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Firewood Collections and Economic Growth in Rural Nepal 1995-2010: Evidence from a Household Panel

Baland, Jean-Marie; Libois, Francois; Mookherjee, Dilip - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

A household panel data set is used to investigate the effects of economic growth on firewood collection in Nepal between 1995 and 2010. Results from preceding cross-sectional analyses are found to be robust: (a) rising consumptions for all but the top decile were associated with increased...

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Pollution and Growth: What Do We Know?

Grossman, Gene - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1993

water quality. Pollution may rise with growth, because an increased scale of economic activity means more emissions, ceteris … pollution there is no evidence at all that a turning point has yet been reached. The paper goes on to discuss the economic …

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The Agricultural Origins of Time Preference

Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

This research explores the origins of the distribution of time preference across regions. It advances the hypothesis, and establishes empirically, that geographical variations in natural land productivity and their impact on the return to agricultural investment have had a persistent effect on...

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Telecommunications Infrastructure And Economic Development: A Simultaneous Approach

Röller, Lars-Hendrik; Waverman, Leonard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

This paper investigates how telecommunications infrastructure affects economic growth. This issue is important and has received considerable attention in the popular press concerning the creation of the 'information superhighway' and its potential impacts on the economy. We use evidence from 21...

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TFP Growth in British and German Manufacturing, 1950-96

Crafts, Nicholas; Mills, Terence C - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

The Paper considers the accuracy of traditional TFP growth estimates using an econometric methodology which takes account of scale economies, fixed factors of production and adjustment costs to reveal underlying ‘pure technological change’. The results suggest that these biases vary...

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Do Exporters Gain From VERs?

de Melo, Jaime; Winters, L. Alan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1990

Previous literature has concentrated on the rent transfer accruing to exporting countries when a VER is binding. This paper studies the efficiency and distributional effects arising when VERs force factors out of industries in which they are most productive. A theoretical model of the industry...

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Price Competition, Innovation and Profitability: Theory and UK Evidence

Symeonidis, George - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

&D-intensive manufacturing industries, while it caused a significant rise in concentration in these industries. In the short run profitability …

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Manufacturing and the Convergence Hypothesis: What the Long Run Data Show

Broadberry, Stephen N - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1992

manufacturing sector, where there is evidence of a much greater degree of stationarity of comparative labour productivity … manufacturing suggest that convergence of GDP per worker must have occurred through trends in other sectors and through …

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Comparative Productivity in East and West German Manufacturing Before Reunification

Van Ark, Bart - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

manufacturing industries. The comparisons are based on the industry of origin approach which makes use of information on value added … are based on values at producer prices for individually matched products. This study shows that for the manufacturing … German time series on real output in manufacturing to a factor cost standard, the comparative productivity level of East …

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Human Capital and Productivity in Manufacturing during the Twentieth Century: Britain, Germany and the United States

Broadberry, Stephen N; Wagner, Karin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

environment. British manufacturing also adopted an American style `mission oriented' approach to R&D in contrast to the German …

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