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Colombian manufacturing exporting firms survey results are analyzed highlighting innovation, promotion, and learning, as well as the influence of factors such as: size, ownership, output objectives, destination of exports, competition and pricing, export incentives, and firm configuration, in...
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This study re-assesses the most popular development policy of the 20th century, import substitution industrialization … industrialization rent and the rent capture remained low and diminished over time. The real problem was the endogenous imbalance of rent …
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Though a logically tight case for infant industry protection has never been made, proprotection authors have claimed its truth since at least its statement by Alexander Hamilton in 1791. In the 1970s and the 1980s, the argument had receded into the background following its influential critiques...
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Different bodies of literature emphasise the separate impact of the manufacturing sector and scientific capacity for competitiveness in developing countries. Scientific knowledge can increase productivity and promote innovation, while the manufacturing sector creates spillovers and generates...
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A two country, three sector hybrid model of structural change with distortionary government policies is used to … quantify the impact of international trade and trade reform for industrialization. The model features Arming- ton motivated … subsidies and lump sum government transfers of net tariff revenue. We calibrate our economy to data on South Korea and the OECD …
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policy in trade and industrialization for targeting industries and firms and provides a brief historical review of practices …
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America now advocates the path of free markets to industrialization. However, a cursory look into its developmental …
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This paper analyzes the evolution of industrial competitiveness in Sweden and Finland in a long-term perspective. The first part looks at the foundations for industrial take-off in Sweden, with some focus on the development of institutions for the creation and dissemination of the skills and...
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welfare benefits for Colombia, cost the Colombian government $633 million in tariff revenue, and force Colombia to deregulate …
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We investigate the long-term effects of export opportunities to a large destination market on multinational affiliates and domestic firms in a low-income host country. The US-Vietnam Bilateral Trade Agreement reduced US import tariffs on exports from Vietnam. Tariff reductions led to entry...
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