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India's economic growth: From socialist rate of growth to Bharatiya rate of growth

Virmani, Arvind - Indian Council for Research on International Economic … - 2004

Paper reviews India's growth performance since independence. Phrases suchas "Hindu Rate of Growth," sometimes make a telling comment and expose obscureeconomic data to a wider audience, but they can just as readily obscure reality byfocussing attention on the wrong issue. There is nothing in the...

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Sources of India's economic growth: trends in total factor productivity

Virmani, Arvind - Indian Council for Research on International Economic … - 2004

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India's Economic Growth History: Fluctuations, Trends, Break Points and Phases

Virmani, Arvind - In: Indian Economic Review 41 (2006) July, pp. 81-103

This paper reviews India's growth performance since independence. One of the innovations in this paper is to take explicit account of rainfall variations that play a very important role in the Indian economy. This allows us to determine whether the Indian economy has become less dependent on the...

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Engineers, Innovative Capacity and Development in the Americas

Maloney, William F.; Caicedo, Felipe Valencia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Using newly collected national and sub-national data and historical case studies, this paper argues that differences in innovative capacity, captured by the density of engineers at the dawn of the Second Industrial Revolution, are important to explaining present income differences, and, in...

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Engineers, Innovative Capacity and Development in the Americas

Maloney, William F.; Caicedo, Felipe Valencia - UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES-CEDE - 2014

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Revisiting Import-Substituting Industrialisation in Post-War Brazil

Colistete, Renato P. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

This article reassesses the classic period of Import-Substituting Industrialisation (ISI) in Brazil between 1945 and 1979. New data presented here show that Brazilian industry achieved significant labour productivity growth during the post-war years and became more technologically sophisticated,...

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DETERMINANTS OF GROWTH RATE: SOME METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES WITH DATA FROM FIJI

Rao, Bhaskara; Rao, Maheshwar - EconWPA - 2005

Compared to many cross-country studies on the determinants of growth rate, time series approaches are relatively few and limited in scope. However, time series studies are useful for country-specific policies. But in many recent works ad hoc specifications have been used to analyze the...

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Cities in the 21st century : a view from the developing world

Castells-Quintana, David; Herrera, Paula - In: Region : the journal of ERSA 6 (2019) 2, pp. E1-E6

In this (introductory) paper, we present i) some basic figures about the rise of cities in the developing world, and ii) the four papers of this special issue. This paper and the other four papers in the issue intend to bring the reality of cities of the developing world in the 21st century to...

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"Agglomeration, Inequality and Economic Growth"

Castells, David; Royuela, Vicente - Facultat d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat de Barcelona - 2011

specifications and by introducing different measures of agglomeration at country level (specifically, urbanization and urban …

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Economic growth, size of the agricultural sector, and urbanization in Africa

Brückner, Markus - In: Journal of Urban Economics 71 (2012) 1, pp. 26-36

urbanization rate. For a panel of 41 African countries during the period 1960–2007, the paper’s three main findings are that: (i …) decreases in the share of agricultural value added lead to a significant increase in the urbanization rate; (ii) conditional on … changes in the share of agricultural value added GDP per capita growth does not significantly affect the urbanization rate …

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