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Structural change, dualism and economic development : the role of the vulnerable poor on marginal lands

Barbier, Edward B. - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2013

natural resources use in the rural economy matter in the overall dynamics of structural change. The concentration of the rural … poor on marginal lands is essentially a barometer of economy-wide development. As long as there are abundant marginal lands … in the economy. Moreover, the economy is vulnerable to the"Dutch disease"effects of a booming primary products sector. As …

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Labor migration and economic growth in east and southeast Asia

Walmsley, Terrie; Aguiar, Angel; Ahmed, S. Amer - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2013

East and Southeast Asia face major demographic changes over the next few decades as many countries'labor forces will start to decline, while others will experience higher labor force growth as populations and participation rates increase. A well-managed labor migration strategy presents itself...

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Sovereign debt : a primer

Eaton, Jonathan - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1992

The troublesome debts of many developing countries have spawned much literature on why countries borrow, on what debt contributes to growth, on why countries repay, and on how to deal with existing debt. The author provides an analytical primer on the following aspects of sovereign debt : 1) the...

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Disinflation and the supply side

Agenor, Pierre-Richard; Lodovico, Pizzati - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2000

economy in which domestic households face imperfect world capital markets, the labor supply is endogenous, and wages are …

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Productivity and externalities : models of export led growth

de Melo, Jaime; Robinson, Sherman - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1990

In developing countries, industrialization for successful export-led growth has been associated with rapid structural change and growth in productivity. Standard neoclassical growth models have difficulty explaining this change in performance. This paper has developed a simple analytical model...

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Trade, capital accumulation, and structural unemployment : An empirical study of the Singapore economy

Kee, Hiau Looi; Hoon, Hian Teck - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2004

The past three and a half decades witnessed a distinctly declining trend in Singapore's unemployment rate, which dropped from an average annual rate of 7.85 percent in 1966-70 to 2.74 percent in 1991-2000. The authors seek to identify and empirically examine the factors that have influenced...

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Determinants of agricultural growth in Indonesia, the Philippines, and Thailand

Mundlack, Yair; Larson, Donald F.; Butzer, Rita - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2002

The introduction of new high-yielding varieties of cereals in the 1960s, known as the green revolution. Changed dramatically the food supply I Asia, as well as in other countries. The authors examine over an extended period, the growth consequences for agriculture in Indonesia, the Philippines,...

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Markups, returns to scale, and productivity : a case study of Singapore's manufacturing sector

Kee, Hiau Looi - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2002

accounting (production function) technique, Young (1992, 1995) found no sign of TFP growth in the aggregate economy and the …

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Where has all the education gone?

Pritchett, Lant - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1996

Cross-national data on economic growth rates show that increases in educational capital resulting from improvements in the educational attainment of the labor force have had no positive impact on the growth rate of output per worker. In fact, contends the author, the estimated impact of growth...

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Vietnam - on the road to labor-intensive growth ?

Belser, Patrick - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2000

Since Vietnam's adoption of the doi moi or renovation policy in 1986, the country has been undergoing the transition … from central planning to a socialist market-oriented economy. This has translated into strong economic growth, led by the …, that employment growth has lagged. To address this concern, the author compares new employment data from the Vietnam Living …

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