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Does Premature Deindustrialization Matter? The Role of Manufacturing Versus Services in Development
Nayyar, Gaurav - 2018
The shares of manufacturing in value added and employment across a range of developing economies peaked at lower levels of per capita income compared with their high-income, early-industrializer precursors. Based on the statistical analysis of input-output tables and firm-level data, the paper...
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Some Thoughts on Making Long-Term Forecasts for the World Economy
Fardoust, Shahrokh - 2017
the world urgently need to see the big picture if they are to deal with the specific challenges and opportunities they …
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Factor Endowments, Technology, Capital Mobility and the Sources of Comparative Advantage in Manufacturing
Hakobyan, Shushanik - 2017
Using data on net exports and factor endowments for more than 100 countries, this paper studies the relationship between factor endowments and comparative advantage in 28 manufacturing sectors between 1975 and 2010. The authors allow for systematic technological differences across countries,...
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The Internet as a General-Purpose Technology : Firm-Level Evidence from Around the World
Qiang, Christine Zhenwei - 2017
This paper uses firm-level data to assess whether telecommunication services are general-purpose technologies (technologies that benefit a large segment of the economy and have long-lasting effect). It finds that only Internet services are so: firm growth and productivity are much higher when...
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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 …
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Evidence of Development Impact from Institutional Change : A Review of the Evidence on Open Budgeting
Ling, Cristina - 2017
Despite the growing body of literature examining the effectiveness of transparency and accountability initiatives, there remains limited substantiation for whether and how open budgeting contributes to reductions in poverty and improvements in the lives of the poor. This paper reviews available...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012972978
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Civil Society, Public Action and Accountability in Africa
Devarajan, Shantayanan - 2017
This paper examines the potential role of civil society action in increasing state accountability for development in … Sub-Saharan Africa. It further develops the analytical framework of the World Development Report 2004 on accountability … relationships, to emphasize the underlying political economy drivers of accountability and implications for how civil society is …
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Reforming Village-Level Governance Via Horizontal Pressure : Evidence from an Experiment in Zimbabwe
Baldwin, Kate - 2017
pressures from civil society leaders can reform local governance in a context where neither of these mechanisms operates …, one in which only village heads were trained on the framework governing village leadership, and one in which civil society … leaders were trained alongside village heads. The results suggest that horizontal pressure from civil society leaders …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012965677
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Documenting Myanmar's Social Transformation : Insights from Six Rounds of Research on Livelihoods and Social Change in Rural Communities
Pursch, Samuel James - 2017
This paper presents the initial findings from six rounds of research conducted between 2012 and 2016 on livelihoods and social change in rural Myanmar, undertaken as part of the Qualitative Social and Economic Monitoring initiative. These data provide unique insights into the ways in which broad...
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Stationary Bandits, State Capacity, and the Malthusian Transition : The Lasting Impact of the Taiping Rebellion
Xu, Lixin Colin - 2018
The Taiping Rebellion (1851-1864) in China was the deadliest civil war in history. This paper provides evidence that this cataclysmic event significantly shaped the Malthusian transition and long-term development that followed, especially in areas where the experiences that stemmed from the...
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