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Stylised facts of economic growth in developing countries

Steger, Thomas M. - 2001

This paper offers a concise survey on the literature of growth empirics applying to DCs. It is argued that there is a number of important stylised facts of economic growth relevant to DCs which are not included in the corresponding lists of Kaldor and Romer. In contrary to the usual procedure,...

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Tax revenue-economic growth relationship and the role of trade openness in developing countries

Thuy Tien Ho; Xuan Hang Tran; Quang Khai Nguyen - In: Cogent business & management 10 (2023) 2, pp. 1-14

This study investigates the impact of tax revenue on economic growth in the context of increasing trade openness in developing countries by using the data of 29 developing countries with accelerating economic growth during the period 2000-2020. This study further applies the Fixed Effect Model...

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Entrepreneurship in developing countries

Acs, Zoltán J.; Virgill, Nicola - 2009

This paper reviews the literature on economic development from import substitution to export promotion. It then … examines the literature on entrepreneurship and economic development creating a framework for promoting development through … policies. -- Development ; export substitution ; export promotion ; public policy …

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Aid, growth and devolution

Lessmann, Christian; Markwardt, Gunther - 2009

consider how both anti-poverty instruments - financial assistance and decentralization - work together. -- foreign aid ; growth …

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As you sow so shall you reap : from capabilities to opportunities

Felipe, Jesus; Kumar, Utsav; Abdon, Arnelyn - 2010

We develop an Index of Opportunities for 130 countries based on their capabilities to undergo structural transformation. The Index of Opportunities has four dimensions, all of them characteristic of a country’s export basket: (1) sophistication; (2) diversification; (3) standardness; and (4)...

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Development diagnostics for the Southern cone

Borensztein, Eduardo; Miller, Sebastián; Sánchez, Gabriel - 2014

composite development gaps across economic, social and institutional sectors. We define development gap as the distance between … the observed and the expected development level of a country. The gaps are indicators of areas where development needs are … bigger. Although we estimate the development gaps for all countries with available data, we focus the analysis of our results …

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Persistence of fortune : accounting for population movements, there was no post-columbian reversal

Chanda, Areendam; Cook, C. Justin; Putterman, Louis G. - 2013

population density measures used by Acemoglu et al. (2002) as indicators of level of development in 1500, we confirm a reversal … strong or stronger for three alternative measures of early development, namely years since transition to agriculture, state …-Run Economic Growth ; Comparative Development ; Colonized Countries ; Early Development …

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Culture, diffusion, and economic development

Harutyunyan, Ani; Özak, Ömer - 2016

This research explores the effects of culture on technological diffusion and economic development. It shows that … culture's direct effects on development and barrier effects to technological diffusion are, in general, observationally … in contemporary development are associated with pairwise cultural differences relative to the technological frontier …

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Paradox lost?

Easterlin, Richard A. - 2016

Or Paradox Regained? The answer is Paradox Regained. New data confirm that for countries worldwide long-term trends in happiness and real GDP per capita are not significantly positively related. The principal reason that Paradox critics reach a different conclusion, aside from problems of data...

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Middle-income transitions : trap or myth?

Felipe, Jesus; Kumar, Utsav; Galope, Reynold - 2014

During the last few years, the newly coined term middle-income trap has been widely used by policymakers to refer to the middle-income economies that seem to be stuck in the middle-income range. However, there is no accepted definition of the term in the literature. In this paper, we study...

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