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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....

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Patterns of industrial development revisted : the role of finance

Fisman, Raymond; Love, Inessa - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2002

The authors reexamine the role of financial market development in the intersectoral allocation of resources. First, they characterize the assumptions underlying previous work in this area, in particular, that of Rajan and Zingales (1998). The authors argue that Rajan and Zingales (1998)...

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Does high technology matter? An application to United States regional growth

Boltho, Andrea; King, Robert - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1990

This paper studies the influence of"high technology"on the growth of output by using cross-section data on U.S. states. An eclectic approach to the"sources-of-growth"literature leads to the estimate of a"base"equation which explains about half of the differences in per capita GSP growth rates of...

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Has Latin America's post-reform growth been disappointing?

Easterly, William; Loayza, Norman; Montiel, Peter - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1997

After years of poor economic performance, many Latin American countries undertook ambitious programs of macroeconomic stabilization andstructural reform in recent years. This change in policy created high expectations for the region, and some observers have questioned whether actual growth...

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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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Africa's growth tragedy : a retrospective, 1960-89

Easterly, William; Levine, Ross - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1995

Africa's economic history since 1960 fits the classical definition of tragedy: potential unfulfilled with disastrous consequences. The authors use one mehthodology - cross-country regressions - to account for sub-Saharan Africa's growth performance over the past 30 years and to suggest policies...

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The Soviet economic decline : historical and republican data

Easterly, William; Fischer, Stanley; DEC - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1994

Soviet growth for 1960-89 was the worst in the world, after controlling for investment and human capital. And relative performance worsens over time. The authors explain the declining Soviet growth rate from 1950 to 1987 by the declining marginal product of capital. The rate of total factor...

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Trade structure and growth

Lederman, Daniel; Maloney, William F. - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2003

Lederman and Maloney examine the empirical relationships between trade structure and economic growth, particularly the influence of natural resource abundance, export concentration, and intra-industry trade. They test the robustness of these relationships across proxies, control variables, and...

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Economic growth : a review of the theoretical and empirical literature

Renelt, David - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1991

In recent years, economists have developed new models of endogenous economic growth that consider policy influences on growth and divergent outcomes among countries. These models deal with such issues as growth, the operation of financial markets, trade policy, government expenditures, and...

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