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The Role of Innovation and New Technologies in Closing the Economic Circuit of Electrical and Electronic Equipment

Dinu, Vasile; Gradinaru, Giani Ionel; Maricut, Alin Cristian - In: Amfiteatru Economic 25 (2023) 62, pp. 12-27

Digitisation and the circular economy open the possibility to ensure efficient products and services development, while promoting the sustainable development of social well-being. Despite being an area with high potential for adopting business models that integrate the perspective of the two...

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Allocation of Female Talent and Cross-Country Productivity Differences

Lee, Munseob - 2023

The disparities in cross-country labor productivity are greater in agriculture than in other industries. I propose that the misallocation of female talent across sectors distorts productivity. I formalize the theory by using a general equilibrium Roy model with gender-specific frictions. If...

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Transforming rural economies through tertiary education: Evidence from India

Castelló-Climent, Amparo; Mukhopadhyay, Abhiroop - 2023

This paper analyses the role of tertiary education on rural development. Using census data on villages in India for 2011, we find that skilled workers have had an important impact on rural prosperity. A 1 percentage point rise in the share of the village population with tertiary education raises...

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Climatic fluctuations and the diffusion of agriculture

Ashraf, Quamrul; Michalopoulos, Stelios - 2013

This research examines variations in the diffusion of agriculture across countries and archaeological sites. The theory suggests that a society´s history of climatic shocks shaped the timing of its adoption of farming. Specifically, as long as climatic disturbances did not lead to a collapse of...

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The natural resource curse in post-soviet countries: The role of institutions and trade policies

Horváth, Roman; Zeynalov, Ayaz - 2014

We examine the effect of natural resource abundance on economic performance during the 1996-2011 period in the 15 independent countries that formerly comprised the Soviet Union. These countries were a largely homogeneous group with respect to institutional development, liberalization and...

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The Convergent Evolution of Romania's Gross Domestic Product in Relation to the Average Macro-Economic Result of the European Union Countries

Necula, Raluca; Stoian, Mirela; Drăghici, Manea - In: Amfiteatru Economic Journal 18 (2016) 43, pp. 575-591

Romania's economic growth is a target that can be achieved only within the accordance of all the economic sectors with … annual growth rates. The calculations result shows a strong economic boost of Romania, the annual growth rates being high …

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Best Practices for Integrating the Romanian Small Farmers into the Agri-Food Chain

Boboc, Dan; Popescu, Gabriel; Stoian, Mirela; Lădaru, … - In: Amfiteatru Economic Journal 19 (2017) 44, pp. 315-326

In the modern market economy, agri-food chains were imposed and strengthened due to unprecedented evolving recorded by supply and demand of food in recent decades, dynamic driven by market fragmentation, on the one hand, and specific processes of consumption and consumer emancipation, on the...

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Structural transformation and its relevance for economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa

Busse, Matthias; Erdogan, Ceren; Mühlen, Henning - 2017

In this paper, we analyse the role of structural transformation in view of the remarkable growth performance of sub … structural transformation by employing the analytical frameworks of (1) growth decomposition and (2) growth regression. Even … structural transformation has taken place and that it has contributed significantly to African growth in the past decades. …

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Cursing the blessings? Natural resource abundance, institutions, and economic growth

Brunnschweiler, Christa N. - 2006

. This paper re-examines the effects of natural resource abundance on economic growth using new measures of resource … resource abundance and economic growth. In both OLS and 2SLS re- gressions, the positive resource effects are particularly …

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The Resource Curse Revisited and Revised: A Tale of Paradoxes and Red Herrings

Brunnschweiler, Christa N.; Bulte, Erwin H. - 2006

dependence does not affect growth, and (iii) resource abundance positively affects growth and institutional quality. …

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