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Structural Change, Fundamentals and Growth : A Framework and Case Studies

McMillan, Margaret - 2017

development quest. The sample includes seven developing countries--Botswana, Ghana, Nigeria, Zambia, India, Vietnam and Brazil … industrialization only played a significant role in Vietnam …

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Is a Decentralized Right-to-Work Policy Feasible?

Ravallion, Martin - 2019

Evidence on the implementation of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Act suggests that the available work is often rationed by local leaders in poor areas, and that this is an important factor limiting the scheme's impact on poverty. The paper offers explanations for this empirical...

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Alternative Labor Market Policies to Increase Economic Self-Sufficiency : Mandating Higher Wages, Subsidizing Employment, and Increasing Productivity

Neumark, David - 2009

I review evidence on alternative labor market policies that could potentially improve economic self-sufficiency via mandating higher wages, subsidizing employment, or increasing productivity. The evidence indicates that the minimum wage is an ineffective policy to promote economic...

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Openness, Productivity and Growth : What Do We Really Know?

Edwards, Sebastian - 1997

For over a century social analysts have debated the connection between trade policy and economic performance. This controversy continues today, even as the world is experiencing an unprecedented period of trade liberalization, and in spite of numerous empirical studies that claim to have found a...

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Infrastructure in a Structural Model of Economic Growth

Holtz-Eakin, Douglas - 1994

Researchers, commentators, and politicians have devoted steadily more attention to infrastructure in response to claims that inadequate accumulation of public capital has contributed to substandard U.S. economic growth. Despite this, the link between infrastructure and productivity growth...

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Distinguishing Constraints on Financial Inclusion and Their Impact on GDP, TFP, and Inequality

Dabla-Norris, Era - 2015

We develop a micro-founded general equilibrium model with heterogeneous agents and three dimensions of financial inclusion: access (determined by a participation cost), depth (determined by a borrowing constraint), and intermediation efficiency (determined by a monitoring cost). We find that the...

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The Economic Impact of Non-Communicable Disease in China and India : Estimates, Projections, and Comparisons

Bloom, David E. - 2013

This paper provides estimates of the economic impact of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in China and India for the period 2012-2030. Our estimates are derived using WHO's EPIC model of economic growth, which focuses on the negative effects of NCDs on labor supply and capital accumulation. We...

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The 1991 Reforms, Indian Economic Growth, and Social Progress

Agarwal, Manmohan - 2013

This paper analyzes the effects of the reforms initiated in India following the balance of payments (BOP) crisis of 1991 on economic performance. We do not find persuasive the contention of many analysts that growth accelerated after the mid-1980s when reforms were initiated. Nor does...

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Aging and Death under a Dollar a Day

Banerjee, Abhijit V. - 2007

more likely to be alive than the poor's mothers. Using panel data set for Indonesia and Vietnam, we also find that older …

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Distortions, Producer Dynamics, and Aggregate Productivity : A General Equilibrium Analysis

Ayerst, Stephen; Brandt, Loren; Restuccia, Diego - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

improvements. We calibrate the model using detailed farm-level panel data from Vietnam, exploiting regional differences in … agricultural institutions and outcomes. We focus on south Vietnam and quantify the effect of higher measured distortions in the … North on farm choices and agricultural productivity. We find that the higher distortions in north Vietnam reduce …

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