the low labor-productivity growth in the African nations-without reinventing the wheel by estimating the impact of … preferential access trade agreement--the ricochet effect of the trade-induced productivity benefits via intermediates in the … Analysis Project (GTAP) with 27 sectors and 51 regions. The paper shows: (i) role of trade-mediated productivity benefits for …

This study explores the linkages among globalization, human capital development, and productivity growth in Africa from … indicate bidirectional causality between human capital development and productivity growth, and between globalization and human … capital development, whereas a unidirectional causality from productivity growth to globalization exists in Africa. The result …

This paper quantitatively investigates the short- and long-run effects of liberalizing global migration on the world … distribution of income. We develop and parametrize a dynamic model of the world economy with endogenous migration, fertility and … are gradual and cumulative. In case of a complete liberalization, the world average level of GDP per worker increases by …

The Latin American export in the manufacturing sector is 18% lower than the world average. Although between the 1980s … American region to consolidate the change in its productivity and its dependence on oil extraction activities, minerals, and …