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Dynamics of income distribution across Chinese provinces during 1978-1988

Li, Hong - School of Economics, Kingston University - 2001

This study attempts to examine the growth pattern of China’s economy during 1978-1998 from the perspective of income distribution dynamics. Motivated by the model of dynamic distribution, a transition matrix is derived from a panel of ratios of provincial real incomes to national averages...

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R & D sector outsourcing, human capital formation and growth in the context of developed versus developing economies

Basu, Sujata - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

An advanced economy relies on innovation activity for its further technology improvement. On the other hand a backward economy depends on both imitation from the world technology frontier and innovation activities - innovation being more skilled-intensive than imitation. In this paper I...

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Models of Competitiveness (I)

Dusa, Silvia - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

The current study presents the main models of competitiveness, developed by different organization or institutions, primarily those established by the World Economic Forum, International Institute for Management Development, European Commission and the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness,...

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Consideration on the single currency seen from a competitiveness perspective

Iordan-Constantinescu, Nicolae; Dusa, Silvia - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

Competitiveness is a concept referred to as a sine qua non condition of growth, at both micro and macroeconomic level. But there are few approaches looking at the single currency as an instrument of competitiveness measuring and promotion. The single currency represents a right step in the...

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Growth and the pollution convergence hypothesis: A nonparametric approach

Ordás Criado, Carlos; Valente, Simone; Stengos, Thanasis - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

The pollution-convergence hypothesis is formalized in a neoclassical growth model with optimal emissions reduction …. A Markov modeling approach predicts further cross-country absolute convergence, in particular for SOX. The latter … results hold in the presence of spatial non-convergence in per capita income levels within both regions. …

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A brief contribution to the debate over the impact if HIV/AIDS on economic growth

DelaCruz, Juan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

The objective of this paper is to obtain estimates of the effect of HIV prevalence on the growth rate of real GDP per capita between 1990 and 2004 that are not affected by the presence of simultaneity. To achieve this goal requires an instrumental variable that is correlated with changes in the...

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The Influence of Religious Beliefs and Ethnic Diversity on the HIV/AIDS Epidemic in Latin America and Muslim Countries

DelaCruz, Juan J - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

In the absence of substantial differences in the growth rates of per capita GDP across countries, what are the factors that explain the rapid spread of the HIV infection within a nation? This is an empirical question that needs to be explained. In order to elucidate the correlation between HIV...

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Gender, quality of life, and growth in Asia 1070 to 1990

Seguino, Stephanie - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2002

This paper examines the gender distribution of the benefits of economic growth in several Asian economies from 1970-90. Using Borda rank ordering, we compare the progress made in these countries towards closing the gender gap in well-being. In addition to commonly-used indicators, trends in the...

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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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Global financial crisis and foreign development assistance shocks in least developing countries

Das, Debasish Kumar; Dutta, Champa Bati - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

This paper evaluates whether the exogenous component of the global financial crisis affects OECD-DAC EU donor countries ODA disbursements to the LDCs and how it impacts on LDCs economic prosperity. Using both static and dynamic panel techniques, we find that global financial crisis in OECD-EU...

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