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Cross-racial envy and underinvestment in South Africa
Haile, Daniel (contributor); Sadrieh, Abdolkarim (contributor) - 2006
Trust games are employed to investigate the effect of heterogeneity in income and race on cooperation in South Africa …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003301019
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Austerity
Ntellas, Charēs; Niepelt, Dirk - 2014
more favourable loan package; that it is associated with over-investment even when investment does not create collateral …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010468584
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Is favoritism a threat to Chinese aid effectiveness? : A subnational analysis of Chinese development projects
Dreher, Axel; Fuchs, Andreas; Hodler, Roland; Parks, Bradley - 2019
Chinese aid comes with few strings attached, allowing recipient country leaders to use it for domestic political purposes. The vulnerability of Chinese aid to political capture has prompted speculation that it may be economically ineffective, or even harmful. We test these claims by estimating...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012033099
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The changing patterns of investment in the PRC economy
Holz, Carsten A. - 2017
The investment-intensive growth model of the People's Republic of China (PRC) is often viewed as state-driven and … ultimately unsustainable. But largely unnoticed, a shift has taken place. This paper examines the changes in investment patterns … economy-wide data with various breakdown. Significant shifts in investment patterns across sectors and ownership forms have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011657882
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China's investment rate : implications and prospects
Holz, Carsten A. - 2017
it driven by investment and capital accumulation. By 2014, gross capital formation had reached 46 percent of aggregate … expenditures. This paper documents the role of investment in driving economic growth in China, questions how much longer China can … sustain a relatively high investment rate, and examines the arguments that have been offered for an impending drastic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011659322
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Does pension privatization increase economic growth? : evidence from Latin America and Eastern Europe
Altiparmakov, Nikola; Nedeljkovic, Milan - 2016
Analyses of pension funding effects on economic growth need to differentiate between "carve-out" pension privatization in Latin America and Eastern Europe and typical "add-on" pension funding in Western Europe and North America. We find no evidence that pension privatization in Latin America and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011536201
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Precipitation and economic growth
Berlemann, Michael; Wenzel, Daniela - 2018
As the ongoing process of global warming goes along with changes in both mean precipitation and precipitation extremes, the scientific interest in the effects of rainfall on economic prosperity has recently grown significantly. However, the few existing empirical studies of short-run growth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011906275
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Manpower constraints and corporate policies
D'Acunto, Francesco; Weber, Michael; Yang, Shuyao - 2020
investment in public and private education for low-skilled workers. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012313778
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Rent seeking, capital accumulation, and macroeconomic growth
Heijdra, Ben J.; Heijnen, Pim - 2023
We study the effects of time-using rent-seeking activities on the macroeconomic allocation and the economic growth rate. We formulate a highly stylized three-sector general equilibrium model with overlapping generations of individuals. The production side features one sector producing the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014431164
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Why is China investing in Africa? : evidence from the firm level
Chen, Wenjie; Dollar, David; Tang, Heiwai - 2016
China's increased trade with and investment in Africa have boosted the continent's economic growth but have also … generated considerable controversy. In this paper we investigate China's outward direct investment ODI in Africa using macro and … investment is small, though growing rapidly. China's attraction to resource-rich countries is no different from Western …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011485198