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Financial constraints and innovation : Why poor countries don't catch up

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy - 2010

's innovation and export activities, using unique firm survey data which provides direct measures for innovations and firm … export and innovation activities to become substitutes although they are generally natural complements …

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The Higher Educational Transformation of China and Its Global Implications

Li, Yao Amber - 2008

This paper documents the major transformation of higher education that has been underway in China since 1999 and evaluates its potential global impacts. Reflecting China's commitment to continued high growth through quality upgrading and the production of ideas and intellectual property as set...

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Patents, Innovation, and Development

Hall, Bronwyn H. - 2020

I survey some recent research on the role of patents in encouraging innovation and growth in developing economies … discuss research on the implications of patents for international technology transfer and domestic innovation. This is … performance, and the impact on pharmaceutical patenting and domestic innovation. The conclusion suggests that patents may be …

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Zero-Sum Thinking, the Evolution of Effort-Suppressing Beliefs, and Economic Development

Carvalho, Jean-Paul; Bergeron, Augustin; Henrich, Joseph; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We study the evolution of belief systems that suppress productive effort. These include concerns about the envy of others, beliefs in the importance of luck for success, disdain for competitive effort, and traditional beliefs in witchcraft. We show that such demotivating beliefs can evolve when...

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Forced Displacement, the Perpetuation of Autocratic Leaders, and Development in Origin Countries

Cabra-Ruiz, Nicolas; Rozo, Sandra V.; Sviatschi, Maria - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

How does forced displacement shape development in origin countries? We examine the case of Venezuela, where over seven million people have been forcibly displaced. Our study compares municipalities with different proportions of foreign-born populations before and after the international oil...

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War Mobilization and Economic Development : World War II and Structural Transformation in India

Parvathaneni, Aneesha; Yang, Dean - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Can temporary wartime mobilization change the long-run development trajectory of an economy? We study how mobilization for World War II in colonial India influenced its subsequent development. From 1939 to 1945, the British colonial government purchased massive amounts of war materiel within...

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Skills, exports, and the wages of five million Latin American workers

Brambilla, Irene - 2010

"The returns to schooling or the skill premium is a key parameter in various literatures, including globalization and inequality and international migration. This paper explores the skill premium and its link to exports in Latin America, thus linking the skill premium to the emerging literature...

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Finance, inequality, and poverty : cross-country evidence

Beck, Thorsten - 2004

"While substantial research finds that financial development boosts overall economic growth, we study whether financial development disproportionately raises the incomes of the poor and alleviates poverty. Using a broad cross-country sample, we distinguish among competing theoretical predictions...

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The Great Escape : A Review Essay on Fogel's 'The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700-2100'

Deaton, Angus - 2005

In this essay, I review Robert Fogel's The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700-2100 which is concerned with the past, present, and future of human health. Fogel's work places great emphasis on nutrition, not only for the history of health, but for explaining aspects of current health,...

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Forms of Democracy, Policy and Economic Development

Persson, Torsten - 2005

The paper combines insights from the recent research programs on constitutions and economic policy, and on history, institutions and growth. Drawing on cross-sectional as well as panel data, it presents new empirical results showing that the form of democracy (rather than democracy vs....

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