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External economies at the firm level : evidence from Swedish manufacturing
Lindström, Tomas - 1999
Using the method of Caballero and Lyons (1990, 1992), I examine detailed Swedish manufacturing firm-level data on output and factor inputs from 1979 through 1994. Panel regressions show that an increase in aggregate output and inputs appears to raise individual firms production beyond private...
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Evaluating alternatives to GDP as measures of social welfare/progress
Bergh, Jeroen C. J. M. van den; Antal, Miklós - 2014
Proposed alternatives to GDP as a measure of social welfare or human progress are briefly evaluated. Four main categories are considered, namely ISEW and GPI based on corrections of GDP, sustainable or green(ed) GDP, genuine savings/investments and composite indexes. All these alternatives turn...
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Africa's Economic Growth : A Fallacy of Numbers?
Acheampong, Theophilus - 2016
Only a decade ago, Africa’s socioeconomic growth potential was confined to the doldrums and back alley of underdevelopment. Today, the international media continues to be abuzz with common memes such as ‘Africa Rising’ and ‘The Final Investment Frontier’ amongst others. Many writers...
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Totalitarianism, Economic Growth and Corruption
Mohamed, Issam A.W. - 2011
In a strong sense, corruption is an epidemic that coexists with anthropogenic moral structure and behavior. However, the impacts of institutional corruption can lead to distortions in business cycles and drastic damages to a country's collective economic and social performance. In this essay, we...
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Growth, Industrial Externality, Prospect Dynamics, and Well-Being on Markets
Chauvet, Emmanuel - 2020
externalities. Entering the market through that structure leads to designing basic equations of its dynamics and to finding …
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Beyond Accumulation and Technical Progress : Negative Externalities as an Engine of Economic Growth
Bartolini, Stefano - 2008
tertium movens of growth: negative externalities. These externalities can be of two kinds. The first are positional … externalities, i.e. those due the fact that individuals may be interested in relative not absolute position. The second kind of … negative externalities are those which reduce free goods. Some recent models, both evolutionary or with optimising agents, show …
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Modi's "Make in India" industrial reform policy and East Asian flying-geese paradigm
Nam, Chang-woon; Nam, Sumin; Steinhoff, Peter - 2017
-reduction-oriented labour-industry promotion vs overall productivity increase; and complementary role of IT services for industrial …
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Inside the virtuous cycle between productivity, profitability, investment and corporate growth : an anatomy of China industrialization
Yu, Xiaodan; Dosi, Giovanni; Grazzi, Marco; Lei, Jiasu - 2015
This article explores the dynamics of market selection by investigating of the relationships linking productivity, profitability, investment and growth, based on China's manufacturing firm-level dataset over the period 1998 - 2007. First, we find that productivity variations, rather than...
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From commodity booms to economic miracles : why Southeast Asian industry lagged behind
Bassino, Jean-Pascal; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2015
Except for the Philippines between 1896 and 1939, Southeast Asia was never part of the century-long East Asian industrial catching up until after World War II. Before the 1950s, Southeast Asian manufacturing hardly grew at all: while commodity export processing did grow fast, import-competing...
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Industrial development and growth in Nigeria : lessons and challenges
Chete, Louis N.; Adeoti, J. O.; Adeyinka, F. M.; … - 2014
The structure of the Nigerian economy is typical of an underdeveloped country. The primary sector, in particular, the oil and gas sector, dominates the gross domestic product accounting for over 95 per cent of export earnings and about 85 per cent of government revenue between 2011 and 2012. The...
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