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Was Kuznets right? : new evidence on the relationship between structural transformation and inequality
Baymul, Çinar; Sen, Kunal - 2019
We examine the Kuznets postulate that structural transformation leads to higher inequality using comparable panel data … Kuznets hypothesis, we find that the movement of workers to manufacturing unambiguously decreases income inequality … into services has a positive impact on inequality across our set of countries at an early stage of structural …
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Foreign direct investment, trade, and economic growth : an empirical analysis of Bangladesh
Hussain, Mohammed Ershad; Haque, Mahfuzul - In: Economies : open access journal 4 (2016) 2, pp. 1-14
GDP for Bangladesh with the help of annual time series data for 1973 to 2014. The Vector Error Correction Model (VECM … of GDP per capita. Because FDI and trade are two important components of economic growth in Bangladesh, it is important …
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The middle-income transition around the globe : characteristics of graduation and slowdown
Vandenberg, Paul; Poot, Lilibeth; Miyamoto, Jeffrey - 2015
weak in the following areas: governance, infrastructure, savings and investment, inequality, and quality - but not quantity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010501267
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Prospects for Decent Work in Services
Khatiwada, Sameer - 2019
We examine how the services sector could provide decent and gainful employment in developing Asia. Using living wages as a reference point, we report that a significant portion of the workforce in developing Asian economies, the majority of which are employed in the agricultural sector, are not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012861139
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Prospects for decent work in services
Khatiwada, Sameer; Flaminiano, John Paul - 2019
This paper examines how the services sector could provide decent and gainful employment in developing Asia. Using living wages as a reference point, this paper reports that a significant portion of the workforce in developing Asian economies, the majority of which are employed in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011992217
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Beyond Value Capture - Exploring Innovation Gains from Global Networks
Ernst, Dieter - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012998217
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Green services and emergence and recovery from the global economic slowdown in developing Asian economies
Stoughton, Mark; Venkatachalam, Anbumozhi - 2010
The global economic slowdown has again highlighted the vulnerability of export-led development models and economies to downturns in export markets. Economic deepening or "rebalancing" with an emphasis on service-sector development should be - and is becoming - one long-term response to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003983157
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Job creation and trade in manufactures : industry-level analysis across countries
Shiferaw, Admasu; Hailu, Degol - In: IZA journal of labor & development 5 (2016) 3, pp. 1-36
This paper examines industry-level responses of manufacturing employment in the context of globalization using a large sample of developed, developing, and transition economies. We find that developing countries need atypically high rates of value-added growth (about 10 %) to increase...
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Russia's experience of foresight implementation in global value chain research
Meshkova, Tatiana A.; Moiseichev, Evgenii IA. - In: Journal of innovation and entrepreneurship : JIE 5 (2016) 9, pp. 1-35
The objective of this paper is to analyse the scope for improving empirical and methodological foundation of global value chain (GVC) research and for making relevant political decisions, primarily through application of foresight methodology based on the latest trend to combine the approaches...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011436433
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Green Services and Emergence and Recovery from the Global Economic Slowdown in Developing Asian Economies
Stoughton, Mark - 2014
The global economic slowdown has again highlighted the vulnerability of export-led development models and economies to downturns in export markets. Economic deepening or “rebalancing” with an emphasis on service-sector development should be - and is becoming - one long-term response to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013070042