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–2007 to measure the growth of China's provincial import and export for both extensive and intensive margins. Extensive margin … reflecting the level of variety becomes a significant factor for China's export and is slightly higher than intensive margin. The … empirical results indicate that emerging industrial countries have gradually become the important new markets for China's export …
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This paper assesses productivity trends in Canada vis-a-vis the United States from two perspectives. The first one is … based on estimates of total factor productivity. The second one decomposes productivity growth into two sources: investment … underlying cause of the pickup in productivity in Canada and the narrowing of the productivity gap with the United States. …
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While production of ICT equipment plays a subordinate role for economic growth in most of these countries, they do benefit from capital deepening arising from falling prices of ICT equipment. Adapting established growth accounting approaches to the data environment of low-income countries, we...
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studies; looks at agricultural incomes, wages, and other poverty-linked economic indicators; examines impact of the export …-oriented pattern of economic growth, particularly on small farm productivity, food production, land tenure and rural employment …
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distribution, 1948-1980; considers exports, dependence, production, productivity, wages, labour force participation, etc. By …
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This paper analyzes the dynamic interactions between the precision of information, technological development, and welfare within an overlapping generations model. More precise information about idiosyncratic production shocks has ambiguous effects on technological progress and welfare, which...
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This paper studies the impact of information and communication technologies (ICT), especially mobile phone rollout, on economic growth in a sample of African countries from 1988 to 2007. Further, we investigate whether financial inclusion is one of the channels through which mobile phone...
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China and India have emerged as highly dynamic economies in recent years. In the Asian region their growth and economic … dependence of India and China is mostly on the industrial intermediate sector, which is critical for their exports. It is … technology is examined. India and China have made steady progress in frontier technologies such as ICT and biotechnology, and …
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The aim of this article is to present empirical estimates about the impact of human capital on labor productivity … convergence of labor productivity was used. The basic difference between both methodological frameworks is in the bias of the … exact methodology for measuring its value. The results about the impact of human capital on labor productivity are therefore …
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economic growth, productivity, competitiveness, collective bargaining and industrial policy. Bibliography and statistical …
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