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improving households' risk-management through income diversification. The intervention targeted agricultural households exposed … interventions led to diversification of economic activities and better protection from shocks compared to beneficiaries of the basic …
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the product level. The authors find evidence of diversification followed, in the very last years of the sample period … simple model of adverse selection and quality screening by OECD buyers predicting that diversification happens by "bouts …
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concentration of those imports across origin countries at the product level. The authors find evidence of diversification followed …
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A country's productive structure and competitiveness are harbingers of growth. Growth is a dynamic process based on capabilities that are difficult to define and measure across countries. This paper uses a global measure of fitness (or complexity-weighted diversity of production) as a method to...
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Economic development critically involves diversification and structural transformation?that is, the continued, dynamic … comparison with Sub-Saharan Africa. Much of the progress has occurred through diversification along the ?extensive margin,? that …, diversification into products with longer ?quality ladders? may be a necessary first step before large gains from quality improvement …
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an export diversification strategy should tap the agglomeration economies generated by cities. More specifically …
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The international migration of high-skilled workers may trigger productivity effects at the macro level such that the … productivity, and the wages of skilled workers between pairs of source and destination countries. These strategies aim to address …
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The authors investigate how institutions affect productivity spillovers from foreign direct investment (FDI) to China … tax holidays to foreign direct investment. The authors also explore how productivity spillovers from FDI changed with … promotion policies. Final goods tariffs as well as input tariffs are negatively associated with firm-level productivity. However …
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of product market regulation on mark-ups, firm dynamics, investment, employment, innovation productivity, and output …
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business environment variables at the subnational level in explaining firm employment and productivity growth. The analysis …
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