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the recent literature. -- Growth ; structural change …
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The process of economic development is characterized by substantial rural-urban migrations and a decreasing share of agriculture in output and employment. The literature highlights two main engines behind this process of structural change: (i) improvements in agricultural technology combined...
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This paper analyzes the effects of structural change on the rates of growth of wages, employment and per-capita income … by the varying shares of sectoral employment in total employment. It is shown that the growth rates of GDP and per … different growth dynamics: high but falling growth rates under dualistic development with labour surplus, low but rising growth …
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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 paper analyzes the effects of structural change on the rates of growth of wages, employment and per-capita income … by the varying shares of sectoral employment in total employment. It is shown that the growth rates of GDP and per … different growth dynamics: high but falling growth rates under dualistic development with labour surplus, low but rising growth …
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growth model. Policy-induced increases in banks' willingness and ability to lend result in new consumer lending, boosting …
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This paper develops a stylized multi-sector growth model of China's economy. We choose a neoclassical modeling approach … and focus on the reform process under Deng Xiaoping as China's main growth driver since 1978. Following the literature, we …-trade reform period (1992-present). Reflecting the neoclassical view, our model explains China's growth process since 1978 as a …
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sector. This discrepancy in technological proximity between sectors influences the differential productivity growth rates in …
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010886853