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the current literature on the growth impacts of trade (by leading partner countries) often neglects the properties of … with considerable impacts of exports to EDE and AdE, exports to China have limited effects on the growth of its partners …. However, the recent financial crisis marks a turning point of China's role as a major driver of growth in the South. Namely …
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We show that the effects of inflation on growth change substantially as the inflation rate rises. Moreover the … inflation first begins to seriously negatively affect growth is around 8% for industrial economies but 3% or less for developing … countries. Marginal growth costs for developing countries then decline significantly above 50% inflation. Failure to account for …
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impact of both trends on long-run economic growth is studied, and results are discussed in light of relevant policy debate. …
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This essay reviews the historical and ongoing role played by trade in sustained high growth and human development … supply-side capacity. Given the strong links between trade-led growth, economic upgrading, and poverty reduction, the paper … argues that trade led economic growth must be prioritised in the post-2015 development agenda. …
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policymakers' beliefs about the impact of capital account liberalization on growth, under the 'Mundell's trilemma constraint. The …
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The hallmark of the recent development and growth literature is a quest to identify institutions that explain a …
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This paper explores the real exchange rate (RER)-economic growth relationship for a wide sample of countries over the … undervalued RER and growth in non-industrial countries, particularly in those with upper-middle and high income levels. In turn …, RER volatility is found harmful for growth. These results holds when testing for asymmetric effects of RER misalignment: a …
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Genetically Modified Crops (GMO foods) have been widely available to farmers since 1996. The Gene Revolution, based on recombinant DNA (rDNA) genetic engineering techniques, is seen by proponents as both supplanting Green Revolution varieties, based on conventional plant breeding techniques, and...
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-income countries. From the perspective of growth theory, the productive-consumption hypothesis is of fundamental interest because it …-consumption hypothesis into a simple endogenous growth model reveals the following implications: (a) the possibility of a poverty-trap, (b … rising saving rate, and (e) transitional dynamics to an asymptotic balanced growth equilibrium. …
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Four stylised facts of economic growth in DCs are set up initially. Despite its obvious simplicity the linear growth … development. Hence, the big diversity in growth rates can partly be explained to represent transitional phenomena. However, if … international symmetry with respect to preferences and technology is supposed, the possible range of different growth rates is …
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