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Financial Development and Growth: A Re-Examination using a Panel Granger Causality Test
Hurlin, Christophe; Venet, Baptiste - HAL - 2008
In this paper we investigate the causal relationship between financial development and economic growth. We use an innovative econometric method which is based on a panel test of the Granger non causality hypothesis. We implement various tests with a sample of 63 industrial and developing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008793833
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When unstable, growth is less pro poor
Guillaumont, Patrick; Korachais, Catherine - HAL - 2011
is a factor slowing down poverty reduction. But it can also result in slower poverty reduction for a given average rate … of growth, due to poverty traps, often examined at the microeconomic level. Testing a model of poverty change on a panel … of data for 70 countries from 1981 to 1999, we do find that income instability results in a lower poverty reduction for a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008805948
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Real Exchange Rate and Economic Growth: Evidence from Chinese Provincial Data (1992 - 2008)
Chen, Jinzhao - HAL - 2012
This paper studies the convergence, and the role of internal real exchange rate on economic growth in the Chinese provincial level. Using informal growth equation à la Barro [1991] and dynamic panel data estimation, we find conditional convergence among the coastal provinces and among inland...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010738816
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Export sophistication and economic growth: evidence from China
Jarreau, Joachim; Poncet, Sandra - HAL - 2011
country (China) over the period 1997-2009. We confirm Hausmann, Hwang and Rodrik (2007)'s prediction that regions that … contributors to the global upgrading of China's exports. This finding suggests that the contribution of assembly trade and foreign …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010775815
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“Leftist”, “Rightist” and Intermediate Decompositions of Poverty Variations with an Application to China from 1990 to 2003
Bresson, Florent; Labar, Kelly - HAL - 2011
This paper investigates the influence of invariance axioms in the decomposition of observed poverty variations into …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008805947
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Poverty and firewood consumption : A case study of rural households in northern China
Démurger, Sylvie; Fournier, Martin - HAL - 2011
This paper discusses the determinants of firewood consumption in a poor township in rural northern China, with a … poverty-environment hypothesis since household economic wealth is a significant and negative determinant of firewood …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008792306
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Global Burden of Disease and Economic Growth
Audibert, Martine; Motel, Pascale Combes; Drabo, Alassane - HAL - 2011
Relationships between health and economic prosperity or economic growth are difficult to assess. The direction of the causality is often questioned and the subject of a vigorous debate. For some authors, diseases or poor health had contributed to poor growth performances especially in low-income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008793479
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The Economic Growth Impact of Hurricanes: Evidence from US Coastal counties
Strobl, Eric - HAL - 2009
We estimate for the first time the impact of hurricane strikes on local economic growth rates and how this is reflected in more aggregate growth patterns. To this end we assemble a panel data set of US coastal counties' growth rates and construct a novel hurricane destruction index that is based...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008794023
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Thresholds in Aid Effectiveness
Wagner, Laurent - HAL - 2011
Is the big push hypothesis consistent with capacity constraints in the study of aid effectiveness? Big push hypothesis suggests the existence of a minimum threshold below which aid is not effective, while the constraints referred to by the concept of absorptive capacity suggests the existence of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008805931
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Freight transport and economic growth : an empirical explanation of the coupling in the EU using panel data
Brunel, Julien - HAL - 2005
The link between transport and economic growth is nowadays understood behind the so-called issue of coupling. Transport intensity or transport elasticity to economic production are generally used to assess the link. In this paper, road freight intensity is decomposed into four factors. A...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008789323