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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 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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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 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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The relationship between housing investment and economic growth in China: A panel analysis using quarterly provincial data

Chen, Jie; Zhu, Aiyong - 2008

China using the quarterly province-level panel data for the period 1999 q1 to 2007 q4. Recently developed econometric … techniques for panel unit root testing and heterogeneous panel cointegration analysis are employed. The empirical results provide …. The variations across regions are detected and reasons for this fact are discussed. Based on the panel ECM, we show that …

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Barriers to accumulation and productivity differences in a two sector growth model

Landon-Lane, John S.; Robertson, Peter E. - 2005

Barriers to investment are often regarded as an important determinant of the variation in international income levels. Nevertheless, in the standard neoclassical growth model, these barriers have only have small effects on per capita incomes. We consider the effects of barriers to accumulation...

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A note on barriers to capital accumulation and income

Landon-Lane, John S.; Robertson, Peter E. - 2005

In this paper we clarify the impact that barriers to capital accumulation can have on a two-sector neoclassical growth model's ability to explain the observed differences in incomes across countries. We show that the effect of barriers to technology adoption in a two sector model is necessarily...

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The real exchange rate and development: Theory, evidence, issues, and challenges

Demir, Firat; Razmi, Arslan - 2020

This paper surveys the theoretical and empirical literature on the effects of the real exchange rate (RER) on international trade, economic development and growth. We summarize the main conceptual issues, discuss the relevance of the RER as an instrument of development policy, provide an...

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