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Progress in rail reform
Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2001
On 5 August 1998 the Treasurer referred progress in rail reform for inquiry and report within 12 months. The Commission is to identify progress made in rail reform, as well as areas which could be subject to further reforms and the benefits of pursuing further reforms, and is to differentiate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118885
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MODELLING THE HEALTH SECTOR MODELLING THE HEALTH SECTOR:NIGERIA
NWAOBI, DR. GODWIN CHUKWUDUM - EconWPA - 2005
GOOD HEALTH IS A CRUCIAL PART OF WELL-BEING BUT SPENDING ON HEALTH CAN BE JUSTIFIED ON ECONOMIC GROUNDS. THE GOAL OF REDUCING POVERTY PROVIDES A DIFFERENT BUT EQUALLY POWERFUL CASE FOR HEALTH INVESTMENTS. HOWEVER, IF POLICYMAKERS ARE TO ACCELERATE THE SUBSTANTIAL HEALTH GAINS OF RECENT DECADES,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408428
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Governance Infrastructure and U.S. Foreign Direct Investment
Globerman, Steven; Shapiro, Daniel - EconWPA - 2004
This paper examines the statistical importance of governance infrastructure as a determinant of U.S. foreign direct … investment. In broad terms, governance infrastructure represents attributes of legislation, regulation, and legal systems that … recipient is estimated. The results indicate that countries that fail to achieve a minimum threshold of effective governance are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005119470
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Human Capital: Infrastructural and Superstructural Constraints to Economic Performance across U.S. Native American Reservations and Trust Lands
Amavilah, Voxi Heinrich S - EconWPA - 2004
aspects of institutions are involved - infrastructure and superstructure. The paper then applies a simple model to 50 U …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125631
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Human Capital and Income across U.S. Native American Reservations and Trust Lands
Amavilah, Voxi Heinrich S - EconWPA - 2005
institutions are involved - infrastructure and superstructure. It develops and then applies a simple model to 50 U.S. reservation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125647
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Economic Performance in a Cross-Section of U.S. Native American Economies
Amavilah, Voxi Heinrich S - EconWPA - 2004
Institutions either promote or constrain economic performance, but which parts of institutions advance or restrict performance, and why do economies sharing similar institutions sometimes perform differently? This paper is a modest attempt at addressing a small part of these questions. It...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125690
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CORRUPTION AND BRIBERY IN THE NIGERIAN ECONOMY: AN EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION
NWAOBI, DR. GODWIN CHUKWUDUM - EconWPA - 2004
about state capacity in Nigeria by taking stock of economic and governance issues. Using a simple growth model, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076578
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CORRUPTION AND BRIBERY IN THE NIGERIAN ECONOMY
NWAOBI, GODWIN CHUKWUDUM - EconWPA - 2004
KNOWLEDGE ABOUT STATE CAPACITY IN NIGERIA BY TAKING STOCK OF ECONOMIC AND GOVERNANCE ISSUES. USING A SIMPLE GROWTH MODEL, WE …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118720
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Health Economics : some stylized facts
ULMANN, Philippe - EconWPA - 2003
The study of the stylized facts of economic growth has allowed an advance of this field of economic analysis in its empirical and theorical works. Today, Health Economics is faced with new requirements of society, i.e. better care at a sustainable cost. Furthermore, since the problems linked...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076927
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Explaining the Negative Coefficient Associated with Human Capital in Augmented Solow Growth Regressions
Jean-Louis, Arcand; d'Hombres, Béatrice - EconWPA - 2005
In this paper we consider different explanations for why the coefficient associated with human capital is often negative in growth regressions once country-specific effects are controlled for, whereas the coefficient in question is strongly positive in cross-sectional or panel results based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005126183