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Entry barriers and growth : the role of endogenous market structure
Jiang, Helu; Zheng, Yu; Zhu, Lijun - 2023
We use China's growth experience as a laboratory to study how reductions in entry barrier contribute to economic growth by inducing a more competitive market structure. The removal of entry restrictions on private firms in the late 1990s and early 2000s made the Chinese economy more competitive...
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Inclusive growth in India - learning from best practices of selected countries
Aggarwal, Suresh Chand; Satija, Divya; Khan, Shuheb - 2019
harmonise the national development priorities with international efforts and a number of policies, strategies, programmes … in achieving inclusive growth and sustainable development vis-a-vis 17 selected developed and developing countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012006946
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Disasters and the networked economy : a book summary
Albala-Bertrand, José M. - 2014
This document summarizes the thrust of my monograph book Disasters and the Networked Economy (2003, NY: Routledge. 228 pp. ISBN: 978-0-415-66629-9). It is no substitution for the book, but it attempts to make salient the main concepts, explanations and conclusions of it. It does so by first...
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The productivity gap in Latin America : lessons from 50 years of development
Fernández Arias, Eduardo; Rodríguez-Apolinar, Sergio - 2016
This paper combines development accounting exercises with economic theory to assess the importance of total factor … successful development benchmarks are explained by subpar productivity gains rather than slower factor accumulation. The … empirical analysis of the interplay between productivity and accumulation in the process of development suggests that one …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011472124
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On the role of productivity and factor accumulation in economic development in Latin America and the Caribbean
Daude, Christian; Fernández Arias, Eduardo - 2010
This paper combines development and growth accounting exercises with economic theory to estimate the relative … importance of total factor productivity and the accumulation of factors of production in the economic development performance of … Latin America. The region s development performance is assessed by contrast with various alternative benchmarks, both …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010247133
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Government debt and economic growth
Calderón, César A.; Fuentes S. M., J. Rodrigo - 2013
The growth prospects of a nation are stymied by the burden of government debt. This study has two goals: first, it tests whether public debt hinders growth; and, second, it explores whether economic policy ameliorates this effect. A large panel data of countries for 1970–2010 reveal a negative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011303250
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Natural resources dynamics : another look
Di Vita, Giuseppe - 2004
In this paper we study the problem of exhaustible resources and renewable resources in a theoretical endogenous growth framework, under various assumptions. In particular, we consider the hypotheses that those two inputs are or are not technologically perfect substitutes of each other. Moreover,...
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The younger age profile of COVID-19 deaths in developing countries
Chauvin, Juan Pablo; Fowler, Annabelle; Herrera L., Nicolás - 2020
This paper examines why a larger share of COVID-19 deaths occurs among young and middle-aged adults in developing countries than in high-income countries. Using novel data at the country, city, and patient levels, we investigate the drivers of this gap in terms of the key components of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012587538
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Escaping the middle-income trap : a cross-country analysis on the patterns of industrial upgrading
Wang, Lili; Wen, Yi - 2018
With rapid industrial upgrading along the global value chain of manufactured goods, China has transformed, within one generation, from an impoverished agrarian society to a middle-income nation as well as the largest manufacturing powerhouse in the world. This article identifies the pattern of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011782896
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Cultural diversity and economic performance : evidence from European regions
Prarolo, Giovanni; Bellini, Elena; Ottaviano, Gianmarco … - 2009
We investigate the relationship between diversity and productivity in Europe using an original dataset covering the NUTS 3 regions of 12 countries of the EU15 (Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, former Western Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and the United...
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