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The role of FDI in structural change : evidence from Mexico
Escobar, Octavio; Mühlen, Henning - 2018
Foreign direct investment (FDI) flows to Mexico are substantial and play an important role in the Mexican economy since … landscape and sectoral structure in this host country. We illustrate that there is considerable variation in the amounts of FDI … there is a significant impact of FDI on structural change. We conduct an empirical analysis covering the period 2006 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011911309
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The role of FDI in structural change : evidence from Mexico
Escobar, Octavio; Mühlen, Henning - 2018
Foreign direct investment (FDI) flows to Mexico are substantial and play an important role in the Mexican economy since … landscape and sectoral structure in this host country. We illustrate that there is considerable variation in the amounts of FDI … there is a significant impact of FDI on structural change. We conduct an empirical analysis covering the period 2006 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011903061
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Decomposing a decomposition : within-country differences and the role of structural change in productivity growth
Escobar, Octavio; Mühlen, Henning - 2019
In this article, we investigate the relevance of structural change in country-wide productivity growth considering within-country differences. For this purpose, we propose a two-step decomposition approach that accounts for differences among subnational units. To highlight the relevance of our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011991749
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Innovation, economic diversification and human development
Hartmann, Dominik; Pyka, Andreas - 2013
In this paper we bridge a gap between innovation economics and the human development approach by analyzing positive and negative effects of different types of economic diversification on social welfare. Economic variety is a driver and outcome of economic development. However, diversification...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009708066
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Capital Fundamentalism and Structural Transformation
Tohari, Achmad; Parsons, Christopher Robert; Rammohan, Anu - 2021
We revisit the role of Capital Fundamentalism, in the context of the Government of Indonesia's Inpres Desa Tertinggal (IDT or Left Behind Village) Program, which injected capital into poor village economies. We evaluate the impact of the program on village welfare and structural transformation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013223995
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Global Structural Change and Value Chains in Services. A Reappraisal
Savona, Maria - 2016
The scholarship on Global Value Chains is very recently recognising the increasing importance of fragmentation of production that involves services – and in particular business services – offshoring. A predominant stand by scholars emerges in this embryonic domain (Blinder, 2006; Gereffi and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014128780
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Trade openness and structural change dynamics in West African countries
Chabi, Patrick; Saygılı, Refik Fatih - In: Journal of economic structures : JES; the official … 13 (2024), pp. 1-27
In this study, we investigate the contribution of trade openness to the structural change process in ECOWAS countries. Our findings suggest that the production structural change process is significantly and positively affected by the extent of trade openness. Higher openness levels are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014497206
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Chile: The road to joy is paved with obstacles
Yajima, Giuliano Toshiro - In: PSL quarterly review 75 (2022) 302, pp. 285-297
The second round of the Presidential elections in Chile marked a swing in the local political scenario. The coalition led by Gabriel Boric secured an unprecedented victory under the premise of delivering long-awaited reforms to a financially volatile, structurally fragile and deeply unequal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014230844
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Levels of Structural Change : An Analysis of China's Development Push 1998-2014
Heinrich, Torsten - 2020
We investigate structural change in the PR China during a period of particularly rapid growth 1998-2014. For this, we utilize sectoral data from the World Input-Output Database and firm-level data from the Chinese Industrial Enterprise Database. Starting with correlation laws known from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012835014
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Capital fundamentalism and structural transformation
Tohari, Achmad; Parsons, Christopher R.; Rammohan, Anu - 2021
We revisit the role of Capital Fundamentalism, in the context of the Government of Indonesia's Inpres Desa Tertinggal (IDT or Left Behind Village) Program, which injected capital into poor village economies. We evaluate the impact of the program on village welfare and structural transformation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012549818