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Back to the 'normal' level of human-capital driven growth? A note on early numeracy in Korea, China and Japan, 1550 - 1800

Baten, Joerg; Sohn, Kitae - 2013

-determined by their early numeracy development. …

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On the Latin American growth paradox: A hindsight into the Golden Age

Barboni, Giorgia; Treibich, Tania - 2010

In 1950, Latin American countries capabilities were promising, and the subcontinent was thought to have a big potential for convergence. In order to understand why this prediction was not fulfilled, we apply in this paper the framework set by Fagerberg and Srholec (2008(24)). Our study of the...

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Using complex network analysis to assess the evolution of international economic integration: The cases of East Asia and Latin America

Reyes, Javier; Schiavo, Stefano; Fagiolo, Giorgio - 2007

Over the past four decades the High Performing Asian Economies (HPAE) have followed a development strategy based on the …

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Stock markets and growth: A re-evaluation

DeHan, Chase Parker - 2012

There is a large body of literature stressing the importance of developing financial markets, including stock markets, to enhance countries' growth. I argue that the relationship between stock markets and growth is exaggerated and that the simple act of opening a formal stock market is not a...

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The heterogeneous relationship between income and inequality: a panel co-integration approach

Flechtner, Svenja; Gräbner, Claudius - 2019

We study the relationship between per-capita income and income inequality with a heterogeneous panel co-integration approach. We extend previous studies in two dimensions: first, we compile a more extensive data set for 61 countries over 26-51 years and consider measures for both pre-tax and...

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Winning or losing a run: The role of technological drivers at stages of development

Ruiz, Ana Urraca; Laguna Molina, Nuria Esther - In: Atlantic Review of Economics (ARoEc) 1 (2018) 1

This article studies the role of technology drivers in catching up at different stages of development. Countries can be … at different stages of development when entering in a new catching-up cycle. Thus, the technological drivers of growth … or lose the run). The empirical results show the building of a 'racing pattern' as countries climb up development stages …

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Social mobility and economic development: Evidence from a panel of Latin American regions

Neidhöfer, Guido; Ciaschi, Matías; Gasparini, Leonardo; … - 2021

We explore the role of social mobility as a driver of economic development by constructing a panel data set that …-regional heterogeneity. Our findings show that increasing social mobility had a significant and robust impact on the development of Latin …

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In Search of Larger Per Capita Incomes: How To Prioritize across Productivity Determinants?

Izquierdo, Alejandro; Llopis, Jimena; Muratori, Umberto; … - 2016

This study is a first contribution to prioritization across productivity determinant capabilities that attempts to obtain the equivalent of a "shadow price" for each of these capabilities by estimating their impact on the success a country may have in reaching higher income per capita groups....

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Inequality and economic development: An overview

Galor, Oded - 2009

development. …

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Isolation and development

Ashraf, Quamrul; Galor, Oded; Ozak, Omer - 2009

-faring and airborne transportation technologies, to examine its impact on the course of economic development across the globe … effect on the process of development and contributed to the contemporary variation in the standard of living across countries. …

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