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Investment inflows and sustainable development in a natural resource-dependent economy
Antoci, Angelo; Russu, Paolo; Ticci, Elisa - Dipartimento di Economia Politica e Statistics, … - 2013
which negatively affect labor productivity in local natural resource-dependent activities. In our paper, we consider a small …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010641400
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Structural change, economic growth and environmental dynamics with heterogeneous agents
Antoci, Angelo; Russu, Paolo; Ticci, Elisa - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This paper presents a model which takes into account two main factors that have been partially neglected by the economic development literature: the environmental externalities of human activities and agents' heterogeneity in terms of asset endowment and, consequently, in terms of income source...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835828
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Distributive impact of structural change: does environmental degradation matter?
Antoci, Angelo; Russu, Paolo; Ticci, Elisa - Dipartimento di Scienze per l'Economia e l'Impresa, … - 2008
two classes (the rich and the poor) and characterized by the following stylized facts: income and productivity of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005449522
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Environmental externalities and immiserizing structural changes in an economy with heterogeneous agents
Antoci, Angelo; Russu, Paolo; Ticci, Elisa - In: Ecological Economics 81 (2012) C, pp. 80-91
if productivity of the physical capital-intensive sector increases but its rate of environmental impact remains …
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The interaction between natural resources- and physical capital-intensive sectors in a behavioral model of economic growth
Antoci, Angelo; Russu, Paolo; Sordi, Serena; Ticci, Elisa - Dipartimento di Economia Politica e Statistics, … - 2012
In this paper we examine the role played by environmental externalities in shaping the dynamics of a small open economy with two sectors (a farming sector and an industrial one), free inter-sectoral labor mobility and heterogeneous agents (workers/farmers and industrial entrepreneurs). We find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010615430
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Industrialization and environmental externalities in a Solow-type model
Antoci, Angelo; Russu, Paolo; Sordi, Serena; Ticci, Elisa - In: Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 47 (2014) C, pp. 211-224
In this paper we examine the role played by environmental externalities in shaping the dynamics of an economy with two sectors (a farming sector and an industrial one), free inter-sectoral labor mobility and heterogeneous agents (workers/farmers and industrial entrepreneurs). We find that, in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011051979
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Windfalls, structural transformation and specialization
Kuralbayeva, Karlygash; Stefanski, Radoslaw - In: Journal of International Economics 90 (2013) 2, pp. 273-301
already employed there. Resource-induced structural transformation thus results in higher productivity in manufacturing and … lower productivity in non-manufacturing. We construct and calibrate a two-sector, open economy model of self-selection and … magnitude of sectoral employment and productivity differences between resource-rich and resource-poor regions. The model implies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010679149
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Towards an Inclusive Model of Sustainable Growth
Roseta-Palma, Catarina; Ferreira-Lopes, Alexandra; … - Unidade de Investigação em Desenvolvimento … - 2008
Models of economic growth are typically based on the use of one or more stocks of productive assets to create goods for utility-generating consumption. The roles played by man-made capital, natural capital and human capital have been explored, often separately, in the literature, and more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010561316
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La reducción de la pobreza y el crecimiento económico ambientalmente sostenible: el caso de América Latina y el Caribe
Yamada, Gustavo - Departamento Académico de Economía, Universidad del … - 2002
La reducción de la pobreza, que afecta a más de un tercio de la población en América Latina y el Caribe, es un objetivo prioritario de las políticas públicas. A partir de un breve diagnóstico de la pobreza, este artículo discute los elementos de una estrategia integral para reducirla,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010842548
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The Agricultural Productivity Gap
Gollin, Douglas; Lagakos, David; Waugh, Michael E. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
productivity gap" suggests that labor is greatly misallocated across sectors. In this paper, we draw on new micro evidence to ask …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950838