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This paper examines the impact of transport infrastructure investment and transport sector productivity on South African economic growth for the period 1975-2011. We use a Vector Error Correction Model and a Bayesian Vector Autoregressive model as empirical tools. The models provide an insight...
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This paper responds to the development policy debate involving the World Bank and the IMF on the use of fiscal policy not only for economic stabilization but also to promote economic growth and increase per capita income. A key issue in this debate relates to the effect of the composition of...
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international migration. Fertility is endogenized so that immigrants and natives can have different fertility rates. Fertility is an … replacement ratio) is high enough, the growth rate of GDP per worker for an economy with international migration will be higher … than for a closed economy. Regarding migration policies, our numerical results indicate that economic growth rate of GDP …
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We analyze trends in regional economic growth, employment and internal migration during one of the best periods of … economic boom in Peru´s modern history. Migration among departamentos from 2002 to 2007, captured in the last population census … employment. The relative size of internal migration has declined compared to the period 1988-1993 due to the virtual elimination …
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The rapid and massive increase in rural-to-urban worker flows to the coast of China has drawn recent attention to the …
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As massive rural residents leave their home countryside for better employment, migration has profound effects on income … of education. As permanent migration takes more mass from the upper half of rural income density, both rural income level …
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Abstract: Economic studies on migration of skilled labor are mainly related to those trained in the country of origin … schools such as those of medical sciences and architecture could be also driving further migration. The internationalization … expected low local wages. This paper expands early models of skilled labor migration to account for students. Empirical …
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This paper estimates trends in absolute poverty in urban China from 1988 to 2002 using the Chinese Household Income …
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culture and religion merely reflect the latter? We explore this issue by studying the case of Protestantism in China during …-term economic growth through other channels, such as through transformed social values. If so, then a significant amount of China …
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China and Brazil are two countries with continental dimensions, with differences in availability of natural resources …, population sizes, and which have adopted different strategies of economic growth in the past. China has been following … power parity rates (GNI-PPP) of China and Brazil were at approximately the same level, but by the mid 2000s the GNI-PPP of …
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