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' for four distinctly different African countries (Morocco, Egypt, Senegal and Ghana). In general, great expectations about … potential migrants are only present in Ghana and Egypt. The differences in intentions by age and sex are also quite noteworthy … Ghana and Egypt. The network effects of potential migrants turn out to be less important than one might expect from actual …
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? These two questions are examined empirically in Egypt, Turkey and Morocco for households with family members living abroad …
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Exploiting a unique policy reform in Egypt that reduced the number of years of compulsory schooling, we show how it …
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Growth empirics with institutional measures is performed for 25 transition countries overthe period 1990-95. Estimation results suggest that (particularly state) institutions aresignificant for growth and, especially, foreign direct investment (FDI), the latter in turnbeing important for the...
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Institutions are strikingly absent from most economic theory, certainly from growth theory.In standard theory it is simply assumed that the needed institutional environment is there,within which economic agents can make their optimizing decisions. At the same time, indescriptive growth studies,...
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This paper studies the intangible costs of international trade by extending the basic gravity equation with measures of cultural and institutional distance, and institutional quality. Analyzing a sample of bilateral trade flows between 92 countries in 1999, we find that institutional distance...
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The level of entrepreneurship differs considerably across countries and periods. Both thecauses and consequences of entrepreneurship are a matter of extensive scientific debate aswell as of great policy importance. A high level of entrepreneurial activity is assumed andshown to contribute to...
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This paper identifies the specific external barriers to SME development in Lithuania. An analysis of 332 SME owners reveals that formal barriers (taxes, frequent changes to and ambiguity of tax policies) and environmental barriers (low purchasing power, lack of funds for business investment)...
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