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Can China’s Growth be Sustained? A Productivity Perspective
(2006)
China’s unorthodox approach to economic transition has resulted in sustained high growth. However, in recent years Chinese economists have increasingly referred to the growth pattern as “extensive”, generated mainly through ...
The Changing Structure of Swedish Foreign Aid
(2016-03)
The study investigates how the composition and character of aid of Swedish aid has changed over
time, and what effects these changes have had for the potential to realize key aspects of the Paris agenda such as ownership, ...
Can Japan Make a Comeback?
(2004)
Since the beginning of the 1990s Japan has experienced economic stagnation.
This paper discusses its causes and the prospects for recovery. It considers both the
macroeconomic problems and the viability of the Japanese ...
Offshoring and Occupational Wages: Some empirical evidence
(2008-08-05)
Offshoring has changed the pattern of international competition; labor in specific occupations rather than whole firms and sectors are now facing competition. Accordingly, wages in offshorable occupations are affected in ...
Can Africa Reduce Poverty by Half by 2015?
(Blackwell Publishing, 2007)
This study uses simulations to explore the possibility of halving the percentage of people living in extreme poverty in Africa by 2015. It is shown that initial levels of inequality and per capita consumption determine the ...
Can Japan Make a Comeback?
(Blackwell, 2005)
Kenya’s Development Path and Factor Prices 1964-2000
(2004)
This study analyses how changes in factor abundance and trade policy have affected factor prices in Kenya since 1964. First there was a period of capital deepening, but this was reversed from 1982. As a result, there has ...
Poverty Transition and Persistence in Ethiopia, 1994-2004
(Elsevier, 2008)
Firm Productivity and Exports: Evidence from Ethiopian manufacturing
(2008-04-30)
This paper examines the causal relationship between exporting and productivity using a ten years long plant-level panel data set from an annual census of Ethiopian manufacturing, rarely available in the sub-Saharan Africa. ...
Can Africa Reduce Poverty by Half by 2015? The Case for a Pro-Poor Growth Strategy
(2005)
This study uses simulations to explore the possibility of halving the percentage of people living in extreme poverty in Africa by 2015. A pro-poor growth-scenario and a constant-inequality scenario are compared. It is shown ...