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- Bigsten, Arne, 1947, et al.
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Aid and Reform in Tanzania
- 2001
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Ingår i: Aid and Reform in Africa. Ed by Shanta Devarajan, David Dollar, Torgny Holmgren. - Washington, D.C., USA : The World Bank. - 0821346695 ; , s. 287-360
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- Bigsten, Arne, 1947
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Can Japan Make a Comeback?
- 2004
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- 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 economic model itself. The potential roles of fiscal, monetary, exchange rate, and structural policies are discussed.
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- Bigsten, Arne, 1947, et al.
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Debt Relief and Growth: A Study of Zambia and Tanzania
- 2004
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Ingår i: Debt Relief for Poor Countries. - Basingstoke and New York : Palgrave MacMillan in association with UNU-WIDER. - 1403934827 ; Ch II:9, s. 181-205
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- Bigsten, Arne, 1947, et al.
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Do African Manufacturing Firms Learn from Exporting?
- 2002
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In this paper, we use firm-level panel data for the manufacturing sector in four African countries to estimate the effect of exporting on efficiency. Estimating simultaneously a production function and an export regression that control for unobserved firm effects, we find both significant efficiency gains from exporting, supporting the learning-by-exporting hypothesis, and evidence for self-selection of more efficient firms into exporting. The evidence of learning-by-exporting suggests that Africa has much to gain from orientating its manufacturing sector towards exporting.
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- Bigsten, Arne, 1947, et al.
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Dynamics of Poverty in Ethiopia
- 2004
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This paper addresses issues related to the dynamics of income poverty using unique household panel data for urban and rural areas of Ethiopia covering the period 1994-97. The percentage of households that remained in poverty was twice as large in urban areas as in rural areas. This suggests that income variability is a serious problem in rural areas, while the persistence is a key feature of urban poverty. The paper also discusses household characteristics that are correlated with the incidence of chronic poverty as well as vulnerability to poverty. A strategy that promotes consumption smoothing through say access to credit can work well in rural areas, while income or employment generation are required for poverty alleviation in urban areas.
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- Bigsten, Arne, 1947, et al.
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Efficiency, Technical Progress, and Best Practice in Chinese State Enterprises (1980-1994)
- 2000
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In spite of rapid economic growth and swift structural change during the last two decades, China's industrial reform is far from complete, especially with regard to state enterprises (SOEs). Although troubled with huge financial losses, heavy debt, and substantial over-staffing, SOEs will continue to play a crucial part in the government policy to maintain social stability and economic growth in China. This study, based on samples of about 700 state enterprises during 1980-94, investigates productivity performance of the SOEs using Data Envelopment Analysis and Malmquist Index. Our empirical results show that average technical efficiency had been low among the sample SOEs. Considerable productivity growth was found, but it was mainly accomplished through technical progress rather than efficiency improvement. Regression analyses indicate that wage incentives and education had positive impacts on productivity growth, while large scale was an important determinant of whether an SOE was applying best practice technology. It is also shown that large SOEs were more likely to generate technical progress. These findings are consistent with the industrial structural adjustment program initiated by the government in 1994, which has focused on improving productive efficiency via redundancies and technology upgrading, and on building its best SOEs into conglomerates
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- Bigsten, Arne, 1947, et al.
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Globalisation and Structural Adjustment in Africa
- 2004
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Ingår i: Globalization and the Southern African Economies. - Uppsala : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet/The Nordic Africa Institute. - 9171065326 ; , s. 36-58
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- Bigsten, Arne, 1947
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Globalisation and the Asia- Pacific Revival
- 2003
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This paper reviews evidence on the evolution of international economic integration of Asia-Pacific countries, and discusses the extent to which this explains their recent growth success. It starts with a review of some theoretical arguments in the growth and globalisation debate, which is followed by a presentation of facts about Asia-Pacific international economic integration and growth relative to other regions of the world. Then we discuss the causes of the growth acceleration in the Asia-Pacific region and reflect on the relationships between policy reforms, openness, and per capita income growth. Finally, we draw some tentative conclusions about future growth in the region.
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