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How foreign direct investment, trade openness, and productivity affect economic growth : evidence from 90 middle-income countries
Khoa Dang Duong; Nguyen Suu Duy; Phuong Thi Thanh Phan; … - In: Scientific papers of the University of Pardubice 30 (2023) 3, pp. 1-12
This paper examines the relationship between total factor productivity, trade openness, and foreign direct investment to economic growth in 90 middle-income countries from 1990 to 2020. We employ the Generalized Method of Moments with country and period fixed effects to overcome...
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Agricultural Trade Liberalization, Productivity Gain, and Poverty Alleviation : A General Equilibrium Analysis
Belhaj Hassine, Nadia; Robichaud, Veronique; Decaluwe, … - 2018
Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) models have gained continuously in popularity as an empirical tool for assessing the impact of trade liberalization on agricultural growth, poverty, and income distribution. However, conventional models ignore the channels linking technical change in...
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Productivity linkages between services and manufacturing: Firm-level evidence from developing countries
Shepherd, Ben - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
associated with manufacturing productivity. Moreover, the link between productivity in services and manufacturing is particularly … strong for manufacturing firms that are more intensive in their use of services inputs. At the mean level of services input … use in the dataset, a 10% improvement in services productivity is associated with a 0.6% improvement in manufacturing …
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Foreign aid and productivity
Veiderpass, Ann - In: Journal of productivity analysis 43 (2015) 3, pp. 249-258
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Is the Washington consensus dead? : growth, openness, and the great liberation, 1970s - 2000s
Estevadeordal, Antoni; Taylor, Alan M. - 2009
According to the Washington Consensus, developing countries’ growth would benefit from reductions in barriers to trade. However, the empirical basis for judging trade reforms is weak. Econometrics are mostly ad hoc; results are typically not judged against models; policies are poorly measured;...
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The Role of Innovation and Management Practices in Determining Firm Productivity in Developing Economies
Bartz, Wiebke - 2018
This paper compares the effects of management practices and innovation on productivity, using data from the fifth round of the EBRD-WB Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey, a unique firm-level survey covering 30 mostly developing countries in eastern Europe and Central Asia in...
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The Evolution of Comparative Advantage : Measurement and Implications
Levchenko, Andrei A. - 2015
We estimate productivities at the sector level for 72 countries and 5 decades, and examine how they evolve over time in both developed and developing countries. In both country groups, comparative advantage has become weaker: productivity grew systematically faster in sectors that were initially...
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The Evolution of Comparative Advantage : Measurement and Implications
Levchenko, Andrei A. - 2014
We estimate productivities at the sector level for 72 countries and 5 decades, and examine how they evolve over time in both developed and developing countries. In both country groups, comparative advantage has become weaker: productivity grew systematically faster in sectors that were initially...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013043955
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Foreign Aid – Economic Growth Nexus : A Systematic Review of Theory & Evidence from Developing Countries
Nyoni, Thabani - 2017
What is the relationship between foreign aid and economic growth? This is probably one of the most famous questions in the foreign aid – economic growth debate. Whether this question has been sufficiently answered remains to be known. Developing nations have been and continue to be known to...
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Public finance indicators and the value of investment project development: a comparative study of GCC countries
Al-Shubiri, Faris Nasif - In: Journal of business economics and management 20 (2019) 6, pp. 1143-1167
This study aims to identify public financial indicators involved in the investment projects of GCC countries. The data was collected from the IMF and the MEED from 2011-2017. The study measured the impact of public finance based on eight variables and two proxies (national and trade accounts) on...
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