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Impact of Foreign Capital Inflows (FCI) on Economic Growth in Pakistan [1975-2004]
Mohey-ud-din, Ghulam - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
The Two-Gap Model suggests that the Poor countries have to rely on the foreign capital inflows (FCI) to fill the two Gaps: Import-Export Gap and the Savings-Investment Gap. There are many forms of the foreign capital inflows like FDI (Foreign Direct Investment), External loans & Credit,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835856
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“Economic freedom” and economic growth: questioning the claim that freer markets make societies more prosperous
Cohen, Joseph N - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
A conventional reading of economic history implies that free market reforms rescued the world’s economies from stagnancy during the 1970s and 1980s. I reexamine a well-established econometric literature linking economic freedom to growth, and argue that their positive findings hinge on two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257910
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“Economic freedom” and economic growth: questioning the claim that freer markets make societies more prosperous
Cohen, Joseph N - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
A conventional reading of economic history implies that free market reforms rescued the world’s economies from stagnancy during the 1970s and 1980s. I reexamine a well-established econometric literature linking economic freedom to growth, and argue that their positive findings hinge on two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009325575
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Right to water and access to water
Anand, P B - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
This paper examines the scope for a rights-based perspective on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by focusing on right to water. The paper adapts Hohfeldian framework of elements of a right developed by Wenar. According to this, a right should be interpreted in terms of powers, privileges,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259587
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Uganda's microfinance policy regime: An exploratio through a political-economy framework
Schmidt, Oliver - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
In 2005, Uganda’ government fundamentally shifted the direction of its microfinance (MF) policy. Hitherto it had … direction served the objectives of Uganda’s politicians to maintain political power, as it offered them an avenue to create …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260487
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Pro-poor water service strategies in developing countries: promoting justice in Uganda’s urban project
Berg, Sanford V; Mugisha, Silver - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Water service to the urban poor presents challenges to political leaders, regulators and managers. We identify technology mixes of yard taps, public water points (with and without pre-paid meters) to meet alternative constraints, and reflecting populations served and investment requirements....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009251544
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Economic viability of fertiliser use in Uganda's agriculture
Okoboi, Geofrey - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
We examine the viability of inorganic fertiliser use in Uganda, using the 2005/06 Uganda National Household Survey data …-crop profitability is likely to be counter-productive to the drive of increasing agricultural productivity and household income in Uganda …. Hence, the drive to increase fertiliser use in Uganda can succeed only if farmers are widely sensitized not about the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008550048
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The becoming of a market - A reflection illustrated by two case studies from Uganda
Schmidt, Oliver - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
. fish and minibus (“matatu”) services in Uganda, East Africa since the mid-1980ties. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005619391
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Vulnerability and Poverty Dynamics in Uganda, 1992-1999
Kasirye, Ibrahim - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
This paper uses a panel data set of 1309 households in Uganda to measure vulnerability to poverty between 1992/93 and … poverty increases with higher education attainment of the household head. Also households resident in northern Uganda are … about 60 percent more vulnerable compared to their counterparts in central Uganda. The study also finds that causes of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005621932
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THE IMPACT OF THE FOREIGN INVESTMENTS ON THE CAPITAL MARKET IN ROMANIA
Barna, Flavia - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
No country can develop without an active capital market, which has to be capable to meet the mobilization requests of the assets for financing the national economy. On the other hand, it has to be a profitable instrument for placing the available financing resources. The existence of a potential...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836137