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Eichengreen, Barry; Gupta, Poonam - 2009

The positive association between the service sector share of output and per capita income is one of the best-known regularities in all of growth and development economics. Yet there is less than complete agreement on the nature of that association. Here we identify two waves of service sector...

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Tourism and development : a recent phenomenon built on old (institutional) roots?

Brau, Rinaldo; Di Liberto, Adriana; Pigliaru, Francesco - 2010

Is tourism an opportunity for lagging countries in the elusive quest for growth (Easterly, 2002)? Recent empirical evidence suggests that the answer is a cautious yes. Aggregate cross-country data show that tourism specialization is likely to be associated with higher per capita GDP growth rates...

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How fast are small tourism countries growing? : the 1980 - 2003 evidence

Brau, Rinaldo (contributor); Lanza, Alessandro (contributor) - 2007

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The service sector as India's road to economic growth?

Eichengreen, Barry; Gupta, Poonam - 2010

Among fast growing developing countries, India is distinctive for the role of the service sector. However, sceptics have raised doubts about both the quality and sustainability of the increase in service sector activity and its implications for economic development. Using National Accounts...

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Decentralization, social capital and regional convergence

Mauro, Luciano; Pigliaru, Francesco - 2013

By studying the interaction between social capital and decentralization, we show that political decentralization can be a source of divergence across heterogeneous regions. In particular, we claim that since the local endowments of social capital display their effect on the economy mainly...

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Can countries rely on foreign saving for investment and economic development?

Cavallo, Eduardo A.; Eichengreen, Barry; Panizza, Ugo - 2016

A surprisingly large number of countries have been able to finance a significant fraction of domestic investment using foreign finance for extended periods. While many of these episodes are in low-income countries where official finance is more important than private finance, this paper also...

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Dollarization and economic performance : what do we really know?

Edwards, Sebastian; Magendzo W., Igal - 2002

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Global universal basic skills: current deficits and implications for world development

Gust, Sarah; Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger - 2022

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Italy's National Recovery and Resilient Plan : will it narrow the North-South productivity gap?

Mauro, Luciano; Pigliaru, Francesco - 2023

social capital, local investment management diminishes efficiency due to prevalent misappropriation. In contrast, centralized … management enhances the effectiveness of public action in these situations. The NRRP's overall effect therefore relies on the … government level to which investment management is assigned. Our quantitative exercises show that compared to centralization …

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How fast are the tourism countries growing? : the cross-country evidence

Brau, Rinaldo; Lanza, Alessandro; Pigliaru, Francesco - 2003

Specializing in tourism is an option available to a number of less developed countries and regions. But is it a good option? To answer this question, we have compared the relative growth performance of 14 tourism countries within a sample of 143 countries, observed during the period 1980-95....

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