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MANAGEMENT & DEVELOPMENT OF HAPPINESS : A PRIORITY IN SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Dr.VSR.Subramaniam - EconWPA - 2005
happiness, and it can induct problems as well. GDP, a vague relation builder is used as an index to measure the progress and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408439
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A PUSH TO GEORGE ( IN ) BUSH
DR.VSR.SUBRAMANIAM - EconWPA - 2005
An imperative need has arisen to provide a Constructive push to the President Bush. American population, Corporate units, Expatriates and all nations with their currency related to US $, are not happy in the current $ dipping situation. Even the currencies of poor nations are galloping upward in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556940
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Does Foreign Direct Investment Transfer Technology Across Borders? A Reexamination
Bitzer, Jürgen; Kerekes, Monika - EconWPA - 2005
Reexamining foreign direct investment (FDI) as a potential channel for knowledge diffusion -- based on industry data from seventeen OECD countries during the period 1973-2000 -- we find that FDI-receiving countries benefit strongly from FDI-related knowledge spillovers. We do not find evidence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005412744
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Real Income Stagnation of Countries, 1960-2001
Reddy, Sanjay G.; Minoiu, Camelia - EconWPA - 2005
This paper examines the phenomenon of real-income stagnation (in which real-income growth is negligible or negative for a sizable uninterrupted sequence of years). It analyzes data for four decades from a large cross-section of countries. Real income stagnation is a conceptually distinct...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062410
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China’s Economic Growth 1978-2025: What We Know Today about China’s Economic Growth Tomorrow
Holz, Carsten A. - EconWPA - 2005
China over the next two decades. Extrapolating past real GDP growth rates into the future, the size of the Chinese economy … development and trade theories (structural change, catching up, and factor price equalization). Second, decomposing China’s GDP … of Chinese laborers through 2015 and possibly several years after allows inferences about future GDP growth. Short of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062447
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Economic Growth and the Financial Economics of Capital Accumulation under Shifting Technological Change
Amavilah, Voxi Heinrich S; Newcomb, Richard T. - EconWPA - 2004
This paper develops a simple and practical framework for characterizing (long-run) economic growth and fluid capital accumulation under shifting technological change. The framework specifies a technological change that depends on exogenous and endogenous factors as well as the interaction...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408266
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Has New Zealand benefited from its investments in research & development?
Johnson, Robin; Razzak, W A; Stillman, Steve - EconWPA - 2005
We use panel data for nine industries to evaluate research and development (R&D) investments in New Zealand over the past forty years. We estimate the impact of R&D stocks in a particular industry on output per person in that industry and on output per person in the rest of the economy. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556002
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Meditating on "Slow Growth in Africa" - New Evidence or Just Ol' Stuff?
Amavilah, V. Heinrich - EconWPA - 2003
This abstract will be reformatted upon submission. You don't need to format for line-breaks here!!!!! This will be a new paragraph but you can't indent - sorry. Now remember the good old days of cards. Punched holes in The Journal of Economic Perspectives (Summer, 1999: 3-114) published a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556058
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China’s Economic Growth 1978-2025: What We Know Today about China’s Economic Growth Tomorrow
Holz, Carsten A - EconWPA - 2005
China over the next two decades. Extrapolating past real GDP growth rates into the future, the size of the Chinese economy … development and trade theories (structural change, catching up, and factor price equalization). Second, decomposing China’s GDP … of Chinese laborers through 2015, if not several years after, allows inferences about future GDP growth. Short of some …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556063
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Towards Building A New Consensus About New Zealand’s Productivity
Razzak, W A - EconWPA - 2004
GDP per capita or total factor productivity (TFP). TFP is typically computed using growth accounting (i.e., calibrating a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556741