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Factor endowment, structural coherence, and economic growth
Che, Natasha Xingyuan - 2012
This paper studies the linkage between structural coherence and economic growth. Structural coherence is defined as the degree that a country's industrial structure optimally reflects its factor endowment fundamentals. The paper found that at least for the overall capital, the shares of capital...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009618511
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Growth and Structural Reforms
Christiansen, Lone Engbo - 2009
This paper presents a simultaneous assessment of the relationship between economic performance and three groups of economic reforms: domestic finance, trade, and the capital account. Among these, domestic financial reforms, and trade reforms, are robustly associated with economic growth, but...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012677526
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Investment-Led Growth in China
Ahuja, Ashvin - 2012
Over the past decade, China's growth model has become more reliant on investment and its footprint in global imports … has widened substantially. Several economies within China's supply chain are increasingly exposed to its investment …-led growth and face growing risks from a deceleration in investment in China. This note quantifies potential global spillovers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012677549
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Investment and Growth Dynamics
Samaké, Issouf - 2008
We investigate the nexus of public and private investment and assess the impact of both types of investment on growth …. Using annual data for 1965-2005, we employ a coherent set of structural VAR outputs to model investment and growth in Benin …. We find that in addition to institutional and regulatory developments, public investment and private capital formation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012677591
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How Can Burundi Raise Its Growth Rate?The Impact of Civil Conflicts and State Intervention on Burundi's Growth Performance
Basdevant, Olivier - 2009
of investment, civil conflict, economic inefficiencies, state intervention in the economy, and regulatory restrictions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012677702
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Why Isn't South Africa Growing Faster? A Comparative Approach
Eyraud, Luc - 2009
by comparing its GDP components and its saving and investment performance with those of 10 faster-growing countries. The … study finds that sluggish investment has undermined growth since 1996 and that the underinvestment is in part explained by … limited saving. Thus, over the last decade, interactions between investment, saving, and production may have perpetuated slow …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012677704
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Public Debt and Productivity : The Difficult Quest for Growth in Jamaica
Blavy, Rodolphe - 2006
Intro -- Contents -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. THE PARADOX: LOW GROWTH AND HIGH INVESTMENT -- III. THE MISMEASUREMENT …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012691081
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Investment and Growth Dynamics : An Empirical Assessment Applied to Benin
Samake, Issouf - 2008
We investigate the nexus of public and private investment and assess the impact of both types of investment on growth …. Using annual data for 1965-2005, we employ a coherent set of structural VAR outputs to model investment and growth in Benin …. We find that in addition to institutional and regulatory developments, public investment and private capital formation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014409029
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Much Ado About Nothing? Estimating the Impact of a U.S. Slowdown on Thai Growth
Aiyar, Shekhar - 2008
's largest export destination. We use a small structural model and Bayesian estimation to assess the possible impact of a U …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012677605
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Political Institutions and Output Collapses
Imam, Patrick - 2023
Major output collapses are costly and frequent in the developing world. Using cross-country data, we classify five-year periods using a two-dimensional state space based on growth regimes and political institutions. We then model the joint evolution of output growth and political institutions as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015059959