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suggestion from the combined National Sample Survey and Palanpur data is of a slow process of non-farm diversification, whose … diversification could thus yield significant returns in terms of declining poverty and increased income mobility. The evidence from … diversification away from the farm. A growing literature argues that such a rise in inequality could affect the fabric of village …
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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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hurdles to long-term investment by pension funds, while also proposing international diversification and the creation of … domestic investment opportunities to help portfolio diversification and ultimately improve the delivery of secure, adequate …
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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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Traditional measures of trade diversification only take into account contemporaneous export baskets. These measures … measures of diversification by introducing a novel measure of trade diversification?latent diversification?and proposes a proxy … to measure latent diversification, which is calculated by taking into account the entire history of a country?s exports …
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This paper analyzes Zambian export patterns using a new transaction-level trade data set for the period 1999-2011. The data show that, in international comparison, Zambian exports are exceptionally concentrated (on mining products). This reliance has been increasing in recent years. Zambia's...
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This paper contributes to the predominant diversification debate that has been ongoing in Trinidad and Tobago for more … than three decades. The paper makes a determination of the key impediments to the country's attempts at diversification …. Econometric techniques are applied on panel data to identify the most significant obstacles to economic diversification for a set …
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exports. The results suggest spillovers from tourism into merchandise export performance and diversification and would imply …
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The need for economic diversification receives a great deal of attention in Russia. This paper looks at a way to …, economic diversification means doing new things in new sectors and/or in new markets. The fate of emerging firms, therefore … firms will promote economic diversification. Efforts to help small and medium enterprises may be better spent on removing …
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an export diversification strategy should tap the agglomeration economies generated by cities. More specifically …
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