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Industries without smokestacks : telecommunication and ICT-based services trade

Frischtak, Cláudio R. - 2017

This paper provides a basic understanding of the nature of emerging key information and communication technologies, and establishes the distance of countries from high-quality access to the internet - the necessary threshold one needs to cross in order to make use of such technologies. The paper...

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Productivity, structural change, and skills dynamics : evidence from a half-century analysis

Asik, Gunes; Karakoc, Ulas; Marouani, Mohamed Ali; … - 2020

This paper explores the contribution of structural change and the skill upgrading of the labour force to productivity. Our growth decomposition based on an original database we built for Tunisia and Turkey shows that productivity is mainly explained by intra-industry changes during the import...

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The role of environmental regulations and innovation in TFP convergence : evidence from manufacturing SMEs in Viet Nam

Nguyen, Huu Thanh Tam; Minh, Nguyen-Khac; Quoc, Tran-Nam - 2017

. It examines the impacts of environmental compliance, and its combination with innovation, on TFP convergence of … environmental treatment - are only significant through their interaction with innovation. The β-convergence in firms' TFP is …

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Importance of technological innovation for SME growth : evidence from India

Hillemane, Bala Subrahmanya Mungila; Mathirajan, M.; … - 2010

, it probes the relationship between innovation and growth of SMEs by (i) estimating a correlation between innovation sales … and sales growth, (ii) calculating innovation sales for high, medium, and low growth innovative SMEs and doing a one …-way ANOVA, and (iii) ascertaining the influence of innovation sales, along with investment growth and employment growth on gross …

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Manufacturing and economic development

Szirmai, Adam - 2011

This paper examines the theoretical and empirical evidence for the hypothesis that manufacturing is the main engine of growth in developing countries. The paper opens with an overview of the main arguments supporting the engine of growth hypothesis and then examines each of these arguments using...

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Aid, growth and private capital flows to Ghana

Osei, Robert Darko - 2012

This study provides an analysis of the aid-private capital flows-growth nexus for Ghana. It is premised on the argument that Ghana's new status as a middle income country plus the start of oil production is bound to result in a reduction in ODA inflows in the long term. However in the short to...

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Emerging patterns of manufacturing structural change

Haraguchi, Nobuya; Rezonja, Gorazd - 2011

In the past, research on changes in relative importance among broad three sectors - ;agriculture, industry, and service - showed general patterns of a country's structural transformation along with economic development. However, there has been devoid of empirical studies investigating in the...

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Thirty years in Africa's development : from structural adjustment to structural transformation?

Addison, Tony - 2015

Africa has come a long way since the economic turmoil of the 1980s, the decade of "structural adjustment". Growth has been strong, yet poverty remains high. Underlying the shortage of good livelihoods and high social inequality is the lack of diversification in Africa's economies-in contrast to...

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Dimensions of African inequality

Bigsten, Arne - 2014

This paper discusses dimensions of inequality in sub-Saharan Africa and their causes. It starts with a review of the empirical evidence about inequality during the colonial period as well as the post-independence era. Then it discusses the forces that determine inequality change, focusing on...

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Ethiopia : an agrarian economy in transition

Seid, Yared; Taffesse, Alemayehu Seyoum; Ali, Seid Nuru - 2015

Ethiopia has experienced rapid economic growth since 2005. Real gross domestic product (GDP) grew at an average rate of 10.5 per cent per annum for the period between 2004-05 and 2013-14. Public investment in key infrastructure and interventions in the agriculture sector have made important...

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