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This paper studies the cross-country patterns of risky innovation and growth through the lens of international trade. It uses a simple theoretical framework of risky quality upgrading by firms under varying levels of financial development to derive two predictions. First, the mean rate of...
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associated with Suharto's fall had a modest pro-competitive effect on Indonesian manufacturing industries in which his family had …
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This paper uses plant-level, panel data from the Ethiopian manufacturing census to estimate the effects of demand …
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's participation in manufacturing global value chains. Due to lack of reliable data on skilled labor, skilled and unskilled labor … skills and manufacturing global value chains are available for 19 subsectors was constructed. A fixed-effect gravity model … foreign value-added products in their manufacturing exports. Finally, countries that receive net inflows of migrants tend to …
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There is a global trend toward more production, use, and sale of services by manufacturing firms. This phenomenon is … known as the servicification of manufacturing. Services inputs as well as services activities within manufacturing firms … account for over half of the value of manufacturing exports. This paper uses a unique firm-level data set to analyze the link …
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deindustrialization in Sub-Saharan Africa. Recent studies have argued that the turning point of manufacturing output and employment shares …'s manufacturing experience in resource rich countries …
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Africa's linkages in manufacturing global value chains are reasonably high compared with other developing regions … increased sharply in countries that are rich in natural resources. Moreover, the level and dynamics of linkages to manufacturing … cut across broad activity categories, including manufacturing textiles and apparel, metal products, transport equipment …
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This paper assesses the quality of health care across African countries based on health providers' clinical knowledge, their clinic attendance, and drug availability, with a focus on seven conditions accounting for a large share of child and maternal mortality: malaria, tuberculosis, diarrhea,...
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Brazil approaches its 2018 election with an economy that is gradually recovering from the deepest recession in its recent economic history. However, for many Brazilians, the recovery has not yet translated into new and better jobs, or rising incomes. This book explores the drivers of future...
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