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We use panel data for fourteen Indian states to assess the influence of public infrastructure on industrial activity …, namely productivity, employment, real wages and investment, at the state level and over the period 1974-1998. Our results … state real wages and productivity, total highway length is a key variable in determining the level of investment in fixed …
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This paper aims to investigate the relationship between physical infrastructure and economic development of Pakistan. A … composite index of physical infrastructure has been constructed through Principal Component Analysis. This has been done by … taking into account three different dimensions of infrastructure i.e. transportation infrastructure, energy infrastructure …
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of health infrastructure and current health status for a constituent state of India using principal component method and … indicate strong relation between primary health infrastructure and preventive & curative health achievements. Close relation … situation of a region. Gaps in health infrastructure in the region need to be taken care of to tap the full economic potential …
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Using contemporary models this paper explores the time-series properties of financial infrastructure and economic … financial infrastructure variables are complementary or a substitute for economic performance? and in what way economic growth … infrastructure led economic growth”. Finance is found to be a leading sector only in the short-term link in Granger causality tests …
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This paper examines the gender distribution of the benefits of economic growth in several Asian economies from 1970-90. Using Borda rank ordering, we compare the progress made in these countries towards closing the gender gap in well-being. In addition to commonly-used indicators, trends in the...
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The article describes “the theory of devaluation of values” developed by the author. In accordance with this theory, economic growth takes place using two inter-connected phenomena: a) reduction in time necessary for “the set of benefits (goods) currently consumed” to be produced, on the...
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– Inflation) x GDP = K_Index_Infl. Productivity Index: K_Index / Labor Force = K_PROD Inflation indexed Productivity Index: K …
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For effective economic growth, intentional “creation” of unemployment is required to be followed up by its «elimination». From Okun’s law one can infer an interesting corollary: growing unemployment without reducing GDP increases the economy’s potential. This corollary can be proved...
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The article describes “the theory of value depreciation” developed by the author. In accordance with this theory, economic growth takes place using two inter-connected phenomena: (a) reduction in time necessary to produce “the set of goods currently consumed” (first form of value...
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This paper investigates the role of information and communication technology (ICT) as a driver of improved productivity …. The paper investigates how, and to what extent, ICT contributed to a narrowing in the productivity gap. Although … investment in ICT capital has strongly increased, total factor productivity (TFP) growth has made the largest contribution to …
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