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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...

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Trade and Economic Growth : Theories and Evidence from the Southern African Development Community

Farahane, Matias - 2020

This paper empirically tests the hypothesis that trade can act as an engine of growth using panel data for the Southern African Development Community (SADC), a regional integration agreement (RIA) organization, the central objective of whose formation was the need to accelerate, foster, and...

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Domestic Amplifiers of External Shocks : Growth Accelerations and Reversals in Emerging Market and Developing Economies

Gruss, Bertrand - 2019

External conditions have been found to influence the tendency of emerging market and developing economies to experience episodes of growth accelerations and reversals. In this paper we study the role of domestic policies and other structural attributes in amplifying or mitigating the effect that...

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Distance to the Pre-industrial Technological Frontier and Economic Development

Özak, Ömer - 2018

This research explores the effects of distance to the pre-industrial technological frontiers on comparative economic development in the course of human history. It establishes theoretically and empirically that distance to the frontier had a persistent non-monotonic effect on a country's...

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Does technology adoption matter for economic development? : an empirical evidence for Latin American countries

Lechman, Ewa - 2013

Extraordinary spread of new information and communication (ICTs) technologies has been recognized worldwide. ICTs are broadly perceived as tools facilitating economic growth and development, especially in economically backward countries. They are relatively easy and cheap to adopt, require...

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Culture, diffusion, and economic development

Harutyunyan, Ani; Özak, Ömer - 2016

This research explores the effects of culture on technological diffusion and economic development. It shows that culture's direct effects on development and barrier effects to technological diffusion are, in general, observationally equivalent. In particular, using a large set of measures of...

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ICT Diffusion, Foreign Direct Investment and Inclusive Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa

Ofori, Isaac K.; Asongu, Simplice - 2021

investment (FDI) on inclusive growth in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The study draws on data from the World Bank’s World Development …) FDI and ICT diffusion and corresponding components (ICT access, usage, skills) induce inclusive growth in SSA; (2 …) compared to its direct effect, FDI is remarkable in fostering shared growth in SSA in the presence of greater ICT diffusion …

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Foreign direct investment, governance and inclusive growth in sub-Saharan Africa

Ofori, Isaac Kwesi; Asongu, Simplice - 2021

Motivated by the projected rebound of foreign direct investment (FDI) inflow to sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) following the … implementation of the AfCFTA and the finalization of the Africa Investment Protocol, we examine how FDI modulates the effects of … FDI and various governance indicators (rule of law, control of corruption, regulatory quality, governance effectiveness …

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On the two catching-up mechanisms in Asian development

Kunieda, Takuma; Okada, Keisuke; Sawada, Yasuyuki; … - In: Asian development review : studies of Asian and pacific … 38 (2021) 2, pp. 31-57

Existing studies identify two major underlying mechanisms behind East and Southeast Asia’s miraculous economic performance in the past 5 decades: accumulation and technological catching-up. This study investigates empirically the relative importance of these two mechanisms in Asian development...

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Culture, Diffusion, and Economic Development

Harutyunyan, Ani - 2016

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