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Southern African economic integration : evidence from an augmented gravity model

Warin, Thierry; Wunnava, Phanindra V.; Tengia, Optat; … - 2009

This paper investigates the feasibility of creating a common-currency union consisting of 16 countries in Southern Africa. We estimate an augmented-gravity model that includes public deficit, public debt, public expenditure, inflation, and the foreign reserves position. We also integrate...

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The green path : FDI's influence on Asia's sustainable economic growth

Le Ngoc Anh; Heshmati, Almas - 2025

This study examines the dual impact of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) on sustainable economic growth in Asia, focusing … while FDI positively influences Green GDP growth, it concurrently exacerbates GHG emissions and reduces EPI scores. These … results underscore the paradoxical role of FDI in fostering economic growth while posing environmental challenges. The study …

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Corruption, networking and foreign ownership : recent evidence from CEE countries

Pal, Sarmistha - 2013

returns to foreign investment at very high level of corruption, giving rise to negative or even an insignificant relationship …

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The value of redistribution : natural resources and the formation of human capital under weak institutions

Agüero, Jorge M.; Balcázar, Carlos Felipe; Maldonado … - 2017

We exploit time and spatial variation generated by the commodities boom to measure the effect of natural resources on human capital formation in Peru, a country with low governance indicators. Combining test scores from over two million students and district-level administrative data on mining...

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Key players in economic development

Amarasinghe, Ashani; Hodler, Roland; Raschky, Paul A.; … - 2020

This paper analyzes the role of networks in the spatial diffusion of local economic shocks in Africa. We show that road and ethnic connectivity are particularly important factors for diffusing economic spillovers over longer distances. We then determine the key players, i.e., which districts are...

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Job satisfaction among young workers in Eastern and Southern Africa : a comparative analysis

McKay, Andrew D.; Newell, Andrew; Rienzo, Cinzia - 2018

The creation of job opportunities for the increasingly educated youth population is a major current policy challenge in sub-Saharan Africa, even though very little is known about the extent to which young workers in the region are satisfied with the employment they currently have. This paper...

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The extractive industry's impact on economic growth in SADC countries

Nhabinde, Simeão; Heshmati, Almas - 2020

The Southern African Development Community (SADC) countries are rich in natural resources and in most of them their … indirect impacts that the extractive industries in the SADC countries have on their economic growth. The study also examines … the hypothesis of economic convergence. Its empirical results are based on data from the 11 founding SADC countries …

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Low, high and super congestion of an open-access natural resource: the autarky case

Schiff, Maurice W. - 2020

Production of commodities based on open-access renewable natural resources (NR) has usually been examined under "low" congestion (LC) - where MC AC and both increase with output. I identify two additional congestion categories, "high" (HC) and "super" (SC) congestion - where AC is...

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Low, high and super congestion of a renewable natural resource under autarky and trade

Schiff, Maurice W. - 2021

Numerous developing economies depend vitally on renewable natural-resource (NR)-based commodities. This study develops a general equilibrium model to examine the steady-state impact of changes in a small economy's NR congestion under open access and optimal regulation. This issue has often been...

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Population growth and the tragedy of the commons : can trade prevent natural resource and welfare collapse?

Schiff, Maurice W. - 2024

Many developing countries depend crucially on open-access renewable natural resources (NR). Trade is generally viewed as hurting the long-term health of NR in commodity-exporting countries. I examine whether trade might be beneficial in the case of population growth. Dynamic general equilibrium...

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