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Growing like India: The unequal effects of service-led growth

Fan, Tianyu; Peters, Michael; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - 2023

Structural transformation in most currently developing countries takes the form of a rapid rise in services but limited industrialization. In this paper, we propose a new methodology to structurally estimate productivity growth in service industries that circumvents the notorious difficulties in...

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What Can Be Learned About the Economies of China and India from Purchasing Power Comparisons?

Heston, Alan - 2008

Comparisons of India and China have been made for over 50 years. This paper focuses on purchasing power estimates in … China and India in the 2005 round of the UN International Comparison Programme (ICP) that was coordinated by the World Bank … currencies and real product per capita for 146 countries, and the results for China and India are discussed in the context of the …

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Childhood mortality and economic growth

Bhalotra, Sonia - 2006

This paper investigates the extent to which the decline in child mortality over the last three decades can be attributed to economic growth. In doing this, it exploits the considerable variation in growth over this period, across states and over time. The analysis is able to condition upon a...

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The Challenge of Structural Change in APEC Economies

Buckle, Robert A; Cruickshank, Amy A - 2007

Improving New Zealand's economic performance is one of the key outcomes driving the work of the New Zealand Treasury and international connections are an important means of achieving that. The promotion of sustainable economic growth and improved living standards in the Asia-Pacific region...

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Basic Research, Openness, and Convergence

Gersbach, Hans; Schneider, Maik T.; Schneller, Olivier - 2010

We study a model where economic growth is fueled by public basic-research investment and the importation of leading technology from foreign countries. In each period, the government chooses the amount of basic research, balancing the cost and benefits of stimulating growth through both channels....

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A Romerian Contribution to the Empirics of Economic Growth

Sağlam, Bahar Bayraktar; Yetkiner, I. Hakan - 2012

Mankiw Romer and Weil (1992) made the Solovian set up widely-used to test the determinants of economic growth and the speed of convergence. Subsequently, in almost all convergence studies, an exogenously growing technology is assumed and this component is treated as part of the constant term. In...

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Defense Spending and Economic Growth:A Theoretical Manifestation for Empirical Studies

Yetkiner, I. Hakan - 2012

Defense literature is still in need of a theoretical framework in the neoclassical sense, in regard to empirical research on the relationship between defense spending and economic growth. In this respect, Dunne, Smith and Willenbockel (2005), although not without technical problems, represented...

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The Limiting Distribution of Production in Integrated Economies: Evidence from US States and EU Countries

Bowen, Harry P.; Munandar, Haris; Viaene, Jean-Marie - 2005

We show that in a fully integrated economy, in which there is free mobility of goods and factors, each member’s share of total output will equal its shares of total stocks of productive factors (i.e., physical and human capital). We label this result the equal-share relationship. This...

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Reforms, growth and persistence of gender gap: Recent evidence from private school enrolment in India

Maitra, Pushkar; Pal, Sarmistha; Sharma, Anurag - 2011

This paper examines the extent of gender gap in private school enrolment in India, an issue that has not been …

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Is the elephant stepping on its trunk? The problem of India´s unbalanced growth

Douhan, Robin; Nordberg, Anders - 2007

It is often assumed that recent success in the high-technology software industry will lead India's development. However … development pattern in India. …

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