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Tajikistan Economic Report, 2012 : Sustaining Post-Crisis Recovery, Investment and Growth
World Bank - 2012
private investment rates. Remittances are likely to grow more slowly than the earlier trend over the last 5-6 years, but could … nonetheless be a major contributor to future growth if more go into private investment than in the past …
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New product technology, accumulation, and growth
Khan, Faruk A. - 2006
"This paper asks whether new technological capacity for producing and exporting additional products provides incentives for greater capital accumulation, without being fully reflected in a higher rate of total factor productivity (TFP) growth. Using a highly disaggregated data set of each...
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Capital accumulation and resource depletion : a Hartwick Rule counterfactual
Hamilton, Kirk - 2005
currently. The authors also derive a more general rule for sustainability--maintain positive constant genuine investment …
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Regulatory instruments and their effects on investment behavior
Burns, Phil - 2004
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Optimal capital accumulation and the allocation of investment between traded and non-traded sectors in oil-producing countries
Wijnbergen, Sweder van - 1982 - Rev
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Optimal investment allocation and exchange rate management in oil exporting countries : a normative analysis of the Dutch disease
Wijnbergen, Sweder van - 1981
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Crashes, Bailouts, Regulations
World Bank - 2012
various organizations have shown that: there is a direct relationship between good corporate governance and investment returns …
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Are women more credit constrained? : experimental evidence on gender and microenterprise returns
De Mel, Suresh J. - 2008
"This paper analyzes data from a randomized experiment on mean returns to capital in Sri Lankan micro-enterprises. The findings show greater returns among men than among women; indeed, returns were not different from zero for women. The authors explore different explanations for the lower...
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Taking the bad with the good : volatility of foreign portfolio investment and financial constraints of small firms
Knill, April M. - 2005
"The author examines the impact of the volatility of foreign portfolio investment on the financial constraints of small … portfolio investment instability on capital issuance and firm growth across countries and firm characteristics, in particular … size. After controlling for the endogeneity of foreign portfolio investment instability, as well as for firm-, industry …
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Credit constraints as a barrier to technology adoption by the poor : lessons from South Indian small-scale fishery
Gine, Xavier - 2005
"It is generally recognized that the adoption of a new technology plays a fundamental role in the development process. However, the benefits from the introduction of the technology may be unevenly distributed among the population, especially if the markets do not function properly. While the...
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