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Beyond industrialization: New approaches to development strategy based on the service sector
Sheehan, Peter - 2008
Industrialization occupies a central place in the rich tapestry of development theory and practice. Although that place … income per capita can only occur through industrialization. This paper argues that it is becoming increasingly difficult for … most developing countries to achieve rapid growth through industrialization, and especially through export oriented …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273465
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Manufacturing Matters...but It's the Jobs That Count
Felipe, Jesus; Mehta, Aashish; Rhee, Changyong - 2014
decline have fallen as obviously. These results are consistent with the idea that industrialization in employment terms has … been more important for eventual prosperity than has industrialization in output terms; and that high manufacturing … industrialization may have become more difficult. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011432708
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Information, coordination, and the industrialization of countries
Englmaier, Florian; Reisinger, Markus - 2006
The industrialization process of a country is often plagued by a failure to coordinate investment decisions. Using the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261419
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Inflation As Restructuring. A Theoretical and Empirical Account of the U.S. Experience
Nitzan, Jonathan - 1992
The thesis offers a new framework for inflation as a process of restructuring. Contrary to existing theories of inflation, which tend to take structure and institutions as given for the purpose of analysis, we argue that inflation could be understood only in terms of ongoing structural and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011646704
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Structural Change, Wage Formation and Economic Growth in Low-Income Countries
Bender, Dieter - 2012
This paper analyzes the effects of structural change on the rates of growth of wages, employment and per-capita income in low-income countries, their dualistic structure shown by a Lewis-type two-sector model. Structural change is measured by the varying shares of sectoral employment in total...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011918482
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Learning from Other Economies - for example from Somewhere Down Under
Freeman, Richard B. - In: CESifo DICE Report 05 (2007) 3, pp. 33-37
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Two-gap models: Post-keynesian death and neoclassical rebirth
Bender, Dieter; Löwenstein, Wilhelm - 2005
(provided that all capital imports are used for investment financing) but such strategy in general turn out to be immiserizing. …
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What is infrastructure?
Buhr, Walter - 2003
After having pointed out the diverse uses of the term infrastructure in the literature on the market-economy, the different categories of infrastructure will be described. The argument in this context is that the classification of infrastructure suggested by Jochimsen has proved useful:...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010322069
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Looking at the other side of the coin: The relationship between classical growth and early development theories
Perälä, Maiju - 2003
This paper extends the history of thought narrative on Allyn Young to recognize the close relationship that the classical growth theory has with the early development theory, as Young’s externalities-fuelled, cumulative growth process influenced the theoretical thought of the early development...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010279213
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The impact of the socio-cultural structures of the Kambata, Ethiopia on their economic development: An interdisciplinary and cultures comparing approach to discuss the issue of eco...
Gebrewold, Belachew - 2002
In seiner Dissertation "The Impact of the Socio-Cultural Structures of the Kambata/Ethiopia on their Economic Development. An interdisciplinary and cultures comparing approach to discuss the issue of economic developement" beschäftigte sich Herr Gebrewold mit der Frage nach den sozialen und...
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