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This paper presents evidence suggesting that the relationship between income and economic structure is shifting over time, with countries across the income distribution uniformly increasing the share of labor in service sectors and an increasingly less stark relationship between manufacturing...
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recently that progress has slowed with an economic environment of lackluster global trade, not enough jobs coupled with skills …
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Empirical evidence indicates that in many developing regions, the extreme poor in more marginal land areas form a "residual" pool of rural labor. Structural transformation in such developing economies depends crucially on labor and land use decisions of these most-vulnerable populations located...
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East Asia, for long the epitome of successful engagement in trade, faces serious challenges: technological change that … access to important markets. A detailed analysis of the evolution of East Asia's trade and trade policy in goods and services … proximate national and regional challenges. The first is the emergence of one East Asian country, China, as a global trade giant …
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that trade and financial integration have sped along at a spectacular pace in the EU11 in the recent past, although trade …
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This paper examines the growth patterns of emerging Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) countries prior to the global financial crisis. The aim is to draw lessons on what policies can best position these countries going forward to enjoy growth without a buildup in macro and...
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Two long-established stylized facts in the urban and development economics literatures are that: (a) a country's level of economic development is strongly positively correlated with its level of urbanization; and (b) a country's level of urbanization is strongly negatively correlated with the...
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This paper studies the role of public policy in promoting industrial transformation from an imitationbased, low-skill economy to an innovation-based, high-skill economy, where technological progress now occurs through the domestic invention of ideas. Industrial transformation is measured by...
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As strategies for achieving sustainable growth in developing countries are re-examined in light of the financial crisis, it is critical to take into account structural change and its corollary, industrial upgrading. Economic literature has devoted a great deal of attention to the analysis of...
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connected poverty trends. The main focus of the authors is understanding, for the case of Brazil, how a trade shock interacts … factor, and trade liberalization, which increases the price incentives to stay in agriculture. A recursive-dynamic computable … decisions. Their analysis shows that trade liberalization does contribute to structural poverty reduction. But unless increased …
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