considering the importance of the impact of subsidy reform on the agricultural sector, the study aimed at understanding consequences of changes in the rates of production subsidy using general equilibrium model based on input-output table in the year 2001.the study conducted based on three scenarios containing step, down and finally removed rates of production subsidy. the effects on production...

This paper evaluates various channels through which foreign technology diffuses to the manufacturing sector of selected developing economies. These economies carry out very little (if any) own R&D so they rely on foreign technology to a much larger extent than developed economies. We investigate the direct effect of foreign R&D, as well as technology embodied in imports of intermediate and capi...

A remarkable feature of the current U.S. economic expansion has been its ability to shrug off the adverse effects of financial crises and economic slowdowns around the world for nearly two years. Employment has been expanding smartly and unemployment has continued to edge down. Recently, however, foreign-sector developments have triggered a sizable shift in the sectoral composition of U.S. empl...

manufacture of coke, refined petroleum products and nuclear fuel is one of the isic (international standard industrial classification of all economic activities, rev.2) that produced 8.5 percent of industry value-added in iran in 2007. isfahan, tehran, khuzestan, hormozgan, and markazi provinces accounted for 90 percent of the value added in this sector. to determine competitive advantage in th...

Purpose This study aims to examine the effect of structural transformation on poverty alleviation in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) countries with a higher share services as percentage gross domestic product (GDP). The specifically focuses value-added GDP agricultural, manufacturing, industrial, and service sectors using time series data from 1988 2019. Design/methodology/approach utilizes autoregres...