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Growth and inequality convergence: the role of environmentally related impacts on human capitalWe examine inequality convergence over the past three decades and ask if environmentally related impacts on health, and their effect on human capital, are responsible for the slow rate of inequality reduction in countries...
Inequality Convergence environmental impactWorking Paper
Regional and subregional analyses of macroeconomic policy strategies for growth and equality in Southern AfricaWe investigate the relevance of beta (β, absolute and conditional) and sigma (σ) convergence in the economies of the Common Monetary Area of Southern Africa and in the provinces of the Republic of South Africa using panel data, allowing an...
Convergence Growth InequalityWorking Paper
The role of environmental regulations and innovation in TFP convergence: Evidence from manufacturing SMEs in VietnamThis 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...
Environmental practices Innovation ConvergenceBook Chapter
Hunting for Leopards :: Long-Run Country Income Dynamics in AfricaThis 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...
Economic development Gross national product ConvergenceBook Chapter
Interrelationships among Health, Environmental Quality, and Economic Activity :: What Consequences for Economic Convergence?This chapter examines the link between health indicators, environmental variables, and economic development, and the consequences of this relationship on economic convergence...
Environment and economic development Environment Gross national productBook Chapter
Indonesian Industrialization: A Latecomer Adjusting to CrisesFrom the book: Pathways to Industrialization in the Twenty-First Century
Economic development Economic policy IndustrializationBook Chapter
Learning from Asia's Success: Beyond Simplistic 'Lesson-Making'From the book: Pathways to Industrialization in the Twenty-First Century
Commercial policy Economic development Economic policyBlog
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 attracted over 150 researchers and policy makers from across the world...
Economic development Elite (Social sciences) Equality and inequalityWorking Paper
Indonesian Industrialization: A Latecomer Adjusting to CrisesThis paper examines Indonesia’s industrialization performance and policies, including its latecomer status, its generally rapid growth since the mid-1960s, its pronounced policy and performance episodes, and its ambivalent embrace of globalizat...
Economic development Economic policy IndustrializationWorking Paper
Learning from Asia’s Success Beyond Simplistic 'Lesson-Making'Many international organizations, governments and academics concerned with economic development look to Asia’s success, recommending that other poor countries follow similar models and paths of development...
Commercial policy Economic development Economic policyWorking Paper
Interrelationships among Health, Environment Quality, and Economic Activity: What Consequences for Economic Convergence?This paper examines the link between health indicators, environmental variables, and economic development, and the consequences of this relationship on economic convergence...
Environment and economic development Environment Gross national productJournal Article
Structural Change, Technology, and Economic Growth: Brazil and the CIBS in a Comparative PerspectivePart of Journal Special Issue Southern Growth Engines and Technology Giants
Economic development Industries International tradeBook Chapter
India's Economic Growth: Lessons for the Emerging EconomiesFrom the book: The Rise of China and India
Business cycles Economic development ConvergenceBook Chapter
Comparing Regional Development in China and IndiaFrom the book: The Rise of China and India
Economic development Equality and inequality ConvergenceBook Chapter
Global Growth and Distribution: Are China and India Reshaping the World?From the book: Southern Engines of Global Growth
Economic forecasting Globalization Income distributionBlog
Is Manufacturing Still the Main Engine of Growth in Developing Countries?
Adam Szirmai Since the late 18 th century, the manufacturing sector has been the main engine of growth and catch up. Presently, however, service sector value added accounts for over 70 per cent of GDP in advanced economies...
Economic growth Industrialization Convergence