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Promoting growth-enhancing structural change : evidence from a panel of African, Asian, and Latin American countries

Trenczek, Jan - 2016 - This version: April 2016

In what the authors name “a first pass through the data”, McMillan et al. (2014) have recently addressed the question: what determines the magnitude of growth-enhancing structural change - defined as gains to average labor productivity resulting from a reallocation of labor across sectors?...

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Structural transforming paths across counties

Bah, El-hadj - In: Emerging markets finance & trade : a journal of the … 47 (2011), pp. 5-19

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Asia's industrial transformation : the role of manufacturing and global value chains

Felipe, Jesus - 2018

This paper argues that the single most important factor that explains East Asia's development success was its fast … as the "engine of growth." It is in the context of industrialization that openness played an important role in East Asia … exchange) and industrialization. Part 1 of the paper documents the extent of structural transformation in developing Asia …

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The economic complexity of the Visegrád countries and the role of trade with Germany

Soyyiğit, Semanur; Michalski, Bartosz - In: Central European economic journal 9 (2022) 56, pp. 219-236

The contemporary division of production in the global economy poses challenges typical for dependent market economies of the Visegrád countries (V4: Czechia, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia). This comparative study explores whether the foreign trade of V4 with Germany contributes to their...

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The structural transformation of Thailand : the role of policy distortion

Temsumit, Navarat; Hongsilp Sriket - In: Asian development review : studies of Asian and pacific … 40 (2023) 1, pp. 203-245

Thailand and the Republic of Korea were developing at a similar pace during the 1960s. However, the Republic of Korea’s economic development rapidly expanded from the 1970s onward, leaving Thailand lagging far behind. This paper investigates the labor productivity slowdown in Thailand using a...

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Strategies for Structural Transformation in South Asian Countries

Freire, Clovis - 2013

Growth in South Asia has not resulted in structural transformation and increase of productive capacities. This paper … presents a methodology to identify the opportunities for countries in South Asia to build their productive capacities and … addition to its relevance to the formulation of inclusive development policies in South Asia, this paper contributes to the …

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Will There Be New Emerging-Market Economies in Africa by the Year 2020?

Berthélemy, Jean-Claude; Soderling, Ludvig - 2021

makes relatively optimistic assumptions, Africa is not likely to reach Asian tiger levels of growth. The results also …

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The Republic of Korea's Economic Growth and Catch-Up : Implications for the People's Republic of China

Lee, Jong-Wha - 2016

This study investigates the economic growth and catch-up of the Republic of Korea over the past half-century. The gap of output per worker between the Republic of Korea and United States has decreased rapidly, as the Republic of Korea's lower per capita income, relative to its potential level,...

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The deep determinants at more subtle stages of development : the example of the middle-income trap phenomenon

Glawe, Linda; Wagner, Helmut - 2017

The so-called 'deep determinants' of economic growth and development (namely, geography, institutions, and integration) have been found to be decisive for the break out of stagnation and for explaining cross-country income differences by many empirical studies. However, so far, very little has...

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Culture, diffusion, and economic development

Harutyunyan, Ani; Özak, Ömer - 2016

This research explores the effects of culture on technological diffusion and economic development. It shows that culture's direct effects on development and barrier effects to technological diffusion are, in general, observationally equivalent. In particular, using a large set of measures of...

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