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Manufacturing and Trade Liberalisation of India: Continuing the Debate
Ghosh Dastidar, Sayantan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011163520
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Blue and Yellow China: Spatial Dynamics and Convergence
Lemoine, Françoise; Poncet, Sandra; Ünal, Deniz - In: Panorama du CEPII (2014) 2
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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The Geographic Pattern of China's Growth and Convergence within Industry
Lemoine, Françoise; Mayo, Grégoire; Poncet, Sandra; … - Centre d'études prospectives et d'informations … - 2014
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010827767
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Innovate or Die? A critical review of the literature on innovation and performance
Brusoni, Stefano; Cefis, Elena; Orsenigo, Luigi - KITeS, Centre for Knowledge, Internationalization and … - 2006
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005087137
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ICT productivity and firm propensity to innovative investment: learning effect evidence from italina micro data
Atzeni, Gianfranco Enrico; Carboni, Oliviero Antonio - EconWPA - 2005
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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Natural Land Productivity, Cooperation and Comparative Development
Litina, Anastasia - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
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 Contribution of ICTs to Productivity Growth in Canada and the United States in the 1990s
Rao, Someshwar; Tang, Jianmin - In: International Productivity Monitor 3 (2001) Fall, pp. 3-18
The slower productivity growth in Canada relative to that experienced in the United States in the second half of the 1990s has been a matter of great concern to Canadians, with a wide variety of explanations put forward to account for this development. A key issue is whether this slower...
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Editor's Overview
Sharpe, Andrew - In: International Productivity Monitor 3 (2001) Fall, pp. 1-2
The third issue of the International Productivity Monitor produced by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards contains six articles that deal with a wide range of issues in the productivity area. Topics covered are the contribution of the information and communications technology sector to...
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Lobbying and Growth: Explaining Differences among OECD Countries
Mehmet, Babacan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008873557
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Endogenous Economic Growth through Connectivity
Zon, Adriaan van; Mupela, Evans - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2010
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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