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A turning point for the service sector in Thailand

Koonnathamdee, Pracha - 2013

discussed to determine significant service activities. Wholesale and retail trade, tourism and travel-related activities …

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Chapter 47 Economic Development and the Decline of Agricultural Employment

Foster, Andrew D.; Rosenzweig, Mark R. - In: Handbook of development economics : volume 4, (pp. 3051-3083). 2007

This chapter considers the linkages between agricultural development and rural non-farm activities. The chapter is motivated by growing evidence that non-farm activities provide an increasingly important share of rural incomes in many low-income questions, questions about whether increasing...

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The political economy of structural transformation in African cities : insights from the Deals and Development framework

Sen, Kunal - 2024

transformation. This paper provides a political economy analysis of the lack of structural transformation in African cities, drawing … on the Deals and Development framework. It argues that limited structural transformation in African cities is due to the … nature of state-business relations in the cities, where manufacturing and tradeable services firms in the formal sector face …

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Die ökonomische und wirtschaftspolitische Entwicklung Lateinamerikas nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg

Foders, Federico - 2001

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Die ökonomische und wirtschaftspolitische Entwicklung Lateinamerikas nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg

Foders, Federico - 2001

reviews industrial and trade policies, macroeconomic stabilization and institutional development in Latin American countries …

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Political Predation and Economic Development

Biais, Bruno; Bates, Robert H.; Azam, Jean-Paul - 2005

Economic growth occurs as resources are reallocated from the traditional sector to the more productive modern sector. Yet, the latter is more vulnerable to political predation. Hence, political risk hinders development. We analyze a politico-economic game between citizens and governments, whose...

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Growth and stagnation in a dual economy : the case of Brazil

Feijó, Carmem; Lamonica, Marcos Tostes; Lima, Sergiany … - In: PSL quarterly review 75 (2022) 301, pp. 119-138

The aim of the present article is to further develop the line of research initiated by Oreiroet al. (2019) by expanding the database used to calculate the EQI and the EQG, but also to control the effects of variables other than the EQG, such as the amount of capital per worker, over the PCIG and...

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Alternative Development Strategies for Azerbaijan Economy and Sectoral Analysis

Aliyev, Dr. Fuzuli - 2013

The paper outlines aspects of economic growth after oil exports in Azerbaijan, and allocation of oil income to develop main sectors of economy: agriculture, tourism, power engineering, machine building industry, food industry and energy security. From oil contracts during 2008-2015 years the...

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Political power, resistance to technological change and economic development : evidence from the 19th century Sweden

Tyrefors, Björn; Lindgren, Erik; Pettersson-Lidbom, Per - 2017 - This version: June 16, 2017

We analyze investment decisions when information is costly, with and without delegation to an agent. We use a rational-inattention model and compare it with a canonical signal-extraction model. We identify three "investment conditions". In "sour" conditions, no information is acquired and no...

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Railroads, Technology Adoption, and Modern Economic Development : Evidence from Japan

Yamasaki, Junichi - 2019

Railroad access may accelerate technological progress in the industrial sector and induce structural change and urbanization - the two common features of modern economic development. By digitizing novel datasets of factories and railroad networks in late 19th- and early 20th-century Japan and...

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