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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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ICT Capital and Services Complementarities. The Italian Evidence
Quatraro, Francesco - HAL - 2011
This article investigates whether Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) hardware and services play a complementary role in boosting economic growth. The main argument is that investments in ICT fixed capital are a necessary but not sufficient condition leading to productivity gains,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010820549
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La llegada del PT al gobierno brasileño: ¿un cambio de rumbo respecto a las posibilidades de desarrollo del país?
García, Bibiana Medialdea - HAL - 2013
Este trabajo parte de la idea de que la reproducción del subdesarrollo brasileño se explica por la persistencia de un conjunto de elementos que operan como obstáculos de carácter estructural, a los que nos referimos con el nombre de límites estructurales al desarrollo económico....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010820787
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Inequality, inequality of opportunity, and growth: what are we talking about? Theory and empirical investigation in Brazil
Teyssier, Geoffrey - HAL - 2013
Building on the existing literature, a synthetic approach intended to ease the understanding of the notion of inequality of opportunity is developed. In turn, this paper tests a convincing hypothesis explaining the mixed evidence found by empirical studies regarding the instrumental effect of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010821001
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Bank Competition, Institution and Economic Development: Evidence from Asia during 1999-2007
Soedarmono, Wahyoe - HAL - 2010
From a sample of Asian countries over the period 1999-2007, this paper investigates the link between bank competition and economic development. In general, although banking market power has a U-shaped relationship with economic growth, banking market power tends to improve economic growth....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010821093