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This paper provides an in depth analysis of Russia’s recent growth, with a view to understanding the prospects for its continuation. It examines in detail the main drivers of growth, as well as the main developments and policies that have been underlying it. A key finding is that the role of...
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regulation have a significant impact on both labour and total factor productivity. States in which the regulatory environment … restricts competition have lower productivity growth in comparison to states in which regulation is more supportive of … of product market regulation is necessary to improve productivity growth further and ensure that the benefits of reform …
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Green Revolution varieties to achieve productivity improvements. This paper argues that the private firms supplying GM crop …, there is potential for productivity improvement in disadvantaged environments. …
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This paper investigates the impacts of Export-platform foreign direct investment on the production of upstream industries through backward linkages. First, in a three-country model, these impacts are explained through a competition effect and a demand effect. Otherwise, such production is also...
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productivity gains and demand growth. In this paper we study the interactions between structural change and technological progress … linking structural transformations and sector-specific technological opportunities to aggregate productivity growth. In the … final part we present productivity decompositions using a sectoral innovation taxonomy to study the contribution of …
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In an influential paper Mankiw, Romer, and Weil (1992) argue that the evidence on the international disparity in levels of per capita income and rates of growth is consistent with a standard Solow model, once it has been augmented to include human capital as an accumulable factor. In a study on...
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assess the quantitative contribution of productivity and life expectancy differences across countries in explaining … schooling in poor than in rich countries consistent with the data. These results highlight the importance of productivity and … development in education, emphasizing the crucial role of productivity improvements in poor countries relative to often …
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labor supply margin to assess the quantitative contribution of productivity and life expectancy in explaining educational … productivity. …
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use the model to assess the quantitative contribution of productivity and life expectancy differences across countries in …
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labor supply margin to assess the quantitative contribution of productivity and life expectancy in explaining educational … productivity. (Copyright: Elsevier) …
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