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Industrialization and growth: threshold effects of technological integration

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  • Carlos Humberto Ortiz
  • Javier Andrés Castro
  • Erika Raquel Badillo

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Countries enjoy the benefits of industrialization for economic growth after surpassing a certainthreshold of technological integration in manufacturing. Some available data do not reject thishypothesis. This feature of development is consistent with the observed gaps in long-run growthrates between rich and poor economies.

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  • Carlos Humberto Ortiz & Javier Andrés Castro & Erika Raquel Badillo, 2009. "Industrialization and growth: threshold effects of technological integration," Revista Cuadernos de Economia, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, FCE, CID, December.
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    Keywords

    threshold of technological integration; industrialization; growth divergence; education.;
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    JEL classification:

    • F43 - International Economics - - Macroeconomic Aspects of International Trade and Finance - - - Economic Growth of Open Economies
    • L16 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance - - - Industrial Organization and Macroeconomics; Macroeconomic Industrial Structure
    • L60 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Manufacturing - - - General
    • O11 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
    • O14 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Industrialization; Manufacturing and Service Industries; Choice of Technology

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