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Vietnam aims to double its GDP over the coming decade, an objective that the World Bank has called “ambitious but attainable” (World Bank 2000a). To achieve this end, the private nonagricultural sector will need to grow even more rapidly. For instance, industrial GDP will need to rise by 10% annuall[r]
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This paper proposes methods to incorporate firm heterogeneity in the standard inputoutput table–based approach to portray the domestic segment of global value chains in a country. The analysis uses Chinese firm census data for the manufacturing and service sectors, along with constrained optimizatio[r]
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This paper examines whether financial development boosts the growth of small firms more than large firms and hence provides information on the mechanisms through which financial development fosters aggregate economic growth. We define an industry’s technological firm size as the firm size implied by[r]
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The beamforming SNR for the given_c_is greater than the two smallest eigenvalues in partc because the channel matrix has one large eigenvalue and two very small eigenvalues.[r]
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This paper summarizes financial inclusion across Africa. First, it provides a brief overview of the African financial sector landscape. Second, it uses the Global Financial Inclusion Indicators (Global Findex) database to characterize adults in Africa that use formal and informal financial services[r]
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