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Jamaica 2030: A Strategy For Developed Country Status

Jones, Peter - In: Economics Bulletin 28 (2006) 2, pp. 0-0

In order for Jamaica to transition from a Developing Country to a Developed Country it will be highly necessary to a Knowledge based society, the inability to seriously overcome this challenge will mean Jamaica will be in transition to a developed country for an infinite number of years.

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Jamaica 2030: A Strategy For Developed Country Status

Jones, Peter - In: Economics Bulletin 28 (2006) 2, pp. 0-0

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Microcredit - A More Credible Social than Economic Program in Bangladesh

Molla, Rafiqul Islam; Alam, Md. Mahmudul - In: Economics Bulletin 31 (2011) 2, pp. 1095-1104

Calculated under the framework of economic-profit counting, the productivity of microcredit in Bangladesh is found very low. In this survey about 48% of the borrowers had to compromise their normal wages for self-employed labor to be able to pay the high interest for the credit. Similarly its...

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Aid unpredictability and absorptive capacity: analyzing disbursement delays in Africa.

Diarra, Gaoussou - In: Economics Bulletin 31 (2011) 1, pp. 1004-1017

This paper examines the extent to which aid disbursement delays could be used as an indicator of the aid unpredictability and absorptive capacity in recipient countries. Since many recipient countries are dependent on aid, disbursement delays might matter for its effectiveness. The emphasis is...

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Regulatory Framework and Private Investment: Empirical Evidence for Developing Countries

Ntouko, Clarisse Nguedam - In: Economics Bulletin 33 (2013) 1, pp. 494-510

This paper analyzes the impact of business regulation on private investment in developing countries with a particular emphasis on sub-Saharan Africa. Using the principal component analysis methodology, we construct the following composite indexes of the regulatory framework: entry regulation,...

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Legal origin and the evolution of environmental quality

Davis, Lewis S.; Lacroix, Emily - In: Economics Bulletin 31 (2011) 4, pp. 2968-2974

We extend the empirical literature on the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) by showing the legal origin matters for the evolution of environmental quality. Using observations of ambient sulfur dioxide levels, we find that the EKC for French and British legal origin countries diverge as incomes...

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Impact of education on the shadow economy: Institutions matter

Buehn, Andreas; Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza - In: Economics Bulletin 33 (2013) 3, pp. 2052-2063

shadow economy, particularly considering the quality of institutions. The results show that higher levels of education fuel … the shadow economy in an environment of weak political institutions. …

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Institutions, Corruption and Sustainable Development

Venard, Bertrand - In: Economics Bulletin 33 (2013) 4, pp. 2545-2562

This paper aims to analyze the relationship between institutional quality, corruption level, and economic development. The methodology makes use of cross-national data developed by the World Bank on perceived levels of corruption, institutional framework quality and economic development to test...

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On the substitution of institutions and finance in investment

Asongu, Simplice A - In: Economics Bulletin 34 (2014) 3, pp. 1557-1574

The Ali (2013, EB) findings on the nexuses among institutions, finance and investment could have an important influence … finance and institutions because they are less realistic to developing countries to which the resulting policy implications … why the Acemoglu & Johnson (2005) justification provided for the measurement of property rights institutions (PRI) is …

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Institutions and development in developing countries: an empirical assessment

Dao, Minh - In: Economics Bulletin 30 (2010) 1, pp. 10-10

This paper examines the effect of institutions on economic performance in developing countries. Based on data from the … that institutions do affect economic development in these countries, unlike the results of previous studies by Mc Arthur … proxies for the role of institutions does not have the anticipated sign due to the severe degree of multicollinearity among …

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