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In this study we use data on the productive structure of Mexican states to compute a measure of economic complexity for each, as well as for each economic activity conducted there. The results show that the states differ in terms of the economic activities in which they specialize and,...
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disparities in Mexico over the last two decades. It is highlighted that the passage from an import substitution system to … of oil and raw materials and proximity to Mexico City. Economic liberalization and regional integration in NAFTA has been … related to regional divergence, a reduction of the importance of Mexico City as the main market and to the emergence of an …
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This paper examines the process of trade liberalisation in Mexico, particularly since the mid-1980s and the signing of …
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This report constitutes the first deliverable of the project ENGIME - Economic Growth and Innovation in Multicultural Environments, financed by the European Commission - FP5 - Key Action: Improving socio-economic knowledge base. Contract HPSE-CT2001-50007
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We study the dispersion in rates of provincial economic- and TFP growth in China. Our results show that regional growth patterns can be understood as a function of several interrelated factors, which include investment in physical capital, human capital, and infrastructure capital; the infusion...
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We rank 5,107 products and 124 countries according to the Hidalgo and Hausmann (2009) measures of complexity. We find that: (1) the most complex products are in machinery, chemicals, and metals, while the least complex products are raw materials and commodities, wood, textiles, and agricultural...
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This paper shows that the evolution of the level of Mexico real and real per capita output between 1895 and 2008 can be … results indicate that for Mexico real and real per capita GDP, there are four stationary growth paths, separated by three …
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With this paper we seek to contribute to the literature on the relation between finance and growth. We argue that most studies in the field fail to measure the quality of financial intermediation but rather resort to using proxies on the size of financial systems. Moreover, cross-country...
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Exploiting a novel geo-referenced data set of population diversity across ethnic groups, this research advances the … hypothesis and empirically establishes that variation in population diversity across human societies, as determined in the course …-colonial autocratic institutions within ethnic groups and the emergence of autocratic institutions across countries. Diversity has …
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research are discussed.A recent and well known paper, Bove and Elia (2017), argues that migrants' diversity, as captured by the … and methodology, we show that the impact of diversity cannot be distinguished from that of migration itself due to the … very high correlation among the corresponding variables. Also, if one disentangles migration from diversity, following …
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