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Export upgrading and growth: the prerequisite of domestic embeddedness

PONCET, Sandra; WALDEMAR, Felipe STAROSTA DE - Fondation pour les études et recherches sur le … - 2012

Our work contributes to the literature relating output structure and economic development by showing that growth gains from upgrading are not unconditional. Relying on data from a panel of Chinese cities, we show that the level of capabilities available to domestic firms operating in ordinary...

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Moving out of Agriculture: Structural Change in Vietnam

Pavcnik, Nina; McCaig, Brian - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

We examine the role of structural change in the economic development of Vietnam from 1990 to 2008. Structural change accounted for a third of the growth in aggregate labor productivity during this period, which averaged 5.1 percent per annum. We discuss the role of reforms in agriculture,...

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The Twin Effects of Globalization. Evidence from a Sample of Indian Manufacturing Firms

Daveri, Francesco; Manasse, Paolo; Serra, Danila - In: Rivista di Politica Economica (2011) 1, pp. 223-251

Employees of globalized firms face a more uncertain stream of earnings and riskier employment prospects. However, they also have stronger incentives to train and upgrade their skills and benefit from more rapid careers. Hence, the costs of uncertainty and the benefits of skill upgrading...

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Capital goods imports and long-run growth: Is the Chinese experience relevant to developing countries?

Herrerias, M.J.; Orts, Vicente - In: Journal of Policy Modeling 35 (2013) 5, pp. 781-797

In this paper, we analyze the role played by capital goods imports in the long-run growth of developing countries. We focus in the case of the Chinese economy in the last few decades. We find evidence that the ratio of imported to domestic capital goods, that is, the composition of investment,...

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Balance of Payments-consistent unreported flows

Beja Jr, Edsel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

The paper develops a Balance of Payments (BOP)-consistent procedure for estimating unreported flows. Using data between 1990 and 2007, total unreported flows of selected Asian countries is estimated at $4.7 trillion, or more than 80% of the countries’ 2007 total gross domestic product. Results...

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China's Foreign Trade in the Perspective of a More Balanced Economic Growth

Gaulier, Guillaume; Lemoine, Françoise; Ünal, Deniz - Centre d'études prospectives et d'informations … - 2011

adjust to changes in international demand. Foreign affiliates’ processed exports are vulnerable to the slow-down of Western …

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Trading Costs in East Asia’s Global Value Chains

Lord, Montague J.; Clarke, Julian; Record, Richard; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

The World Trade Organization’s new Agreement on Trade Facilitation has the potential to significantly reduce East Asia’s trade costs along the entire supply chain, increasing regional gross domestic product (GDP) by 2.7 percent and employment by 1.2 percent. At present, the region’s...

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The Empirical Analysis of the Relation Between Fdi, Exports and Economic Growth for Romania

Carp, Lenuta - In: CES Working Papers 6 (2014) 1, pp. 32-41

emphasizing the strong, long – term impact of FDI inflows on economic growth through the volume of exports. Using data over the …

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Growth by Destination (Where You Export Matters) : Trade with China and Growth in African Countries

Baliamoune-Lutz, Mina - 2010

Africa's trade with China, distinguishing between the effect of imports and the effect of exports, and controlling for the … evidence that exports to China enhance growth unconditionally. Second, the results suggest that export concentration enhances … (in terms of growth) than do countries that have more diversified exports. Third, contrary to the widely held view that …

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Quality Upgrading and Export Performance in the Asian Growth Miracle

Papageorgiou, Chris - 2020

We explore the contribution of product-quality upgrading to the export performance of six fast-growing Asian economies: China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, South Korea, and Thailand. We focus on measuring the impact of quality upgrading on the changes in these countries' sectoral export shares...

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