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This paper provides a basic understanding of the nature of emerging key information and communication technologies, and establishes the distance of countries from high-quality access to the internet - the necessary threshold one needs to cross in order to make use of such technologies. The paper...
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We introduce two separate datasets - the Global Consumption Dataset and the Global Income Dataset - containing an unprecedented portrait of consumption and income of persons over time, within and across countries, around the world. The benchmark version of the dataset presents estimates in...
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Most Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development countries have accepted, in principle at least, the 50-year-old commitment of contributing 0.7 per cent of gross national income to supporting the development of countries in the Global South. But what if all countries made a universal...
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a century ago, when Myrdal published his Asian Drama. The stranglehold of low growth has been broken, its population …
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Internationalized production, that is, production in a country controlled by firms based in another country, grew from about 4.5% of world output in 1970 to over 7% in 1995. The importance of internationalized output fell substantially in developing countries until around 1990 but has been been...
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constraints are less pressing. This is not only because of additional resources produced by economic growth, but also because …
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growth reducing in both Africa and Latin America, with the most striking changes taking place in Latin America. The bulk of … to which) structural change contributes to overall productivity growth. In countries with a relatively large share of … natural resources in exports, structural change has typically been growth reducing. Even though these "enclave" sectors …
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growth and volatility in developing countries. The results suggest that it is difficult to establish a robust causal … relationship between financial integration and economic growth. Furthermore, there is little evidence that developing countries … have been consistently successful in using financial integration to stabilize fluctuations in consumption growth. However …
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evidence on financial development and economic growth and concludes that financial development is indeed a key element in … promoting economic growth. It then asks why if financial development is so beneficial, it often doesn't occur. It then goes on …
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We present a model of growth and technology transfer based on the idea that technologies are specific to particular …-run convergence and growth, than either the standard neoclassical model or simple endogenous-growth models …
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