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indices, the paper investigates into the trends of globalization and disparities in globalization for a period of 11 years … finds that in all the three worlds, the trends in globalization are increasing while the trends in the disparities in … globalization are decreasing, which suggest global integration and convergence of national economies to a global order. We also find …
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successful development strategy. Hence, is the contemporary wave of globalization bringing an additional chance for sustained …
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This research proposes that the geographical distance from the location of the pre-industrial technological frontier has a non-monotonic and persistent effect on development. While remoteness from this frontier diminished imitation, it fostered the emergence of a culture conducive to innovation...
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globalization of 131 countries for eleven years, 1999-2009. We compare the different indices of globalization among themselves and … also with the Dreher-KOF index of globalization and find that among the different indices the Dreher-Chebyshev index is the … most representative one. Among the countries, we concentrate on the trends in globalization of India and her neighboring …
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globalization of 131 countries for eleven years, 1999-2009. We compare the different indices of globalization among themselves and … also with the Dreher-KOF index of globalization and find that among the different indices the Dreher-Chebyshev index is the … most representative one. Among the countries, we concentrate on the trends in globalization of India and her neighboring …
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This paper examines empirically whether and how regional integration leads to convergence and growth amongst developing … income disparities will lead to greater decreases in disparities. Whilst the level of intra-regional trade and incomes do not … explain changes in income disparities, the presence of a regional Development Finance Institutions (e.g. Central American or …
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We analyze recent contributions to growth theory based on the model of expanding variety of Romer [Romer, P. (1990). “Endogenous technological change”. Journal of Political Economy 98, 71–102]. In the first part, we present different versions of the benchmark linear model with imperfect...
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We propose a comprehensive decomposition of changes in a country's global market shares that accounts for the value added content of trade. We perform the analysis by combining two datasets – disaggregated trade data from UN Comtrade with internationally integrated Supply and Use Tables from...
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This paper studies the evolution of per capita income disparities across Latin America between 1950 and 2008 through an … analysis of beta and sigma convergence. Our main objective is to detect whether countries have converged to a common stead … state in per capita income or if on the contrary, there is evidence of convergence to differentiated stationary states. A …
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Global value chains offer countries unique opportunities to participate in and benefit from international trade by specializing in specific production stages and tasks. The objective of this study is twofold: (i) to investigate the evolution of African countries participation in global value...
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