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Unlike in Asia, the manufacturing sector has not (yet) become a driver of structural change in Africa. One common explanation is that the natural resource-focus of many African economies leads to Dutch disease effects. To test this argument for the case of newly found oil in Ghana we develop a...
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This study first provides an outline of Kaldor's growth model and then tests its relevance to the economic experience … manufacturing is the engine of economic growth, whereas the second proposition, also known as Verdoorn's law, asserts that there is … a strong positive casual relationship between manufacturing productivity growth and output growth, due to static and …
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Schumpeterian development is characterised by the simultaneous interplay of growth and qualitative transformations of … productivity growth, dynamic panel estimations are applied to a standard growth model modified to include specific structural … results give empirical substance to the evolutionary emphasis on Schumpeterian development as opposed to mere aggregate growth. …
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demonstrate how oil wealth may go hand in hand with structural change in the future. -- Transformation ; growth ; structural …
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Schumpeterian development is characterised by the simultaneous interplay of growth and qualitative transformations of … productivity growth, dynamic panel estimations are applied to a standard growth model modified to include specific structural … results give empirical substance to the evolutionary emphasis on Schumpeterian development as opposed to mere aggregate growth. …
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We document that the nature of business cycles evolves over the process of development and structural change. In countries with large declining agricultural sectors, aggregate employment is uncorrelated with GDP.During booms, employment in agriculture declines while labor productivity increases...
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economy model. Conditions under which factor reallocation is growth-enhancing are derived. An empirical error …
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prices on growth. In the short run, growth is hampered by increasing energy prices. In the long run, however, capital … inputs where growth increases with rising energy prices. In the empirical part, estimations using di¤erent channels and …, they can even be positive for growth. …
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network in amplifying sectoral dynamics on aggregate trend gross domestic product growth. This allows us to study the impact … of sectoral labor input and total factor productivity trend growth variation on the persistent decline in long-run output … growth. Our estimation reveals that sector-specific developments have historically accounted for half of this long …
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