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The formation of new firms is an important determinant of economic development and the industrial organization literature highlights agglomeration as one of the main factors affecting the formation and scale of operations of new firms. This paper is one of the first to use developing country...
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and the most vulnerable to these price shocks are the poorest segments of society. In countries like Pakistan, the … in Pakistan. Simulated food and energy price shocks present some important results: First, the impact of food price … populations. Finally, food price inflation can lead to significant increases in Pakistani poverty levels: For Pakistan as a whole …
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understanding of the measures, determinants, and impacts of new processes remains limited. Drawing on unique data from Pakistan, we … analyzed five different measures of process innovation output: cost reductions, defect rate reductions, reductions in …
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This paper studies technology adoption in a cluster of soccer-ball producers in Sialkot, Pakistan. We invented a new …
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international conditions (such as the real exchange rates of Pakistan’s major trading partners and tariff rates). The results show …
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and the most vulnerable to these price shocks are the poorest segments of society. In countries like Pakistan, the … in Pakistan. Simulated food and energy price shocks present some important results: First, the impact of food price … populations. Finally, food price inflation can lead to significant increases in Pakistani poverty levels: For Pakistan as a whole …
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boost Pakistan’s exports (preferably before future trade agreements are signed, which could otherwise damage potential …
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This paper looks at the economy-wide demand and the firm level demand for electricity in Pakistan. The economy wide …’s Enterprise Survey for Pakistan and finds that the price elasticity of demand for electricity across all firms is approximately -0 …
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and the most vulnerable to these price shocks are the poorest segments of society. In countries like Pakistan, the … in Pakistan. Simulated food and energy price shocks present some important results: First, the impact of food price … populations. Finally, food price inflation can lead to significant increases in Pakistani poverty levels: For Pakistan as a whole …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010562188
, Pakistan. We examine descriptive statistics on patron–client interaction and correlations between household characteristics and …
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