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TFPG Controversies, Institutions, and Economic Performance in East Asia
Rodrik, Dani - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997
The controversy over the appropriate partitioning of East Asian growth into accumulation versus technical change has … Asian countries according to their growth performance. A parsimonious specification containing only initial income, initial … education, and institutional quality accounts for virtually all of the variation in the growth performance in the region, even …
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The rush to free trade in the developing world : why so late? Why now? Will it last?
Rodrik, Dani - 1992
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The rush to free trade in the developing world : why so late? Why now? Will it last?
Rodrik, Dani - In: The political economy of reform, (pp. 209-239). 1998
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Imperfect competition, scale economies, and trade policy in developing countries
Rodrik, Dani - In: Trade policy issues and empirical analysis : [papers …, (pp. 109-137). 1988
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The Rush to Free Trade in the Developing World : Why So Late? Why Now? Will it Last?
Rodrik, Dani - 1992
This paper asks why developing country policymakers have been so reluctant to undertake trade reform until the 1980s, and why many of them have embraced open trade policies so wholeheartedly since then. To answer these questions, the paper develops a heuristic index of the "political...
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The Rush to Free Trade in the Developing World : Why so Late? Why Now? Will it Last?
Rodrik, Dani - 2022
This paper asks why developing country policymakers have been so reluctant to undertake trade reform until the 1980s, and why many of them have embraced open trade policies so wholeheartedly since then. To answer these questions, the paper develops a heuristic index of the "political...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324070
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When Ideas Trump Interests: Preferences, Worldviews, and Policy Innovations
Rodrik, Dani - In: Journal of Economic Perspectives 28 (2014) 1, pp. 189-208
Ideas are strangely absent from modern models of political economy. In most prevailing theories of policy choice, the dominant role is instead played by "vested interests"?elites, lobbies, and rent-seeking groups which get their way at the expense of the general public. Any model of political...
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TFPG Controversies, Institutions, and Economic Performance in East Asia
Rodrik, Dani - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1997
The controversy over the appropriate partitioning of East Asian growth into accumulation versus technical change has … Asian countries according to their growth performance. A parsimonious specification containing only initial income, initial … education, and institutional quality accounts for virtually all of the variation in the growth performance in the region, even …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005710525
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Do Low-Income Countries have a High-Wage Option?
Rodrik, Dani - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1993
Poor countries must specialize in standardized. labor-intensive commodities. Middle income countries may have a richer menu of options available to them if their labor force is reasonably well-educated and skilled. This paper is motivated by the possibility that there may exist multiple...
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Why are Some People (and Countries) More Protectionist than Others?
Mayda, Anna Maria; Rodrik, Dani - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
We analyse a rich cross-country data set that contains information on attitudes toward trade as well as a broad range of socio-demographic, and other, indicators. We find that pro-trade preferences are significantly and robustly correlated with an individual's level of human capital, in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005791973