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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010660027
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Climate change, industrial transformation, and"development traps"
Golub, Alexander; Toman, Michael - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014
specification is used in which the economy can produce a single homogeneous consumption good with two different technologies. In the … energy input. If the new sector does not grow fast enough to move through the phase of increasing returns, then the economy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010829404
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005128462
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Researching the trade - productivity link : new directions
Tybout, James R. - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1991
This paper is an effort to bring together diverse literatures on the measurement of productivity and its relation to trade regime, focussing on recently developed techniques and their applications. It provides a brief review of the theoretical arguments linking trade policy and productivity....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005128584
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Openness and growth : a time series, cross-country analysis for developing countries
Harrison, Ann - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1991
This paper compares the association between many popular proxies for openness and the rate of GDP growth, as well as the results from cross-section and panel estimation, controlling for country effects. The results suggest that using period averages versus annual data critically affects the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005128597
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005128668
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Economic stagnation, fixed factors, and policy thresholds
Easterly, William - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1991
Analysis of decade-long growth rates in all countries shows a striking regularity: episodes of rapid growth are limited largely to a middle range of initial income; neither very poor nor very rich countries experienced rapid growth. Episodes of negative growth are limited to low and middle-income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005128692
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005128734
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005128760
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How much do distortions affect growth?
Easterly, William; DEC - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1993
The author presents a simple endogenous growth model (with two types of capital) that shows the sizable long-run effects on growth of distortionary policies. The model applies to many different types of distortions of relative prices common in developing countries - for example, price controls,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005128864