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The Rise of China and India and the Commodity Boom : Economic and Environmental Implications for Low-Income Countries
Coxhead, Ian; Jayasuriya, Sisira - 2008
The rapid growth of China and, more recently, of India, is having major effects on every facet of the global economy …
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Diaspora and development
Irudaya Rajan, Sebastian (ed.) - 2014 - 1. publ.
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Key Players in Economic Development
Amarasinghe, Ashani - 2020
This paper analyzes the role of networks in the spatial diffusion of local economic shocks in Africa. We show that road and ethnic connectivity are particularly important factors for diffusing economic spillovers over longer distances. We then determine the key players, i.e., which districts are...
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The cost of competitiveness of manufacturing in China and India : an industry and regional perspective
Ark, Bart van (contributor) - 2008
manufacturing sector of China and India. We first provide a comparison between India and China using a broad international … perspective. We find that China has increased its labor productivity to a level above that of India, but due to a somewhat higher … compensation level, China is still somewhat at a disadvantage in terms of unit labor cost in manufacturing relative to India. In …
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Myanmar : unlocking the potential ; a strategy for high, sustained, and inclusive growth
Findlay, Ronald; Park, Cyn-Young; Verbiest, Jean-Pierre A. - 2015
Recognizing the need to formulate policy strategies for the changes it faces, Myanmar started a multifaceted reform process in 2011. But speeding up development requires a multipronged but more coherent strategy targeted at strong and resilient growth, employment generation and, ultimately,...
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Solar power's rise and promise
Pernia, Ernesto M.; Generoso, Maria Janela M. - 2015
Time was when solar energy was facilely dismissed as impractical, inefficient, and pricey. In recent years, however, innovations in technology, regulation, and financing have resulted in remarkable efficiency improvements and price reductions, thereby reversing the skepticism about this...
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Informal Industries and Economic Development : Indian Experience at a Comparative Perspective with the East Asian Countries
Ganguly, Shromona - 2017
by these countries. The paper also compares the characteristics of the informal industries in India with that of the East …
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Toward a Microeconomics of Growth
Burgess, Robin - 2016
how policy has affected manufacturing growth performance in India. They analyze links between the direction of state …
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Sectoral Development Multipliers
Buera, Francisco; Trachter, Nicholas - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
How should industrial policies be directed to reduce distortions and foster economic development? We study this question in a multi-sector model with technology adoption, where the production of goods and modern technologies features rich network structures. We provide simple formulas for the...
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Kuznets' tension in India : two episodes
Ray, Saon; Kar, Sabyasachi - 2020
India. Second, structural transformation did not lead to manufacturing-based industrialization in India due to increasing …
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