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Promoting growth-enhancing structural change : evidence from a panel of African, Asian, and Latin American countries
Trenczek, Jan - 2016 - This version: April 2016
In what the authors name “a first pass through the data”, McMillan et al. (2014) have recently addressed the question: what determines the magnitude of growth-enhancing structural change - defined as gains to average labor productivity resulting from a reallocation of labor across sectors?...
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Structural transforming paths across counties
Bah, El-hadj - In: Emerging markets finance & trade : a journal of the … 47 (2011), pp. 5-19
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Changing income inequality and structural transformation : the case of Botswana 1921 - 2010
Hillbom, Ellen; Bolt, Jutta - 2015
In Sub-Saharan Africa we find some of the highest levels of income inequality in the world. Nevertheless, we generally …
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Asia's industrial transformation : the role of manufacturing and global value chains
Felipe, Jesus - 2018
This paper argues that the single most important factor that explains East Asia's development success was its fast … as the "engine of growth." It is in the context of industrialization that openness played an important role in East Asia … exchange) and industrialization. Part 1 of the paper documents the extent of structural transformation in developing Asia …
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The economic complexity of the Visegrád countries and the role of trade with Germany
Soyyiğit, Semanur; Michalski, Bartosz - In: Central European economic journal 9 (2022) 56, pp. 219-236
The contemporary division of production in the global economy poses challenges typical for dependent market economies of the Visegrád countries (V4: Czechia, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia). This comparative study explores whether the foreign trade of V4 with Germany contributes to their...
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The structural transformation of Thailand : the role of policy distortion
Temsumit, Navarat; Hongsilp Sriket - In: Asian development review : studies of Asian and pacific … 40 (2023) 1, pp. 203-245
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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Strategies for Structural Transformation in South Asian Countries
Freire, Clovis - 2013
Growth in South Asia has not resulted in structural transformation and increase of productive capacities. This paper … presents a methodology to identify the opportunities for countries in South Asia to build their productive capacities and … addition to its relevance to the formulation of inclusive development policies in South Asia, this paper contributes to the …
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The Two Waves of Service-Sector Growth
Eichengreen, Barry; Gupta, Poonam - 2009
The positive association between the service sector share of output and per capita income is one of the best-known regularities in all of growth and development economics. Yet there is less than complete agreement on the nature of that association. Here we identify two waves of service sector...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011807641
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The two waves of service-sector growth
Eichengreen, Barry; Gupta, Poonam - 2009
The positive association between the service sector share of output and per capita income is one of the best-known regularities in all of growth and development economics. Yet there is less than complete agreement on the nature of that association. Here we identify two waves of service sector...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003832280
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The Service Sector as India’s Road to Economic Growth?
Eichengreen, Barry; Gupta, Poonam - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010
Among fast growing developing countries, India is distinctive for the role of the service sector. However, sceptics have raised doubts about both the quality and sustainability of the increase in service sector activity and its implications for economic development. Using National Accounts...
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