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Innovation and Development Around the World, 1960-2000
Lederman, Daniel - 2005
The authors present a database of indicators of innovative activity around the world since the early 1960s. The data … include measures of innovation outcomes as well as variables related to innovation effort. The main indicator of innovation … outputs is patents. The main variables related to innovation inputs are investment in research and development (R&D) and …
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Structural Transformation and Productivity Growth in Africa : Uganda in the 2000s
Ahmed, Sabin - 2017
Uganda?s economy underwent significant structural change in the 2000s whereby the share of non-tradable services in aggregate employment rose by about 7 percentage points at the expense of the production of tradable goods. The process also involved a 12-percentage-point shift in employment away...
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Regional Diversity and Inclusive Growth in Indian Cities
Ghani, Syed Ejaz - 2017
This paper examines the employment growth of Indian districts from 2000 to 2010 in the manufacturing and services sectors. Specialization and diversity metrics that combine industries in both sectors are calculated and related to subsequent job growth. The analysis finds robust and consistent...
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The Changing Way Governments Talk About Poverty and Inequality : Evidence from Two Centuries of Latin American Presidential Speeches
Calvo‐González, Oscar - 2018
This study uses text mining techniques on almost 900 presidential "state-of-the-union" --type speeches from 10 Latin American countries from 1819 to 2016. The paper documents a sharp increase in recent decades in references to poverty and inequality. The study's long-term view shows that the way...
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The Drivers and Impacts of Water Infrastructure Reliability : A Global Analysis of Manufacturing Firms
Islam, Asif - 2018
. This is achieved using firm-level data from World Bank Enterprise Surveys covering more than 16,000 manufacturing firms in …
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Does Premature Deindustrialization Matter? The Role of Manufacturing Versus Services in Development
Nayyar, Gaurav - 2018
, exports, and innovation, are increasingly shared by services sector firms. Yet, a given service subsector is unlikely to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012910837
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Productivity Growth and Job Creation in the Development Process of Industrial Clusters
Sonobe, Tetsushi - 2017
Poor management has long been suspected as a major constraint on job creation in the manufacturing sector in low-income countries. In this sector, countless micro and small enterprises in industrial clusters account for a large share of employment. This paper examines the roles of industrial...
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How Much Does Reducing Inequality Matter for Global Poverty?
Lakner, Christoph - 2019
countries comprising 97 percent of the world's population, this paper simulates a set of scenarios for global poverty from 2018 …
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Nonrenewable Resources, Income Inequality and Per Capita GDP : An Empirical Analysis
Scognamillo, Antonio - 2017
This analysis examines the relationship between nonrenewable resource dependence, economic growth and income inequality. It uses a two-equation system in which the Gini index and GDP per capita are the dependent variables and the stock of nonrenewable resources as a share of national wealth --...
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Global Inequality : The Implications of Thomas Piketty's Capital in the 21st Century
Lakner, Christoph - 2017
In the 2000s, global inequality fell for the first time since the Industrial Revolution, driven by a decline in the dispersion of average incomes across countries. Between 1988 and 2008, a period of rapidly increasing global integration, income growth was largest for the global top 1 percent and...
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