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This paper examines whether growth regressions should incorporate dualism and structural change. If there is a … factor productivity. The paper develops empirical growth models that allow for this effect in a more flexible way than … labour can explain a significant fraction of the international variation in TFP growth. …
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The paper contributes to the literature on the relation between structural changes in demand and supply and growth. We …- and meso-properties of the simulated growth patterns. In particular, we observe and explain the interactions between … technological change, firm organisation, income distribution, consumption behaviour and growth. The analysis performed on the …
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The process of economic development is characterized by substantial rural-urban migrations and a decreasing share of agriculture in output and employment. The literature highlights two main engines behind this process of structural change: (i) improvements in agricultural technology combined...
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The paper builds predictive scenarios for the agricultural sector of eleven Mediterranean countries (Med 11), namely Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Palestine, Syria, Tunisia and Turkey. First, it assesses the performance trends of the Med 11 agricultural sector with a...
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production and consumption, on long run economic growth and income distribution. To accomplish with such a broad aim, we develop … of the structural conditions; we graphically show that the main determinants of endogenous economic growth and takeoff …; simplified scenarios are identified via numerical simulations, in which patterns of aggregate growth are obtained as an emerging …
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accumulation. The present article studies international convergence and divergence, linking structural change with trade and growth …&D intensive sectors allows achieving higher rates of growth in the long term and increases the capacity to respond to demand … changes. A virtuous export-led growth requires laggard countries to reduce the technological gap with respect to more advanced …
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The paper proposes a model that explains cross-country growth divergences over time for different aspects of structural … of investment in new capital, productivity gains and cumulative growth. The model is able to reproduce empirical stylised … facts on growth and income inequality associated with different stages of growth. We use VARs to estimate the causal …
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This paper examines the link between structural change and growth in India. It constructs indices of structural change …, and performs a time series analysis of the data. It finds that 1988 marks a break in the time series of growth and … structural change. There is one-way causality from structural change to growth in the period 1988-2007, whereas there is no …
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economic growth and unemployment. We provide a theoretical model that explains the technology-bias and predicts its development …-results. Last not least, we discuss the implications of our findings for the existing growth literature and structural change …
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raise long term productivity growth need to be pursued. Current project-based R&D-support and business subsidies seem … current targeted support. Capital taxation should be streamlined to improve incentives for entrepreneurship and growth. The …
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