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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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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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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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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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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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This paper examines the role of changes in sectoral productivity gaps over time in accounting for growth realized by countries over the past few decades. To quantify the productivity impact of the sectoral gaps, a simple model of resource allocation is developed in which the gaps arise due to...
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Governments around the world assign top priority to job creation and productivity growth. Developing the right skills among potential and actual workers not only makes capital and labor more productive, it also makes the adoption and invention of new technologies possible. Recent research also...
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