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This paper examines the effects of Islamic economic and social systems within a democratic environment on the causal relationships among uncertainty, informal economy, corruption, and economic growth. For this purpose, we considered a set of Middle East/North Africa MENA countries considered to...
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The study reveals that there is a relationship between foreign direct investments, trade, and growth rate of per capita GDP for Bangladesh with the help of annual time series data for 1973 to 2014. The Vector Error Correction Model (VECM) analysis shows that there is a long-term relationship...
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A vast number of the energy-growth nexus researchers, as well as other "X-variable-growth nexus" studies, such as for example the tourism-growth nexus, the environment-growth nexus or the food-growth nexus have used the autoregressive distributed lag model (ARDL) bounds test approach for...
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This study examines the moderating effects of the real exchange rate and its volatility on the finance-growth nexus in the West African region. It also determines the marginal effects of financial development on economic growth at various levels of the real exchange rates and its volatility. The...
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since 1960. The recent uprisings that arose independently and spread across the Arab world form the main context of our … rest of the Arab World. We find that high and upper-middle income countries are immune to democracy shocks in Egypt …
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This paper analyses China's energy consumption and economic growth spillover effects on four world regions: (i) America … aggregated time series by world region, from 1970 to 2016, and an autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) approach were used. The … the conservation hypothesis. Additionally, China's spillover effects on the world energy-growth nexus are essentially a …
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This paper looks at how trade liberalization and institutional quality influence real income. Previous evidence has provided mixed results, and we find that indicators representing trade liberalization have been very weak. By using strongly balanced panel data of 45 Sub-Saharan African countries...
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The problem of the relevance of human and natural capital, as well as the potential adverse effect of natural capital on economic growth, has gained increased attention in development economics. The aim of this paper is to assess, theoretically and empirically, the relevance of several forms of...
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Standardized World Income Inequality (SWIID) version 5.0 for a sample of countries up to 115 over 1970–2014 period, and via dynamic …
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