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Market access and firm performance : evidence based on GIS analysis of road network and manufacturing-plant-level data from India

Sharma, Somnath; Kant, Shashi; Mishra, Ranjeeta; … - 2022

This paper investigates whether better access to markets through an improved road network plays a role in improving the profitability of firms in India. We construct a district-level market access index using Indian road network shapefiles, district boundaries, and nightlight raster images and...

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Cross-economy dynamics in energy productivity : evidence from 47 economies over the period 2000-2015

Liu, Yang; Zhong, Sheng - 2021

economies contradict the implicit assumption of standard convergence analysis. To address this issue, we adopt the Markov chain …

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A framework to study the role of structural transformation in productivity growth and regional convergence

Fukao, Kyōji; Paul, Saumik - 2018

We show that σ-convergence in regional productivity growth can be approximated by σ-convergence in sectoral … productivity growth and σ-convergence in structural transformation-led productivity growth. Applying this framework to Japanese … prefecture-level data from 1874 to 2008, we find support for substantial convergence effects of structural transformation in the …

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The Republic of Korea's economic growth and catch-up : implications for the People's Republic of China

Lee, Jong-Wha - 2016

conditional convergence theory. Cross-country regression further suggests that the Republic of Korea's catch-up to the United … decades due to the convergence effect and with the rebalancing toward a domestic consumption and services-based economy. The …

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Service sector productivity and economic growth in Asia

Lee, Jong-Wha; McKibbin, Warwick J. - 2014

This paper explores the impacts of more rapid growth in labor productivity in the service sector in Asia based on an empirical general equilibrium model. The model allows for input-output linkages and capital movements across industries and economies, and consumption and investment dynamics. We...

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Sectoral and skill contributions to labor productivity in Asia

Helble, Matthias; Long, Trinh; Le, Trang T. - 2019

Using a decomposition approach on data collected by the Asian Productivity Organization (APO) as well as World Input-Output data, we show that in most Asian economies the services sector makes the largest contribution to labor productivity. Furthermore, we find evidence of a major reallocation...

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Industrial specialization or diversity? : how high-speed rail fosters Japan's regional agglomeration economy

Wetwitoo, Jetpan - 2019

In this paper, the relationship between high-speed rail (HSR) and agglomeration economy in the scope of specialization and diversity is investigated. The main objective is to answer two questions: first, to determine whether specialization or diversity promotes economic productivity, and second,...

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Globalization, structural change and interregional productivity growth in the emerging countries

Mallick, Jagannath - 2017

The aim of this paper is to contribute to the debate on the structural change effects or labor reallocation effects on the regional disparity in productivity growth in India and the People's Republic of China (PRC). The paper uses secondary data at the state level in India and provinces in the...

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Regional cooperation for improving agriculture production efficiency : a strategic tool for emission reduction

Zaman, Kazi Arif Uz - 2022

The growing population and climatic uncertainties have compelled producers to undertake faster exploitation of the resources in agricultural production to meet global food security, which, in turn, leads towards unsustainable and input-led inefficient production growth. The problem is further...

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