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Thailand and the Republic of Korea were developing at a similar pace during the 1960s. However, the Republic of Korea’s economic development rapidly expanded from the 1970s onward, leaving Thailand lagging far behind. This paper investigates the labor productivity slowdown in Thailand using a...
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syndromes. Recent evidence suggests that Africa is on the threshold of significant and sustainable economic growth if its human …-'Building Knowledge Economies in Africa' - consists of papers that focus on, but are not limited to, the four dimensions of the World Bank … of building knowledge economies in Africa and summarises the main contributions to the themed issue. The paper ends by …
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In diesem Beitrag wird zunächst das Wirtschaftswachstum Lateinamerikas im Zeitraum 1950-2001 im internationalen Vergleich untersucht. Daran schließt sich eine Analyse der Industrie- und Handelspolitik, der makroökonomischen Stabilisierung und der institutionellen Entwicklung in den...
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This article investigates empirically the interaction between countries' Comparative Advantage Following (CAF) development strategy and Aid for Trade (AfT ) interventions in influencing the extent of structural change in production. Based on the Generalized Methods of Moments and an unbalanced...
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This paper discusses a possible case for industrial policy, with special reference to the two emerging global giants, China and India. It begins with a clarification of the meaning of industrial policy, since not only does the term mean different things to different people, but the traditional...
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This review essay critically interrogates the discourse and practice of development. It is argued that models of alternative development remain imprisoned in the ontological categories of the development project, an ideological and institutional devise to consolidate the hegemony of the West...
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