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The Impact of Public Spending on the Performance of Microfinance Institutions

Janda, Karel; Zetek, Pavel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

This paper investigates the role of public expenditures and general government debt in microfinance performance. Our panel regression applied to the data of microfinance institutions (MFIs) in Latin America and the Caribbean confirms the high significance of public finance for the growth of...

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Economie et droit de la régulation des infrastructures : perspectives des pays en voie de développement

Chevalier, Jean-Marie; Frison-Roche, Marie-Anne; … - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2008

Après avoir relevé les divers défis affectant la régulation des industries de réseau et discuté de la pertinence des modèles disséminés par les institutions financières des pays en voie de développement, l'ouvrage met en lumière les inquiétudes des acteurs de l'industrie et les...

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Effects of Public Investment in Infrastructure on Growth and Poverty in India

Murty, K. N.; Soumya, A. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006

Counter factual policy simulations of sustained increase in public investment in infrastructure, financed through borrowing from commercial banks, shows substantial increase in private investment and thereby output in this sector. Further, due to increase in absorption, real private investment...

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Convergence of Total Health Expenditure as a Share of GDP: Evidence from Selected OECD Countries

Fallahi, Firouz - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

This paper studies convergence in the ratio of total health expenditures to GDP (HEGDP) for a sample of OECD countries … over the period 1960-2006. Stochastic convergence is tested using unit root tests, without and with a structural break …. Moreover, beta-convergence is examined by applying a method that allows for a structural break and is robust to the presence of …

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Monnaie, finance et économie réelle

Brender, Anton; Pisani, Florence; Gagna, Emile - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2015

Les fonctions de la finance sont souvent méconnues. L’idéologie libérale en est largement responsable : elle a fait croire qu’en laissant la finance à elle-même nos économies seraient dotées de mécanismes capables d’allouer au mieux l’épargne qui s’y dégage. La dernière...

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The impacts of the food, fuel and financial crises on households in Nigeria. A retrospective approach for research enquiry

Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel; Chiripanhura, Blessing - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This paper examines the impacts of the financial, food and fuel crises on the livelihoods of low-income households Nigeria. It uses primary household level data from Nigeria to analyse the impacts of induced price variability on household welfare. Our results indicate that aggregate shocks have...

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Real GDP per capita since 1870

Kitov, Ivan; Kitov, Oleg - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

The growth rate of real GDP per capita in the biggest OECD countries is represented as a sum of two components – a steadily decreasing trend and fluctuations related to the change in some specific age population. The long term trend in the growth rate is modelled by an inverse function of real...

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Inclusive Growth in Andhra Pradesh - Challenges in Agriculture, Poverty, Social Sector and Regional Disparities

Dev, S. Mahendra - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007

This paper deals with inclusive growth in Andhra Pradesh. Growth may be higher in the last two decades but inclusive growth or equitable development has been missing. It is like running a train with engine only without connecting bogies and people to the engine. According to us, important...

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Development of System Dynamic Model of Latvia’s Economic Integration in the EU

Skribans, Valerijs - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

Joining the European Union big opportunities in the international markets have opened for Latvia. Paper purpose is to investigate influence of international integration processes on development of economy of Latvia. Latvia's incoming in EU increased the amount of received means from structural...

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Energy Consumption and Economic Growth: Evidence from Cameroon

Fondja Wandji, Yris D. - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2013

The aim of this paper is to study the nature of the relationship between energy consumption and economic growth in Cameroon through a three-step approach: (i) study the stationarity of the chronic, (ii) test of causality between variables, and (iii) estimate the appropriate model. The study...

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