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size of government tends to increase, predictably in an attempt of redistribution, or to buy out the electorate, so that … some countries, the evidence presented here is rather informative of what to expect in terms of government size during …
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The paper examines how much governance matters for long run economic development in poor countries. Answering this … effects, and possible feedback from growth into governance will violate the exogeneity assumptions of many estimators. Bias … interaction between governance and growth shows considerable country-specificity. In the presence of heterogeneity, estimation …
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of institutional quality considered in our study, namely government efficiency, regulatory quality, rule of law …
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compatibility and asymmetric information framework. We characterize the decision-making problem in government and public sector as … analysis on some African Countries and show that the quality of governance influences GDP growth, Employment Creation, and …
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the study is the significant role played by governance in explaining the long-term pattern of domestic investment in … imperative to incorporate the significant role played by governance. …
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This paper highlights an aspect of mega-events that has been neglected: the changing composition of tourist arrivals during and after theevent. The change happens because, in the FIFA World Cup, a quota of countries participates from each continent and this opens up new tourismmarkets. We show...
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Recent empirical migration literature in South Africa suggests that access to physical and human capital, in the way of finance and education respectively, are key factors in increasing one’s probability of migrating. This paper attempts to extend this literature by directly measuring the...
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This paper develops a new index of economic uncertainty for South Africa for the period 1990-2014 and analyses the macroeconomic impact of changes in this measure. The index is constructed from three sources: (1) Disagreement among professional forecasters about macroeconomic conditions using...
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asylum seekers also applied to explaining the ‘expected well-being’ of this group. These factors include: government …
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The Kuznets inequality-development hypothesis can be tested with time-series data rather than the cross-section analyses found in earlier literature. Single-country time-series analysis cannot be done without addressing endogeneity between output and inequality. South Africa has been...
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