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also provides a novel microfoundation for peer effects, with empirical implications for welfare and different education …
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The work defences the thesis that even ensured equal opportunities to invest in education and to get better life, even …
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Using firm-level data on manufacturing sectors in Africa, this paper addresses how domestic supply constraints and other firm characteristics explain the geographical orientation of firms' exports and the overall market diversification of African manufacturing exports. The degree of market...
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This study investigates how governance and infrastructure modulate the effect of natural resource rents on economic … linear and the underlying non-linearity is contingent on existing infrastructural and governance levels. Second, evidence of … a "natural resource curse" is apparent in countries with extremely low levels of governance and infrastructural …
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This study investigates how governance and infrastructure moderate the effect of natural resource rents on economic … governance levels. Second, evidence of a "natural resource curse" is apparent in countries with extremely low levels of … governance and infrastructural development. Third, the favorable effect of natural resources on economic growth requires a …
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In this paper I present in detail a methodology I have designed based on Hidalgo and Hausmann's Method of Reflections. The application of the original Method of Reflections (MoR) is restricted to economies with trade value of more than a billion dollar (USD) export a year. Based on my...
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Leveraging a new measure of patent citation trees (Corredoira & Banerjee, 2015), we demonstrate that research funded by the federal government is likely to spark more active technological trajectories. Our findings tie government funding to the generation of breakthrough inventions. The...
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