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Accumulation and Productivity Growth in Industrializing Economies

Robertson, Peter E.; Landon-Lane, John S. - 2003

Historically, episodes of rapid growth are accompanied by significant structural change. In this paper we therefore aim to quantify the extent to which factor accumulation induces structural change and productivity growth in industrializing economies. To fix ideas we present an extension of...

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Potential switchovers in comparative advantage: Patterns of industrial convergence

Landesmann, Michael; Stehrer, Robert - 2000

Although there exists a vast literature on convergence and divergence of income levels across countries or regions at the aggregate level, there is only little work on convergence and/or diver- gence processes of productivity and wage levels at the more disaggregated industrial level. These are...

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Renewable energy policy in the presence of innovation: Does government pre-commitmnt matter?

Madlener, Reinhard; Neustadt, Ilja - 2010

In a perfectly competitive market with a possibility of technological innovation we contrast guaranteed feed-in tariffs …. Specifically, we model decisions about the technological innovation with convex costs within the framework of a game …-commitment. We find that for the case of technological innovation with convex costs subsidy policies are preferable over quota …

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Innovation and imitation in a model of North-South trade

Borota, Teodora - 2010

analyzes a model of North-South trade and endogenous growth through innovation and imitation that can predict the observed … both the innovation in the North and the imitational lag of the South. Opening to trade increases the growth rate and …

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Technological Capability as a Determinant of FDI Inflows: Evidence from Developing Asia & India

Palit, Amitendu; Nawani, Shounkie - 2007

This paper contributes to the empirical literature on determinants of FDI by addressing the question: Why do some developing countries from Asia continue to receive more FDI, while others from the region have fallen behind? It finds R&D-based innovative capacities, and the ability to apply such...

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Emerging through Technological Capability: An Overview of India's Technological Trajectory

Ray, Amit Shovon - 2008

India's emergence in the world economy over the last decade, has often, in popular discourse, been attributed, at least to a large extent, to its sustained efforts towards technological learning and capacity building. In this paper we present an overview of India's technological trajectory with...

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Bundling of Services and Household Welfare in Developing Countries Using Panel Data: The Case of Peru

Chong, Alberto; Hentschel, Jesko; Saavedra-Chanduví, Jaime - 2004

Using panel data for Peru for the period 1994-2000, we find that when households receive two or more services jointly, the welfare increases of the household, as measured by changes in consumption, are larger than when services are provided separately. Such an increase appears to be more than...

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UNLOCKING PRODUCTIVE ENTREPRENEURSHIP INAFRICA’S LEAST DEVELOPEDCOUNTRIES

Brixiová, Zuzana - William Davidson Institute <Ann Arbor, Mich.> - 2010

In Africa’s least developed countries (LDCs), escape from poverty and convergence to livingstandards of more advanced economies depends critically on structural transformation and theemergence of productive entrepreneurship that would accelerate growth and job creation. So far,however,...

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Emigration and democracy

Docquier, Frédéric; Lodigiani, Elisabetta; Rapoport, … - 2011

Migration is an important and yet neglected determinant of institutions. The paper documents the channels through which emigration affects home country institutions and considers dynamic-panel regressions for a large sample of developing countries. We find that emigration and human capital both...

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Impact of Special Economic Zones on Employment, Poverty and Human Development

Aggarwal, Aradhna - 2007

This study aims at examining the impact of Special Economic Zones (SEZs) on human development and poverty reduction in India. It identifies three channels through which SEZs address these issues: employment generation, skill formation (human capital development), and technology and knowledge...

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