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Agricultural Diversity, Structural Change and Long-run Development : Evidence from the U.S

Fiszbein, Martin - 2017

This paper examines the role of agricultural diversity in the process of development. Using data from U.S. counties and exploiting climate-induced variation in agricultural production patterns, I show that mid-19th century agricultural diversity had positive long-run effects on population...

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Indian Manufacturing Industry : Elephant or Tiger? New Evidence on the Asian Miracle

Hulten, Charles R. - 1999

We estimate the rate of total factor productivity growth in Indian manufacturing industry for the period 1973-1992, and compare the results to those obtained by Young for the East Asian Tigers. We then interpret our results in light of Krugman's hypothesis that, because the Asian Miracle was...

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Accounting for Growth : Comparing China and India

Bosworth, Barry - 2007

We compare the recent economic performances of China and India using a simple growth accounting framework that produces … estimates of the contribution of labor, capital, education, and total factor productivity for the three sectors of agriculture … roughly double that of India at the aggregate level, and also higher in each of the three sectors in both sub-periods. In …

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Sources of Growth in the Indian Economy

Bosworth, Barry - 2007

This paper empirically examines India's economic growth experience during 1960-2004, focusing on the post 1973 … acceleration. Careful attention is paid to data quality. The analysis focuses on two unusual dimensions of India's experience … the reallocation of resources out of agriculture to more productive activities in industry and services. But concerns are …

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Death and Development

Lorentzen, Peter - 2005

Analyzing a variety of cross-national and sub-national data, we argue that high adult mortality reduces economic growth by shortening time horizons. Higher adult mortality is associated with increased levels of risky behavior, higher fertility, and lower investment in physical and human capital....

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Systemic Crises and Growth

Ranciere, Romain - 2005

In this paper, we document the fact that countries that have experienced occasional financial crises have, on average, grown faster than countries with stable financial conditions. We measure the incidence of crisis with the skewness of credit growth, and find that it has a robust negative...

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From "Hindu Growth" to Productivity Surge : The Mystery of the Indian Growth Transition

Rodrik, Dani - 2004

Most conventional accounts of India's recent economic performance associate the pick-up in economic growth with the …

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The Cost of Fuel Economy in the Indian Passenger Vehicle Market

Chugh, Randy - 2011

To investigate how fuel economy is valued in the Indian car market, we compute the cost to Indian consumers of purchasing a more fuel-efficient vehicle and compare it to the benefit of lower fuel costs over the life of the vehicle. We use hedonic price functions for four market segments (petrol...

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The Service Sector as India's Road to Economic Growth

Eichengreen, Barry - 2011

While India is distinctive among developing countries for its fast-growing service sector, sceptics have raised doubts …

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Service-Led or Service-Biased Growth? : Equilibrium Development Accounting across Indian Districts

Fan, Tianyu; Peters, Michael; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

In many developing countries today, the structural transformation is a shift of employment out of agriculture into the … productivity growth. In an application to India, we find that productivity growth in consumer services such as retail and …

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