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Harms, Philipp; Lorz, Oliver; Urban, Dieter - 2009

Recent contributions on offshoring often assume that firms can freely split their production process into separate … technologically determined sequence of production steps. In our model, cost savings from offshoring fluctuate along the production … from offshoring even if relocating individual steps would be advantageous in terms of offshoring costs, or they may …

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Services Trade and Policy

Francois, Joseph F.; Hoekman, Bernard - 2009

Since the mid-1980s a substantial body of research has taken shape on trade in services. Much of this is inspired by the WTO or regional trade agreements, especially the EU. However, an increasing number of papers focus on the impacts of unilateral services sector liberalization. The literature...

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Cultural assimilation, cultural diffusion and the origin of the wealth of nations

Ashraf, Quamrul; Galor, Oded - 2007

This research argues that variations in the interplay between cultural assimilation and cultural diffusion have played a significant role in giving rise to differential patterns of economic development across the globe. Societies that were geographically less vulnerable to cultural diffusion,...

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Early starts, reversals and catchup in the process of economic development

Chanda, Areendam; Putterman, Louis - 2004

Early states like China, India, Italy and Greece have been experiencing more rapid economic growth in recent decades than have later-comers to agriculture and statehood like New Guinea, the Congo, and Uruguay. We show that more rapid growth by early starters has been the norm in economic...

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Cultural diversity, geographical isolation, and the origin of the wealth of nations

Ashrafy, Quamrul; Galorz, Oded - 2011

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Community Development in Trinidad and Tobago: 1943-1973 : from welfare to patronage

Craig, Susan E. - 1974

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Mainstreaming Migration in Development Agendas : Assessment of South Asian Countries

Wickramasekara, Piyasiri - 2015

There has been increased emphasis on the linkages between international migration and development at international, regional and national levels in the past two decades. This recognition of migration as a developmental tool has generated calls for mainstreaming migration in development with some...

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Scale and the origins of structural change

Buera, Francisco J.; Kaboski, Joseph P. - 2008

Structural change involves a broad set of trends: (i) sectoral reallocations, (ii) rich movements of productive activities between home and market, and (iii) an increase in the scale of productive units. After extending these facts, we develop a model to explain them within a unified framework....

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Patterns in global value chains integration, technology and employment structures in Europe: Country and sectoral evidence

Bontadini, Filippo; Evangelista, Rinaldo; Meliciani, … - 2021

This paper provides empirical evidence on the relationship between patterns of integration in global value chains (GVCs), the 'quality' of such integration in terms of technological capabilities and the structure of employment in European countries and sectors. We study employment shares in...

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Measuring the vertical specialization in Chinese trade

Dean, Judith; Fung, K. C.; Wang, Zhi - 2008

In recent years, two important related developments have transformed the nature of world trade: the explosive growth of Chinese trade, and the growth of vertically specialized trade due to international production fragmentation. The literature in each of these two separate topics is large and...

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