increasing exports to China. The results of a model of Chinese and West African cotton exchanges suggests that Chinese imports of … restrictions on textile and clothing imports from China. Available data suggests that the shortfall thus imposed on China, in terms … of textile exports to the EU and to the US, is significant. West African cotton-producing countries are very dependant on …

“capital accumulation channel” and the “total factor productivity (TFP) growth channel”. This paper carries out the first … undervaluation of the currency boost the overall productivity level in the economy? If so, does this “undervaluation …-induced” productivity improvement significantly enhance growth? And finally, what is the magnitude of the TFP growth channel compared to the …

domestic technology diffusion. I identify four de facto research centers in China and investigate whether the effect of R …’ productivity gains from R&D spillovers from the research cluster decline with (i) increasing geographic distance away from the …

This paper analyzes the impact of Research and Development (R&D) on the productivity of China's high technology … differences across three major regions in China, we use a novel semiparametric approach that allows us to model heterogeneities …

productivity of the different factors at the regional level. In this way, we present a new perspective for recent causes of China …The literature on regional disparities in China is both broad and deep. Nonetheless much of its focus has been on the … multiregional input-output tables and disaggregated employment data, we decompose change in labor productivity growth for seven …

times and places. Productivity in cotton textiles, for example, grew at computer-industry rates, and continued to into the … have shown that China led the West in 1500, and maybe as late as 1750, then fell dramatically behind. It was the …

production of silks and then especially in the 18th-century production of the new cotton textiles, with those major innovations … areas not well treated by Reynolds and other historians: in the fields of mining, metallurgy, and textiles – including the … cotton industry of the initial phase of the Industrial Revolution. The study also necessarily analyses as well the necessary …

still higher than the cost of transporting cheap textiles (says) overland in the late 13th century. Indeed, this steep rise … give up the export of the very cheap, light textiles and focus instead on luxury woollens that could better ‘bear the … textiles from north-west Europe were exported to Italy and the Mediterranean basin, because, inter alia, the overland distance …

also controlled the now thriving fustian-textile (linen-cotton) industry, had two related consequences: (a) it was a major … with the Levant, to acquire not only Asian spices but also large quantities of Syrian cotton to feed the booming German …

I study the slow adoption of ring-spinning in Great Britain's cotton industry at the end of the 19th century, which has …], Lazonick [1981, 1981b]). To this purpose I use firm-level data from all of Lancashire's cotton firms over several years. The … data are from the Worrall's Cotton Spinners' and Manufacturers' Directories for the years 1885, 1886-1887, 1890, 1894, 1902 …