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Sub-Saharan African states urgently need expanded and more dynamic private sectors, more efficient and effective infrastructure/utility provision, and increased investment from both domestic and foreign sources. Privatization is one way to address these problems. But African states have...
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Many African state-owned enterprises (SOEs), particularly those in infrastructure, have a long history of poor performance. From the outset, SOE financial and economic performance generally failed to meet the expectations of their creators and funders. By the late 1970s, the situation was...
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In this study we analyze the effects of corruption on income inequality and poverty. Our analysis advances the existing literature in four ways. First, instead of using corruption indices assembled by various investment risk services, we use an objective measure of corruption: the number of...
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economies. Our approach is to estimate, using dynamic panel data methods, a growth equation over 23 countries for the period … 1990-2001. Among our results, we find that mass privatisation has significant positive effect on growth across a wide … development of the capital market, which is significantly correlated with economic growth. …
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The standard neoclassical growth model with Cobb-Douglas production predicts a monotonically declining saving rate … data. We introduce two non-standard features of preferences into a neoclassical growth model with CES production …
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The question of the spatial impacts of the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has animated the intellectual and policy debate for a long time. At the beginning of the 1990s the rise of the Internet brought a new surge of debate: it was argued that the Internet would free the economy...
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The standard neoclassical growth model with Cobb-Douglas production predicts a monotonically declining saving rate …, implies transitional dynamics of the saving rate that accords well with empirical evidence. This holds true even in a growth …
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particular, endogenous growth theory suggests that economic growth is linked with: (1) sectors with high intensity in R&D and … problem. In general and contrary to previous works, we conclude that tourism, on its own, cannot explain the higher growth …
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We consider the relationship between tourism and economic growth for Latin American countries since 1985 until 1998 … estimates of the relationship between economic growth and growth in tourists per capita conditional on main macroeconomic … variables. We show that the tourism sector is adequate for the economic growth of medium or low-income countries, though not …
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that climate change will modify their probability distributions and their consequences. The long-term growth models used in … averaging short-term processes like extreme events over the five- or ten-year time step of a classical long-term growth model …
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