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The paper presents a new sectoral taxonomy that combines manufacturing and service industries within the same general framework. This exercise is relevant because it seeks to achieve a greater integration between the study of sectoral patterns of innovation in manufacturing and services, and to...
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channels seem to be complement, rather than substitute, strategies to compete in foreign markets; (3) sectoral specificities …
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This paper investigates the empirical relevance of a model of structural change and the growth of industrial sectors. The model analyses the process of diffusion of general-purpose technologies (GPTs) and how this affects the dynamic performance of manufacturing and service industries. The...
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Ghana has made considerable progress over the last 20 years in sustaining economic growth and reducing poverty. The Government of Ghana has declared its new development goal of reaching middle-income status by 2015. Achieving this goal will require Ghana to double its per capita income over the...
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"The rural nonfarm economy (RNFE) accounts for roughly 25 percent of full-time rural employment and 35-40 percent of rural incomes across the developing world. This diverse collection of seasonal trading, household-based and large-scale agroprocessing, manufacturing and service activities plays...
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the transmission of the growth from the North to the South through international markets, both through trade and through …
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This theoretical paper intends to provide an explanation of the implementation of behind-the-border policies, border policies, and of the inefficiency of trade negotiations. We consider a general equilibrium model of international trade with two identical countries, two commodities, a...
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have been undertaken by the Basel Committee to address information gaps in derivative markets (a source of huge losses to …
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prices via the response of traded commodities in domestic markets. It shows that the impact on local prices of shocks … originating in global markets lasts much longer than suggested by findings in the traditional literature on market integration … staple foods markets. The results suggests that it takes much longer for the impact of shocks on local prices to stabilize …
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absence or inadequacy of risk-mitigating institutions and markets, and the need to protect the world's poorest communities … expensive, and that reduced intervention can promote competition, help develop alternative institutions, and release funds for …
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