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Growth impacts of the exchange rate and technology
Márquez-Velázquez, Alejandro - 2016
suggest that developing countries grow faster when they are globally competitive in low-technology manufacturing and natural …
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Financial development, globalization, and structural transformation in developing countries
Avoumatsodo, Komla - 2023
Rodrik (2016) pointed out that late industrializing countries are experiencing a lower peak at lower income levels in the manufacturing employment share hump-shaped path. The present study develops a theoretical model to analyze the dynamics of industrialization and deindustrialization in...
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On the Measurement of Technological Progress Across Countries
Growiec, Jakub - 2011
technological progress at the world technology frontier (potential TFP growth, the “frontier shift” index). We then compare these … that these characteristics are sensitive to the precision of estimates of the world technology frontier, and then we … skilled labor and using US state-level data apart from cross-country data for estimating the world technology frontier …
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The Shape of Aggregate Production Functions : Evidence from Estimates of the World Technology Frontier
Growiec, Jakub; Pajor, Anna; Pelle, Dorota; Prędki, Artur - 2014
from the World Technology Frontier, estimated on the basis of annual data on inputs and output in 19 highly developed OECD …
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La desaceleración económica colombiana: se cosecha lo que se siembra
Ortiz, Carlos Humberto - In: Revista de Economía Institucional 11 (2009) July-December, pp. 107-137
The economic slowdown experienced in Colombia since 1980 is explained by the structural stagnation of the national economy and the escalation of violence associated with the expansion of drug trafficking. The available data do not reject this hypothesis. The article sustains that...
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The middle-income trap 2.0 : the increasing role of human capital in the age of automation and implications for developing Asia
Glawe, Linda; Wagner, Helmut - 2020 - Update March 2020
We modify the concept of the middle-income trap (MIT) against the background of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and the (future) challenges of automation (creating the concept of the "MIT 2.0") and discuss the implications for developing Asia. In particular, we analyze the impacts of...
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Left-handedness and economic development
Mariani, Fabio; Mercier, Marion; Pensieroso, Luca - 2021
This paper studies the interplay between left-handedness and economic development. To explain the decline and subsequent recovery of left-handedness observed over the last few centuries in the Western world, we propose a theory in which economic development influences the prevalence of...
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Sustained exchange rate misalignment and economic development
Martins, Guilherme Klein; Razmi, Arslan - 2022
Employing propensity score reweighting and event-based strategies, we provide evidence that sustained real exchange rate (RER) misalignments have significant effects on economic development: positive on GDP per capita and capital stock in the case of undervaluation, and negative on the capital...
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Distance to the Pre-industrial Technological Frontier and Economic Development
Özak, Ömer - 2018
This research explores the effects of distance to the pre-industrial technological frontiers on comparative economic development in the course of human history. It establishes theoretically and empirically that distance to the frontier had a persistent non-monotonic effect on a country's...
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Left-handedness and economic development
Mariani, Fabio; Mercier, Marion; Pensieroso, Luca - In: Journal of economic growth 28 (2023) 1, pp. 79-123
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