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Climate change may damage road infrastructure to the potential detriment of economic growth, particularly in developing countries. To quantitatively assess climate changeâ..s consequences, we construct a climate-infrastructure model based on stressor-response relationships and link this to a...
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This paper explores the impacts of informatin technology investment on economic groth in a cross-section of 39 countries in the period 1980-95 by applying an explicit model of economic growth, the augmented version of the neoclassical (Solow) growth model.
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Productivity gains are the prime engine of economic growth. This paper uses a rich amount of firms. accounting …
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reveal two significant trends in the service sector following liberalization in 1991: growth in service sector productivity … productivity (TFP) and increase in the level of trade in industrial and service sectors. The results from a counterfactual … of sectoral trade negligibly affects the results. Hence I conclude that services' productivity growth versus the increase …
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Malaysian economic development has been shaped by public policy in response to changing national and external conditions. Public investments peaked in the 1970s and early 1980s, until the policy reversals driven by sovereign debt concerns and new policy ideology fads. Foreign investments...
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In fragile states, social protection programmes are often a kaleidoscope of projects financed and implemented by a variety of donors, government agencies and NGOs. Such an environment does not foster a strong sense of ownership by beneficiaries, which weakens the likelihood of sustainability in...
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