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Structural Change and Economic Development in China and India
Valli, Vittorio; Saccone, Donatella - In: European Journal of Comparative Economics 6 (2009) 1, pp. 101-129
The comparison of the periods of rapid economic growth in China since 1978 and India since 1992 markedly show different patterns of development and structural change. However, both countries experienced some advantages of "relative economic backwardness" and some aspects of the "fordist model of...
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Services-led growth, employment and job quality: A Study of manufacturing and service-sector in urban India
Ramaswamy, K.V.; Agrawal, Tushar - Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR) - 2012
This is a study of employment growth, structure, and job quality outcomes in manufacturing and service-sector in urban India spanning the period 1999-2000 to 2009-10. The context is that of dynamic growth of service-sector in India beginning in the 1990s. This has raised the question whether...
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Manufacturing and Economic Development: Inter-sectoral relationships in Europe, America, Africa and Asia-Pacific, 1999-2006
GUISAN, Maria-Carmen - In: Regional and Sectoral Economic Studies 8 (2008) 2, pp. 73-88
countries of Europe, Eurasia, America, Africa, Middle East, South Asia, East Asia and Pacific for the period 1999-2006, and its … countries in East Asia and other areas. Unfortunately economic policies did not give enough priority to manufacturing activities …
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Rural Industrialization: A Review of Selected Asian Experiences
Johansson, Sara; Ronnås, Per - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 1995
In many developing countries rural industrialization is increasingly perceived to offer an escape from the predicament of diminishing returns to labour in agriculture on the one hand and low employment elasticity in large-scale manufacturing on the other hand. The present study explores the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005649153
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Tariff liberalization and trade specialization: Lessons from India
Alessandrini, Michele; Fattouh, Bassam; Ferrarini, Benno; … - In: Journal of Comparative Economics 39 (2011) 4, pp. 499-513
This paper analyzes the effects of policy reform on the structure of India’s trade in manufactures, from 1990 to 2006. It computes comparative advantage indicators on the basis of disaggregated trade flow data and assesses the effects of trade liberalization on the evolution of India’s...
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Will South Asia Benefit from Pan-Asian Integration?
Wignaraja, Ganeshan - In: South Asia Economic Journal 15 (2014) 2, pp. 175-197
This article examines the gains for South Asian economies from integrating with East Asia and India’s role in this … integration. Computable general equilibrium simulations suggest that a South Asia–East Asia FTA offers the most gains for South … Asia and that India has an incentive to include its neighbours in such an arrangement rather than going it alone with East …
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Growth and Divergence in Manufacturing Performance in South and East Asia
Timmer, M.P.; Szirmai, A. - SOM Research Institute, Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde - 1997
The growth experience in manufacturing in South and East Asian economies is well documented. Less is known about absolute levels of economic performance. This paper presents a star comparison of six Asian economies (China, India, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan) and the USA, the world...
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The Service Sector in Lower-Income Asian Economies
Estrada, Gemma; Acharya, Yubraj; Batten, Aaron; … - Economics and Research Department, Asian Development Bank - 2013
In the past 10 years, the service sector has been a significant contributor to overall economic growth in Bangladesh, Cambodia, Nepal, Papua New Guinea, Uzbekistan, and Viet Nam. Sector growth has been supported by strong industrial growth in some while in others the critical factors have been...
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Structural Transformation in Developed and Developing Countries
Bah, El-hadj - Verein für Socialpolitik, Ausschuss für … - 2009
Differences in key features of the development process across rich and poor countries can provide clues to the sources of the large variation of cross-country income. Kuznets included structural transformation as one of six stylized facts of economic development, nding that developed countries...
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The Service Sector in Asia: Is It an Engine of Growth?
Park, Donghyun; Shin, Kwanho - Economics and Research Department, Asian Development Bank - 2012
The underdeveloped service sector in Asia has the potential to become a new engine of economic growth for developing … Asia, which has traditionally relied on export-oriented manufacturing to power its growth. The central objective of this … role of the service sector as an engine of growth in Asia. However, some Asian countries where the service sector is …
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