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Gender, Growth, and Poverty Reduction: Special Program of Assistance for Africa, 1998 Status Report on Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Blackden, C.M.; Bhanu, C. - World Bank Group - 1999

Comparison between Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and East Asia indicates that gender inequality in education and employment … reducing gender-based asset inequality in SSA is an important development goal. This report documents the structural role of … case that reducing gender inequality would increase growth, efficiency, and welfare. The authors make key recommendations …

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Macroeconomic Control in the Transforming Chinese Economy: An Analysis of Long-Run Effect.

Fung, M.K.Y.; Ho, W.M.; Zhu, L. - 1996

The purpose of this paper is to study the issue of macroeconomic control in China. The investigation is conducted within the context of an endogenous growth model that incorporates the major institutional features of the transforming Chinese economy.

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Macroeconomic Control in the Transforming Chinese Economy: An Analysis of Long-Run Effect.

Fung, M.K.Y.; Ho, W.M.; Zhu, L. - Department of Economics, University of Waterloo - 1996

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Multilateralisation of Manufacturing Sector Comparisons: Issues, Methods and Empirical Results.

Rao, D.S.P.; Timmer, M. - SOM Research Institute, Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde - 2000

This paper examines the feasibility of constructing a consistent set of multilateral comparisons of manufacturing sector output and productivity within the framework of the ICOP project. A major objective of the paper is to construct truly multilateral comparisons using the existing data base of...

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Scandinavian Evidence on Growth and Age Structure

Andersson, B. - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 1998

The age distribution is seldom taken into consideration in macroeconomic, and macroeconometric papers. This in spite of the fact that established economic theories predict that demographic factors will affect the aggregate economy. This paper focuses on economic growth and investigates...

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Comparing Contemporary Indian Economic Reform with the Developmental Experience of China and the Asian NICs.

Sen, G. - Département d'Économie / Department of Economics, … - 1996

Two issues are of special interest: the process of economic reform in India, in historical context and comparative perspective. The second question is the medium term future of the Indian economy in the light of experience elsewhere in Asia.

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Growth and the Public Sector: a Reply.

Agell, J.; Lindh, T.; Ohlsson, H. - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 1999

Fvlster and Henrekson (1998) claim that they, by addressing a number of econometric problems, can establish that it is likely that economies with a large public sector grow more slowly than economies with a small public sector. But their regressions are fundamentally flawed. Re-estimating their...

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Comparing Contemporary Indian Economic Reform with the Developmental Experience of China and the Asian NICs.

Sen, G. - 1996

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On the Causality Between Saving and Growth: Long - and Short-Run Dynamics and Country Heterogeneity.

Andersson, B. - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 1999

The temporal interdependence between saving and output has been in focus in a number of recent empirical studies. Results from these studies have compelled some authors to question the traditional notion of a causal chain where saving leads growth through capital accumulation. This paper...

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Cross-Country Technology Adoption: Making the Theories Face the Facts.

Comin, D.; Hobijn, B. - C.V. Starr Center for Applied Economics, Department of … - 2003

We examine the diffusion of more than twenty technologies across twenty-three of the world ’s leading industrial economies. Our evidence covers major technology classes such as textile production, steel manufacture, communications, information technology, transportation, and electricity for...

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