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Demography, capital accumulation and growth
Stehrer, Robert; Tverdostup, Maryna - 2022
Europe will be challenged by demographic changes over the next few decades, even under favourable assumptions about fertility and migration, but the economic effects are not yet fully understood. This paper studies the effects of population ageing on economic growth, capital deepening and...
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Human capital distribution and the transition from stagnation to growth
Carillo, Mario F. - 2021
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Escaping the middle-income trap : a cross-country analysis on the patterns of industrial upgrading
Wang, Lili; Wen, Yi - 2018
developed western world by going through three developmental stages sequentially; namely, a proto-industrialization in the rural …, economies stuck in the low-income trap or middle-income trap did not follow the above sequential stages of industrialization …. For example, many Eastern European and Latin American countries after WWII jumped to the stage of heavy industrialization …
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Demography, growth and robots in advanced and emerging economies
Lanzafame, Matteo - 2021
This paper provides estimates of the impact of demographic change on labor productivity growth, relying on annual data over 1961-2018 for a panel f 90 advanced and emerging economies. We find that increases in both the young and old population shares have significantly negative effects on labor...
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Fertility transitions in developing countries : convergence, timing, and causes
Papagni, Erasmo - 2019
This paper studies the dynamics of fertility in 180 countries in the period 1950-2015 and investigates the determinants of the onset of fertility transitions. We find evidence of convergence in three groups of countries, and distinguish the transitioning countries from those not transitioning....
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Optimal clean energy R&D investments under uncertainty
Marangoni, Giacomo; De Maere d'Aertrycke, Gauthier; … - 2017
The availability of technology plays a major role in the feasibility and costs of climate policy. Nonetheless, technological change is highly uncertain and capital intensive, requiring risky efforts in research and development of clean energy technologies. In this paper, we introduce a two-track...
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Emerging through technological capability : an overview of India's technological trajectory
Ray, Amit Shovon (contributor) - 2008
India’s emergence in the world economy over the last decade, has often, in popular discourse, been attributed, at least to a large extent, to its sustained efforts towards technological learning and capacity building. In this paper we present an overview of India’s technological trajectory...
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Neoclassical growth, environment and technological change: the environmental Kuznets curve
Rubio, Santiago J.; García, J. R.; Hueso, J. L. - 2009 - Fourth version: May 2009
The paper investigates socially optimal patterns of economic growth and environmental quality in a neoclassical growth model with endogenous technological progress. In the model, the environmental quality affects positively not only to utility but also to production. However, cleaner...
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Productivity and the performance of agriculture in Latin America and the Caribbean : from the lost decade to the commodity boom
Nin, Alejandro; Falconi, César A.; Ludena, Carlos E.; … - 2015
This study analyzes the performance of Latin America and the Caribbean's agriculture between 1980 and 2012 looking at the contribution of inputs, and total factor productivity (TFP) to growth in output per worker. A growth accounting approach that goes along the lines of neoclassical growth...
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China's pursuit of environmentally sustainable development : harnessing the new engine of technological innovation
Jin, Wei; Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2016
Whether China continues its business-as-usual investment-driven, environment-polluting growth pattern or adopts an investment and innovation-driven, environmentally sustainable development holds important implications for both national and global environmental governance. Building on a...
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