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The paper attempts to identify the reasons behind the differential performance of the registered and unregistered … growth performance but not that of the registered segment. Besides discussing the probable reasons behind the absence of a … affected the performance of the unregistered segment. It seems that trade liberalisation benefitted the unregistered sector …
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Since the early phase of the country modernization, the center of gravity of China’s economy has been alternately located in the coastal area (Blue China) and in inland area (Yellow China). Such a shift is now taking place in China’s economic geography: the interior regions are catching up...
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Since the mid-2000s, the center of gravity of China's economic growth has shifted from the coastline to the inland and the gap in GDP per capita between the two areas has narrowed. This macroeconomic catch-up reflects, with a time lag, the convergence process which has been at work in...
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The idea that innovation leads to positive economic performance has become a sort of truism in recent years. However … scattered. In many ways, the jury is still out. First of all, there is still little agreement about what ‘performance’ means …. The range of indicators adopted in the literature varies widely: financial performance, market shares, new products …
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This work attempts to shed light on the “information technology productivity paradox”. Employing a large data set of Italian manufacturing firms we compute ICT marginal productivity across different cluster of firms and the impact of information and communication technology (ICT) on output...
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This research advances the hypothesis that natural land productivity in the past, and its effect on the desirable level of cooperation in the agricultural sector, had a persistent effect on the evolution of social capital, the process of industrialization and comparative economic development...
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The paper is an attempt to observe the effects of the development of rent-seeking or lobbying groups on the growth pace of a number of countries. The relationship between the policy suggestions of competing interest groups, and economic policies implemented both at micro and macro level after...
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In this paper we show the benefits of regional connectivity and specialization to growth. Starting with one region we show how welfare measured by utility per head increases as the number of connected regions increase. We assume a common connectivity infrastructure implemented by satellite,...
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After twenty-five years of economic transition economic performance varies considerably in transition countries, while …
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Negli ultimi vent’anni i paesi europei hanno introdotto numerose riforme economiche orientate a rendere le istituzioni economiche più “favorevoli ai mercati”, nella convinzione che l’ambiente regolativo costituisca un fondamentale fattore di crescita economica. La prima parte di questo...
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