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Electricity consumption and temperature : evidence from satellite data

Yao, Jiaxiong - 2021

Past studies on the relationship between electricity consumption and temperature have primarily focused on individual …, overcoming the data constraint by using grid-level night light and temperature data. Mostly generated by electricity and recorded … by satellites, night light has a strong linear relationship with electricity consumption and is correlated with both its …

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Energy, efficiency gains and economic development : when will global energy demand saturate?

Bogmans, Christian; Kiyasseh, Lama; Matsumoto, Akito; … - 2020

Not anytime soon. Using a novel dataset covering 127 countries and spanning two centuries, we find evidence for an energy Kuznets curve, with an initial decline of energy demand at low levels of per capita income followed by stages of acceleration and then saturation at high-income levels....

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IMF-supported programs and income convergence in low-income countries

Pradhan, Tejesh; Al-Sadiq, Ali J. - 2018

Continuing the empirical debate on the effects of IMF-supported programs on participating countries' macroeconomic performance, we focus on the issue of whether these programs accelerate conditional AY-convergence among low-income countries (LICs). We use an unbalanced panel dataset for 85 LICs...

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The Role of Domestic Debt Markets in Economic Growth : An Empirical Investigation for Low-Income Countries and Emerging Markets

Abbas, S. M. Ali - 2007

We develop a new public domestic debt (DD) database covering 93 low-income countries and emerging markets over the 1975-2004 period to estimate the growth impact of DD. Moderate levels of non-inflationary DD, as a share of GDP and bank deposits, are found to exert a positive overall impact on...

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Institutions Rule : The Primacy of Institutions Over Integration and Geography in Economic Development

Subramanian, Arvind - 2002

We estimate the respective contributions of institutions, geography, and trade in determining cross-country income levels using recently developed instruments for institutions and trade. Our results indicate that the quality of institutions ""trumps"" everything else. Controlling for...

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Sources of Growth in the Democratic Republic of the Congo : A Cointegration Approach

Cinyabuguma, Matthias - 2004

relative importance of total factor productivity growth and factor accumulation, using a cointegration method and a growth …

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Determinants of Growth in an Error : Correction Model for El Salvador

Méndez Morales, Armando - 1998

An error-correction model identifies determinants of growth consistent with results from panel regressions based on a standard Cobb-Douglas production function for El Salvador for 1970-1995, with structural factors affecting the technology variable and macroeconomics and expectations explaining...

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Vietnam's development success story and the unfinished SDG agenda

Baum, Anja - 2020

's success story, highlighting crucial policies in education and electricity sectors. It undertakes a forward-looking costing … exercise that focusses on five sectors - education, health, roads, water, and electricity infrastructure. Achieving the …

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Addressing the Natural Resource Curse : An Illustration From Nigeria

Subramanian, Arvind - 2003

primarily responsible for Nigeria''s poor long-run economic performance. We propose a solution for addressing this resource …

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Do Trading Partners Still Matter for Nigeria's Growth? : A Contribution to the Debateon Decoupling and Spillovers

Obiora, Kingsley I. - 2009

these questions for Nigeria in the context of the global crisis. The results seem to debunk the ""decoupling theory"" and … suggest there are still significant spillovers from Nigeria''s main trading partners, including the US, with trade and … in Nigeria …

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