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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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Nonfarm activity plays an increasingly important role in rural household income. Based on data from the Living Standards Measurement Study in the provinces of Hebei and Liaoning, the authors study the distribution of nonfarm income in rural China. First, they assume nonfarm income as an...
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other firm characteristics explain the geographical orientation of firms' exports and the overall market diversification of … African manufacturing exports. The degree of market diversification, measured by the number of export destinations, is highly …
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Facing a youth bulge - a large influx of a young labor force - the Pakistani economy needs to create more jobs by taking advantage of this relatively well-educated young labor force. Yet, the educated young labor force suffers a higher unemployment rate, and there is a concern that the current...
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Economists and other social scientists are increasingly using big data analytics to address longstanding economic questions and complement existing information sources. Big data produced by online platforms can yield a wealth of diverse, highly granular, multidimensional information with a...
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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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