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's signature place-based economic policies involving massive tax benefits for new industrial and infrastructure development …Does economic development have an unavoidable ecological cost? We examine the ecological impacts of one of India …
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Acemoglu and Johnson (2007) present evidence that improvements in population health do not promote economic growth. We show that their result depends critically on the assumption that initial health has no causal effect on subsequent economic growth. We argue that such an effect is likely,...
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Acemoglu and Johnson (2007) present evidence that improvements in population health do not promote economic growth. We show that their result depends critically on the assumption that initial health has no causal effect on subsequent economic growth. We argue that such an effect is likely,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010658709
implications for industrial development. Using data from Peru, we document substantial employer concentration and high self …
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We review Baumol's typology of productive, unproductive and destructive entrepreneurship. We argue that the typology is relevant for explaining the secular decline in business dynamics. To the existing explanations for this decline, we put forward the thesis that entrepreneurship has become less...
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This paper focuses on the question whether public infrastructure capital matters for labor productivity in China, both … over time and across regions. It finds that public infrastructure is a significant determinant of variations in labor … a short-run impact and the interregional effect as a longterm consequence of public infrastructure investment. …
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violence has significant distortive effects on domestic industrial development in Mexico and shed light on the characteristics … longitudinal plant-level data covering all of Mexico from 2005–2010, and using an instrumental variable strategy that exploits … plausibly exogenous spatiotemporal variation in the homicide rate during the outbreak of drug-trade related violence in Mexico …
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The unemployment and labor force participation gender gaps narrowed in Mexico after the 2008 global economic crisis …
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This report introduces two of the most successful industrial development models of the modern time the Japanese as a … which have served as a model for development in many newly industrialized economies. The experience gained from a review of … the two models is used to investigate the current industrial development in the Federal Kurdistan Region. In particular …
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controlling for local economic development. The electrification rate increased by about 65 percent over the study period and our …
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