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From The Editor's Desk (October 2012)
Tony Addison UNU-WIDER is having a very active and successful autumn. Our climate change and development policy conference at the end of September...
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Is Manufacturing Still the Main Engine of Growth in Developing Countries?
Adam Szirmai Since the late 18th century, the manufacturing sector has been the main engine of growth and catch up. Presently, however, service sector...
Journal Article
Development Path of China and India and the Challenges for their Sustainable GrowthPart of Journal Special Issue The Rise of China and India
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Structural Change, Technology, and Economic GrowthPart of Journal Special Issue Southern Growth Engines and Technology Giants
Working Paper
Convergence Clubs in Cross-Country Life Expectancy DynamicsI model life expectancy in terms of physical and human capital and technology, the fundamental economic variables described by economic growth theories. For concreteness, the Solow model and a convergence club growth model by Howitt and Mayer (2001)...
Book Chapter
International Convergence or Higher Inequality in Human Development?Part of Book Advancing Development
Book Chapter
Interrelationships among Health, Environmental Quality, and Economic ActivityThis chapter examines the link between health indicators, environmental variables, and economic development, and the consequences of this relationship on economic convergence. In the early stage of economic development, the gain from income growth...
Book Chapter
Hunting for LeopardsThis chapter examines the country-level dynamics of long-run growth in Africa between 1975 and 2005. We are primarily interested in examining how growth has affected mobility and the distribution of income among countries. We analyse changes in the...
Working Paper
The role of environmental regulations and innovation in TFP convergenceThis is a pioneer study investigating the relationship between environmental compliance and TFP convergence for SMEs. It examines the impacts of environmental compliance, and its combination with innovation, on TFP convergence of manufacturing SMEs...
Book Chapter
Comparing Regional Development in China and IndiaPart of Book The Rise of China and India
Book Chapter
Convergence Clubs in Cross-Country Life Expectancy DynamicsPart of Book Perspectives on Growth and Poverty
Book Chapter
Quo Vadis? Inequality and Poverty Dynamics Across Russian RegionsPart of Book Spatial Inequality and Development
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Are knowledge monopolies driving global inequality?
In a new release for the UNU-WIDER and Cambridge University Press Elements in Development Economics series, I look at global capitalist economic...
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