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Service sector development and its determinants in Rwanda

Uwitonze, Eric; Heshmati, Almas - 2016

growth of African countries primarily due to the high prevalence of agriculture in these countries. But with avenues of … countries in the East African Community (EAC). Recently, the growth rate of the service sector has been impressive in the … sales growth, innovation and turnovers of service firms. The results show the factors that have contributed to the …

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The continued search for the solow residual : the role of national entrepreneurial ecosystem

Acs, Zoltán J.; Estrin, Saul; Mickiewicz, Tomasz; … - 2014

This paper introduces a new concept in addition to the traditional measures of stocks of capital, labor, human capital and knowledge, to understand the Solow Residual: National Entrepreneurial Ecosystem (NEE). The NEE construct is based on a methodology that combines institutions and human...

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Bounding the price equivalent of migration barriers

Clemens, Michael A.; Montenegro, Claudio; Pritchett, Lant - 2016

Large international differences in the price of labor can be sustained by differences between workers, or by natural and policy barriers to worker mobility. We use migrant selection theory and evidence to place lower bounds on the ad valorem equivalent of labor mobility barriers to the United...

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Families in macroeconomics

Doepke, Matthias; Tertilt, Michele - 2016

aggregate labor supply and savings. Next, we turn to economic growth, and describe how accounting for families is central for …

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Did the Arab Spring reduce MENA countries' growth?

Araissi, Mahmoud; Fakih, Ali; Haimoun, Nathir - 2019

estimation, the paper estimates a growth model using the difference in the log of GDPC between periods t and t+1. Buttressed by … sufficient empirical evidence, the paper's findings corroborate that the Arab Spring had been negatively associated with growth …

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Secular satiation

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2017

Satiation of need is generally ignored by growth theory. I study a model where consumers may be satiated in any given … endogenized, the satiated equilibrium generically survives. For some parameter values, its growth rate is positive while labor … supply declines over time to zero. Its growth rate is then lower than that of the non satiated equilibrium. Hence, the …

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The intersection of the fields of entrepreneurship and development economics : a review towards a new view

Hessels, Jolanda; Naudé, Wim - 2017

Policy makers find it difficult to promote economic development through entrepreneurship and SMEs. In this paper we argue that this is because the positive impact of entrepreneurship is overestimated and its negative impact underestimated. It is moreover also because there is no unified...

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Terrorism and employment : evidence from successful and failed terror attacks

Brodeur, Abel - 2015

This paper examines the economic consequences of terror attacks and the channels through which terrorism affects local economies. I rely on an exhaustive list of terror attacks over the period 1970-2013 in the U.S. and exploit the inherent randomness in the success or failure of terror attacks...

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Turbulence, firm decentralization and growth in bad times

Aghion, Philippe; Bloom, Nicholas; Lucking, Brian; … - 2017

international differences in post-crisis GDP growth. …

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Religion and innovation

Bénabou, Roland; Ticchi, Davide; Vindigni, Andrea - 2015

In earlier work (Bénabou, Ticchi and Vindigni 2013) we uncovered a robust negative association between religiosity and patents per capita, holding across countries as well as US states, with and without controls. In this paper we turn to the individual level, examining the relationship between...

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