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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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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Global Volatility and Forex Returns in East Asia
Kalra, Sanjay - 2008
During 2001-07, increases in mature market volatility were associated with declines in forex returns for East Asian countries, consistent with an overall ""flight to safety"" effect. Estimates from GARCH models suggest that a 5 percentage point increase in mature market equity volatility...
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Growth Slowdowns and the Middle-Income Trap
Aiyar, Shekhar; Duval, Romain A; Puy, Damien; Wu, Yiqun; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013
The “middle-income trap” is the phenomenon of hitherto rapidly growing economies stagnating at middle-income levels and failing to graduate into the ranks of high-income countries. In this study we examine the middle-income trap as a special case of growth slowdowns, which are identified as...
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Does the business environment affect corporate investment in India?
Tokuoka, Kiichi - 2012
Since the global financial crisis, corporate investment has been weak in India. Sluggish corporate investment would not …, this paper analyzes the reasons for the slowdown and discusses how India can boost corporate investment, using both macro … investment but that they do not appear to account fully for recent weak performance, suggesting a key role of the bu …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009572430
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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...
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