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Explaining Inequality between Countries : The Declining Role of Political Institutions
Hussey, Andrew - 2017
countries (representing 85 percent of the world population) from 1960-2012. Since 1988, inequality has marginally decreased …
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Is the Relationship between Financial Development and Economic Growth Monotonic? Evidence from a Sample of Middle Income Countries
Samargandi, Nahla - 2014
We revisit the relationship between financial development and economic growth in a panel of 52 middle income countries over the 1980-2008 period, using pooled mean group estimator in a dynamic heterogeneous panel setting. We show that financial development does not have a linear positive...
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Islamic Banking, Credit and Economic Growth : Some Empirical Evidence
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria - 2016
This paper examines the effects of Islamic banking on the causal linkages between credit and GDP by comparing two sets of seven emerging countries, the first without Islamic banks, and the second with a dual banking system including both Islamic and conventional banks. Unlike previous studies,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012998263
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On the Conditional Effects of IMF Program Participation on Output Growth
Binder, Michael - 2013
The empirical evidence currently available in the literature regarding the effects of a country's IMF program participation on its output growth is rather mixed. To shed new evidence on this issue, in this paper we specify a state- dependent panel data model accounting in particular for program...
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Economic Freedom and Religion : An Empirical Investigation
Hillman, Arye L. - 2016
There has been much study of the consequences of economic freedom but, outside of the role of political institutions, there has been little study of the determinants of economic freedom. We investigate whether religion affects economic freedom. Our cross-sectional dataset includes 137 countries...
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A Convex Hull Approach to Counterfactual Analysis of Trade Openness and Growth
Funke, Michael - 2009
In this paper, we apply a convex hull approach to counterfactual analysis of trade openness and growth. The experiments we choose evaluate the importance of trade openness for growth across African countries. Specifically, we ask the question “what would happen if African countries were more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013158311
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Growth and Enduring Epidemic Diseases
Bell, Clive - 2006
This paper studies the formation of human capital and its transmission across generations when premature adult mortality is a salient feature of the demographic landscape, either permanently or in the form of a long-period wave that follows the outbreak of an epidemic. We establish several...
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Infrastructure and Growth : Empirical Evidence
Égert, Balázs - 2009
Investment in network infrastructure can boost long-term economic growth in OECD countries. Moreover, infrastructure investment can have a positive effect on growth that goes beyond the effect of the capital stock because of economies of scale, the existence of network externalities and...
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Trends and Patterns of Growth, Development, Achievements of China and India : A Comparative Analysis
Bhattacharyay, Biswanath - 2016
unprecedented growth and economic development — PRC and India became the second and fourth largest economies of the world …. This has resulted in a remarkable poverty reduction in the last two to three decades in the two economies. PRC and India … provide lessons to the developing world, particularly emerging economies, that are also struggling to improve their economic …
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Geographical Origins and Economic Consequences of Language Structures
Galor, Oded - 2016
This research explores the economic causes and consequences of language structures. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that variations in pre-industrial geographical characteristics that were conducive to higher return to agricultural investment, larger gender gap in...
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