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Using a panel data model, we study the effects of regional and industry-level traits on new business formation (NBF) for 164 industries across 266 Chinese prefectures between 1998 and 2007. The objective is to provide empirical estimates on effects of prefecture traits on entry rates, and in...
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advantage and development potential for the majority of LDCs, via its extensive upstream and downstream linkages …
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possible problems with overreaction to public information. Furthermore, we suggest a new focus for development policy. …
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In this paper I argue that the manufacturing sector still has an important role to play in Africa's development …
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Central Europe has experienced one of the most impressive growth and convergence stories of recent times. In particular, this has been achieved on the back of foreign-owned, capital-intensive manufacturing production in the automotive sector. With large domestic supplier networks and high skill...
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Research findings of the latest round of the wiiw-GDN project on development in the Balkans are surveyed. Historical … and structural deficiencies of development in the Balkan countries are discussed in detail with emphasis of the role of … the policy framework biased towards rigidity, and having in mind the needed structural adjustment, development policies …
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The manufacturing industry's loss in participation, phenomena called “deindustrialization”, has been observed for the Brazilian economy for a while and seems to have intensified from mid-2000s. However, the literature has not developed a consistent or integrated analysis of this process. We...
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development. In the past half-century, these countries raised agricultural productivity faster than population growth and … displayed sufficient state capability to direct change towards a respectable level of industrial development. In this period …: agriculture, industry, foreign trade and investment, and social development. By using a more socially grounded analytical approach …
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the last fifty years. This paper provides an outline of some of the most important trends of this development and analyses …, China, and India - to describe some of the strategies which Asian economies used in order to induce industrial development …
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Improved governance and lower start-up costs may not be sufficient for encouraging the type of entrepreneurship that matters for economic growth. Using panel data on 60 countries spanning the period 2003-07 this paper establishes that (i) opportunitymotivated entrepreneurship (as opposed to...
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