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Education Funding and Regional Convergence

de la Croix, David; Monfort, Philippe - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 1999

The aim of this paper is to discuss the process of regional convergence within the framework of an overlapping … education funding systems and compare their performance in terms of growth rates and pace of convergence between two …-off between long run growth rate and short run convergence. In such choice, the initial capital stock and the extent of regional …

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An empirical note on growth and convergence across Russian regions

Solanko, Laura - EconWPA - 2003

This empirical note uses publicly available Goskomstat data to investigate income growth and convergence across Russian … regions. Using data for 1992-2001, we find strong sigma divergence simultaneously with beta convergence. he results indicate …

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Ecological Barriers and Convergence: a Note on Geometry in Spatial Growth Models

FABBRI, Giorgio - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2014

conditions that guarantee, in the long run, the convergence of the detrended capital across locations and those inducing spatial …

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THE TWO FACES OF GLOBALIZATION: AGAINST GLOBALIZATION AS WE KNOW IT

Milanovic, Branko - EconWPA - 2003

The paper shows that the current view of globalization as an automatic and benign force is flawed: it focuses on only one, positive, face of globalization while entirely neglecting a malignant one. The two key historical episodes that are adduced by the supporters of the “globalization as it...

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The Roads To and From Serfdom

Lagerlof, Nils-Petter - EconWPA - 2002

The institution of slavery displays a puzzling historical pattern: it is found mostly at intermediate stages of agricultural development, in horticultural societies, and less frequently among hunter-gatherers and societies at more advanced agrarian stages. We explain this rise-and- fall pattern...

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Factor Endowments, Trade Direction, and Growth Performances of the Americas and East Asia in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Lai, Hongyi Harry - EconWPA - 1997

Factor-endowment based trade with the leading economy helps to explain the differing development performances of the Americas and East Asia in the past two centuries. Between 1830 and 1945, labor-abundant Britain, the most advanced country, traded heavily with land-abundant countries in the...

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Counting chickens when they hatch: The short-term effect of aid on growth

Clemens, Michael A.; Radelet, Steven; Bhavnani, Rikhil - EconWPA - 2004

Past research on aid and growth is flawed because it typically examines the impact of aggregate aid on growth over a short period, usually four years, while significant portions of aid are unlikely to affect growth in such a brief time. We divide aid into three categories: (1) emergency and...

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Openness and Human Capital as Sources of Productivity Growth: An Empirical Investigation

Söderbom, Måns; Teal, Francis - EconWPA - 2004

Do openness to trade and higher levels of human capital promote faster productivity growth? That they do is a key implication of several versions of endogenous growth theory. To answer the question we use panel data on 93 countries spanning the 1970-2000 period. Controlling for fixed effects as...

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The political economy of reforms: Empirical evidence from post- communist transition in the 1990s

Kim, Byung-Yeon; Pirttilä, Jukka - EconWPA - 2003

Using a novel data set from post-communist countries in the 1990s, this paper examines linkages between political constraints, economic reforms and growth. A dynamic panel analysis suggests public support for reform is negatively associated with income inequality and unemployment. Both the ex...

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Population Growth in European Cities: weather matters – but only nationally

Paul_Cheshire; Stefano_Magrini - EconWPA - 2004

This paper investigates differences in the rate of growth of population across the large city-regions of the EU12 between 1980 and 2000. The US model which assumes perfect factor mobility does not seem well adapted to European conditions. There is evidence strongly suggesting that equilibrating...

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