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Transport Infrastructure, City Productivity Growth and Sectoral Reallocation : Evidence from China

Yang, Yang - 2019

This paper examines the impact of highway expansion on aggregate productivity growth andsectoral reallocation between … indirect impact of trade costs on city productivity. I then construct an instrumentalvariable to examine the causal impact of … highways on economic outcomes and the underlyingchannels. The results suggest that highways promoted aggregate productivity …

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Commodity Price Volatility and the Sources of Growth

Cavalcanti, Tiago - 2012

as on the three main growth channels: total factor productivity, physical capital accumulation, and human capital …

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Small Island States in the Pacific : The Tyranny of Distance

Becker, Chris - 2012

This paper seeks to document key characteristics of small island states in the Pacific. It restricts itself to a limited number of indicators which are macro-orientated - population, fertility of land, ability to tap into economies of scale, income, and geographic isolation. It leaves aside...

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Regional Disparities, Growth, and Inclusiveness

Spatafora, Nicola; Floerkemeier, Holger; Venables, Anthony - 2021

We discuss regional disparities in economic performance and living standards. We first set out some key facts, and provide a conceptual framework to help analyze whether such disparities are efficient, or instead reflect market and/or policy failures. We examine whether policy attempts to reduce...

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The Price of Capital Goods : A Driver of Investment Under Threat

Lian, Weicheng - 2019

the faster productivity growth in the capital goods producing sectors relative to the rest of the economy, and deeper … additional channel through which rising trade tensions and sluggish productivity could threaten real investment growth going …

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Crop Selection and International Differences in Aggregate Agricultural Productivity

Alvarez, Jorge - 2019

A large share of cross-country differences in productivity is explained by differences in agricultural productivity … productivity differences …

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When is Growth Pro-Poor? Cross-Country Evidence

Kraay, Aart - 2006

Growth is pro-poor if the poverty measure of interest falls. This implies three potential sources of pro-poor growth: (a) a high rate of growth of average incomes; (b) a high sensitivity of poverty to growth in average incomes; and (c) a poverty-reducing pattern of growth in relative incomes. I...

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Social Spending in Korea : Can it Foster Sustainable and Inclusive Growth?

Elekdaǧ, Selim Ali - 2012

Going forward, Korea faces two closely related challenges: sustaining economic growth against the backdrop of a rapidly aging population and ameliorating income inequality. This paper argues that a gradual increase in social spending could promote more sustainable and inclusive growth in Korea....

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Fiscal Reforms, Long-Term Growth and Income Inequality

Acosta‐Ormaechea, Santiago - 2017

We estimate the effects on growth of nine fiscal reform episodes in seven high-income countries using the Synthetic Control Method. These episodes are selected using an indicator-based approach applied to the evaluation of growth-friendly fiscal reforms during 1975-2010. We find that in reform...

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Inequality, Poverty, and Growth : Cross-Country Evidence

Iradian, Garbis - 2021

This paper examines the empirical relationship between inequality and growth, and analyzes the impacts of growth, inequality, and government spending on poverty reduction. A new panel dataset has been assembled on inequality and poverty that reduces measurement error and ensures comparability...

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