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Several studies have explored the relationship between economy-level crime rates or individual-level crime and economic growth. However, few studies have examined the relationship between economic growth and crime against firms. This study uses data for about 12,000 firms in 27 developing...
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Recent economic and political developments have highlighted a challenge shared across the Arab region of generating employment, promoting inclusive growth, and improving competitiveness. In the short run, weakened macroeconomic fundamentals in the developing economies of the Middle East and...
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. While small firms (<20 employees) have the smallest share of aggregate employment, the SME sector's (<100 employees …
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With urban industrialization on the scale achieved by East Asian economies looking increasingly less plausible, small economies in Africa need an alternative strategic approach to long-term growth. The purpose of this paper is to identify a growth strategy with the greatest potential for small,...
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This paper assesses the impact of the rise of China on the trade of Latin American and Caribbean economies. The study …, Honduras, Mexico, and Paraguay. The paper uses the index and a model of labor mobility, to calculate the impact of China …'s growth on labor markets in Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico. The resulting evidence suggests that the rise of China has had …
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This paper explores the economic impacts of two related tracks of China's expected transformation?economic slowdown and … on Sub-Saharan African countries. The paper finds that an average annual slowdown of gross domestic product in China of 1 … globally by 0.6 percent relative to the past trends scenario by 2030. However, if China's transformation also entails …
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Hong Kong SAR, China, and Macau SAR, China, and the second-nature advantages as first-movers in the reforms in attracting …
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and opportunities for Latin America that come from China's rise, and draws lessons from New Structural Economics and the … to avoid further de-industrialization arising from the competitive pressures of the rise of China, broaden the base for …
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emerging market countries such as China, India and Brazil are also engaged in industrial upgrading but with a critical … difference. In particular, because of its sheer size, China has absorbed nearly all labor-intensive jobs and become the world …?s largest exporter of labor-intensive products. The current view is that China?s dominance hinders poor countries from …
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-level panel dataset obtained from China. The results show that economic structure, development strategy and environmental …
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