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Does trade cause long-run development? : theory and evidence from countries behind the Suez channel
Gerritse, Michiel - 2015 - Preliminary
Does trade improve institutions and contribute to long run growth? I develop a theory of trade, in which trade liberalization provides incentive to change institutions in two ways. On the one hand, trade leads to specialization according to comparative advantage, expanding the industries that do...
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Education, governance, and trade- and distance-related technology diffusion : accounting for the Latin America-East Asia TFP gap, and the TFP impact of South America's greater dist...
Schiff, Maurice W.; Wang, Yanling - 2017
This paper examines the impact of education, governance and North-South trade- and distance-related technology … preceding the Great Recession (1976-2007) in a new model that integrates models of trade-related and distance …-related international technology diffusion. Our model’s explanatory power is 38% (62%) greater than that of the main trade-related (distance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012120103
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Education, governance, and trade- and distance-related technology diffusion : accounting for the Latin America-East Asia TFP gap, and the TFP impact of South America's greater dist...
Schiff, Maurice W.; Wang, Yanling - 2017
This paper examines the impact of education, governance and North-South trade- and distance-related technology … preceding the Great Recession (1976–2007) in a new model that integrates models of trade-related and distance …-related international technology diffusion. Our model's explanatory power is 38% (62%) greater than that of the main trade-related (distance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011734518
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Population Growth in Zimbabwe : A Threat to Economic Development?
Nyoni, Thabani - 2017
Population growth is one of the fundamental factors that directly determine the supply of human resources which are indisputably critical for production. Population growth plays a pivotal role in country's economic development trajectory. Most economically developed countries have significantly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012952818
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China's march to prosperity : reforms to avoid the middle-income trap
Koen, Vincent; Herd, Richard; Hill, Sam - 2013
China is well-placed to avoid the so-called “middle-income trap” and to continue to converge towards the more advanced economies, even though growth is likely to slow from near double-digit rates in the first decade of this millennium to around 7% at the 2020 horizon. However, in order to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010231008
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Revisiting growth accounting from a trade in value-added perspective
Escaith, Hubert - 2016 - Manuscript date: 24 February 2016
Global Manufacturing and International Supply Chains changed the way trade and international economics are understood today. The present essay builds on recent statistical advances to suggest new ways of looking at the demand and supply side approaches when Global Value Chains (GVCs) -...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011435987
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Revisiting Growth Accounting from a Trade in Value-Added Perspective
Escaith, Hubert - 2016
Global Manufacturing and International Supply Chains changed the way trade and international economics are understood today. Recent statistical advances suggest new ways of looking at the demand and supply side approaches when Global Value Chains (GVCs) — articulating supply and demand chains...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012996189
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Addressing the severity and intensity of poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa : how relevant is the ICT and financial development pathway?
Ofori, Isaac Kwesi; Armah, Mark Kojo; Taale, Francis; … - 2021
The study examines the effectiveness of financial development, financial access, and ICT diffusion in reducing the severity and intensity of poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Using data from the World Bank's World Development Indicators, and the Global Consumption and Income Project...
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The Role of Institutions, Ethnic Fractionalization and Colonization and their Impact on Economic Growth and Development in Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Eritrea and Kenya
Hall, Sarah; Ollimo, Mabel - 2022
In this thesis, we will explore what led to the economic development and growth or lack of, in four African Countries with an imperial history. The countries chosen, have two different modern trajectories, the first of the countries; The Democratic Republic of Congo and Kenya have a history of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013291755
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The effects of the catch-up mechanism on the structural transformation of Sub-Saharan Africa
Ssozi, John; Bbaale, Edward - In: Economies : open access journal 7 (2019) 4/111, pp. 1-27
Structural transformation is one of the processes of productivity growth urgently needed in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). This study uses the catch-up mechanism to analyze how international contacts and domestic absorptive capacity constraints are shaping the pattern of structural transformation in...
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