into persistent differences in economic development. Specifically, it establishes that pre-modern economic specialization … pre-modern economic specialization are associated with greater skill-biased occupational heterogeneity, economic …

to economic specialization in the pre-modern era. The findings are robust to a host of geographical, institutional …

to economic specialization in the pre-modern era. The findings are robust to a host of geographical, institutional …

that higher levels of intra-ethnic diversity were conducive to economic specialization in the pre-modern era. The findings …

The role of regulatory quality as one of the so-called deep determinants of growth has emerged as an important issue in … economic research in the past 20 years. The positive or negative growth effects of a countryś regulatory framework are …. Therefore, the two potential determinants to growth might be interlinked. So far there is very little empirical evidence on the …

The paper shows that the relationship between GDP per capita and levels of specialization can be predicted differently …

(labour force growth). The model predictions are confirmed in a sample of 132 countries (1988–2014), including 53 low …-income countries, for which we measure export variety using product-level trade data. The influence of technology differences on export …

The paper shows that the relationship between GDP per capita and levels of specialization can be predicted differently …

Developing countries have greatly benefited from globalization, coinciding with economic growth and structural … transformation. The standard trade theory postulates that trade openness contributes to poverty alleviation directly by changing … factor proportions of production and indirectly through the trickledown effect of growth. Existing multicountry studies using …

Productivity in agriculture or services has long been understood as playing an important role in the growth of … manufacturing. In this paper we present a general equilibrium model in which manufacturing growth is stimulated by non … options for stimulating manufacturing growth: (1) a country imports more non-manufacturing goods from a foreign country with …