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Engineers, Innovative Capacity and Development in the Americas
Maloney, William F. - 2017
This paper offers the first evidence on the prevalence of a central actor in modern growth theory?the engineer. Using newly collected sub-national, and international data as well as historical case studies, it then argues that differences in innovative capacity, captured by the density of...
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Equilibrium Fictions : A Cognitive Approach to Societal Rigidity
Hoff, Karla - 2017
This paper assesses the role of ideas in economic change, combining economic and historical analysis with insights from psychology, sociology and anthropology. Belief systems shape the system of categories ( "pre-confirmatory bias" ) and perceptions (confirmatory bias), and are themselves...
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Can the Knowledge Capital Model Explain Foreign Investment in Services? The Case of Singapore
Chellaraj, Gnanaraj - 2018
Singapore has been a powerful magnet for foreign direct investment and in recent years has also made significant … Singapore's investment using the Knowledge-Capital Model and compares the impact of skill endowments on manufacturing and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012937397
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Building a Competitive City Through Innovation and Global Knowledge : The Case of Sino-Singapore Suzhou Industrial Park
Zeng, Douglas Zhihua - 2017
from a planned to a market economy, and they are a prime example of China's pragmatic and experimental approach to reforms … township developed in the early 1990s through a Sino-Singapore partnership. It is successful not just in the economic sense … intended to examine the success factors and key lessons of the Sino-Singapore Suzhou Industrial Park, which can be useful for …
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Long-Term Growth Scenarios for Bangladesh
Sinha, Rishabh - 2017
forward. A simple growth model calibrated to the Bangladesh economy is used to analyze various growth scenarios. The main …
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Financial Inclusion and Inclusive Growth : What Does it Mean for Sri Lanka?
Arandara, Rathnija - 2020
This paper uses data from the National Financial Inclusion Survey 2018 to understand the determinants of financial inclusion in Sri Lanka and their significance for inclusive growth. The findings highlight that gender, education, and formal employment are important determinants of financial...
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Policy Challenges for Emerging and Developing Economies : Lessons from the Past Decade
Ruch, Franz Ulrich - 2020
The 2009 global recession demonstrated, once again, the importance of crisis prevention as well as the critical need for preserving policy room so that emerging market and developing economies (EMDEs) can act when their economies are hit by shocks. And now, with the global growth outlook still...
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Subdued Potential Growth : Sources and Remedies
Kilic Celik, Sinem - 2020
Global potential output growth has been flagging. At 2.5 percent in 2013-17, post-crisis potential growth is 0.5 percentage point below its longer-term average and 0.9 percentage point below its average a decade ago. Compared with a decade ago, potential growth has declined 0.8 percentage point...
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Emerging and Developing Economies : Ten Years after the Global Recession
Kose, M. Ayhan - 2020
, they now appear less well placed to cope with the substantial downside risks facing the global economy. In many EMDEs, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012841602
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Trade Integration, Export Patterns, and Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa
Calderón, César - 2020
This paper examines systematically the growth effects of trade integration in Sub-Saharan Africa. It complements and improves upon the empirical literature in two aspects: first, it jointly estimates the impact of different dimensions of trade integration, namely, trade volumes, export/trade...
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