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Countries successful in achieving growth and equity throughout their development process could provide continuing gross …
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Kenya is a small open economy that depends on energy for growth. Since independence in 1963, it has experienced … tremendous urban and rural population growth, placing an increasing strain on energy resources and economic development … causality running from urban population to GDP. The vector error decomposition results imply that urban growth will continue to …
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We use the concept of the product space to analyze the key features of the transformation process in Africa with a focus on the agricultural sector. Between 1962 and 2008, we find that both specialization and diversification occur for the overall economy and across sectors. Our findings also...
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Investment in education to increase economic growth, as one form of human development, has gained economists‟ and … policy makers‟ interest. It establishes human capital that makes a substantial contribution to economic and income growth and … theories and models have used to examine the relationship between education and economic growth. Most of them paid attention to …
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growth on all goods with major high income countries is outstanding in the most recent years China’s trade growth with …This paper delves into China’s differential growths in trade flows with high income and developing countries by … focusing on bilateral content of trade data over the time period 1978-2005. Unlike other studies, we account for end use of …
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's trade growth patterns with major high income countries clearly indicate that the adjacency-neighborhood partners alone is … unlikely to explain its unprecedented growth in exports and imports. China's outstanding performance in trade growth can be …This paper delves into China's differential growths in trade flows with high income countries by focusing on bilateral …
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The objective of this paper is to analyze sources of labor productivity growth in the Kansas farm sector over the … productivity growth into three components: (1) technological catch-up, (2) technological change, and (3) capital deepening. Kernel …
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disease, on human capital investment decisions and income growth. This research is particularly relevant to Sub-Saharan Africa … given the dramatic reduction in life expectancy due to HIV/AIDS and the potential lasting effects on growth. Our results … indicate that as life expectancy shortens so does schooling inducing a lower growth rate of income. These relationships are …
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labour productivity grows faster. Secondly, geographical factors as well as freer trade influence growth. Finally, we find … growth and new data sets (Larson and al., 1999) as a guide, this study finds some empirical regularities between agricultural … labour productivity growth, investment and education, as also for environmental factors, for 44 countries during the period …
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PV-optimality in a capital-resource economy can imply decreasing utility over some portion of the time horizon. Various criteria have been proposed to maintain intergenerational equity defined as nondeclining utility, but these have some limitations and problems. This paper proposes a new...
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