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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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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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“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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Social Capital as an Engine of Growth: Multisectoral Modelling and Implications
Bofota, Youyou Baende; Boucekkine, Raouf; Bala, Alain Pholo - HAL - 2012
We propose a multisector endogenous growth model incorporating social capital. Social capital only serves as input in the production of human capital and it involves a cost in terms of the final good. We show that in contrast to existing alternative specifications, this setting assures that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010933921
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Effects of urbanization on economic growth and human capital formation in Africa
Arouri, Mohamed El Hedi; Youssef, Adel Ben; … - HAL - 2014
The objective of this paper is to investigate the impacts of urbanization on human capital andeconomic growth in Africa. It seeks to contribute to the urbanization-growth debate byinvestigating how urbanization is linked to human capital accumulation and economic growth.More precisely, compared...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010930231
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Financial integration and financial development in transition economies : what happens during financial crises ?
Brezigar-Masten, Arjana; Coricelli, Fabrizio; Masten, Igor - HAL - 2010
This papers provides an empirical analysis of the role of financial development and financial integration in the growth dynamics of transition countries. We focus on the role of financial integration in determining the impact of financial development on growth, distinguishing "normal times" from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010549087
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Is High Public Debt Always Harmful to Economic Growth? Reinhart and Rogoff and some complex nonlinearities
Minea, Alexandru; Parent, Antoine - HAL - 2012
In their already-famous 2010 article "Growth-in-a-Time-of-Debt" (AER-100(2)-pp.-573-78), Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff show that average post-WW2 economic growth is dramatically declining in advanced economies, once the debt-to-GDP ratio is above a 90% threshold. We explore the relevance of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010550439