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A turning point for the service sector in Thailand
Koonnathamdee, Pracha - 2013
discussed to determine significant service activities. Wholesale and retail trade, tourism and travel-related activities …
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The political economy of structural transformation in African cities : insights from the Deals and Development framework
Sen, Kunal - 2024
transformation. This paper provides a political economy analysis of the lack of structural transformation in African cities, drawing … on the Deals and Development framework. It argues that limited structural transformation in African cities is due to the … nature of state-business relations in the cities, where manufacturing and tradeable services firms in the formal sector face …
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Die ökonomische und wirtschaftspolitische Entwicklung Lateinamerikas nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg
Foders, Federico - 2001
reviews industrial and trade policies, macroeconomic stabilization and institutional development in Latin American countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011495369
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Growth and stagnation in a dual economy : the case of Brazil
Feijó, Carmem; Lamonica, Marcos Tostes; Lima, Sergiany … - In: PSL quarterly review 75 (2022) 301, pp. 119-138
The aim of the present article is to further develop the line of research initiated by Oreiroet al. (2019) by expanding the database used to calculate the EQI and the EQG, but also to control the effects of variables other than the EQG, such as the amount of capital per worker, over the PCIG and...
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Political power, resistance to technological change and economic development : evidence from the 19th century Sweden
Tyrefors, Björn; Lindgren, Erik; Pettersson-Lidbom, Per - 2017 - This version: June 16, 2017
We analyze investment decisions when information is costly, with and without delegation to an agent. We use a rational-inattention model and compare it with a canonical signal-extraction model. We identify three "investment conditions". In "sour" conditions, no information is acquired and no...
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Deep economic integration and state capacity : a mechanism for avoiding the middle-income trap?
Bruszt, László; Campos, Nauro - 2018
Exiting the middle-income trap entails costly improvements in state capacity. That deep economic integration induces powerful actors to support increasing state capacities remain underresearched. Here we ask: Under what conditions can deep economic integration yield increases in state capacity?...
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Impact of temporary migration on long-run economic development : the legacy of the sent-down youth program
Gørgens, Tue; Meng, Xin; Zhao, Guochang - 2024
migration impacted rural economic development in the regions that received a larger number of SDY per capita relative to regions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014525019
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The knowledge filter, entrepreneurship, and economic growth
Carlsson, Bo; Ács, Zoltán J.; Audretsch, David B.; … - 2007
This paper explores the relationship between knowledge creation, entrepreneur-ship, and economic growth in the United States over the last 150 years. Accor-ding to the "new growth theory," investments in knowledge and human capital ge-nerate economic growth via spillovers of knowledge. But the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271771
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New General Theory of Economic Development : Innovative Growth and Distribution
Lee, Yong-Shik - 2020
Economic development, which refers to the process of progressive transformation of an economy, is a multifaceted term without a universal definition. This article presents the constitutive elements of economic development, such as growth, distribution, and innovation. Economic development has...
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