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Testing an EU-Candidate's Place on the Maps of Global Economic, Political and Social Values : The Case of Turkey

Tausch, Arno - 2014

measurement scales of global economic, political and social values and to assess Turkey's place on them. Our study, which is based … value development index ranks Morocco twelfth – just behind the USA. Turkey is ranked 25, ahead of several EU member … effective democracy, and there are very large regional differences, confirming the dictum by Huntington (1996) about Turkey as a …

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International Trade and its Effects on Economic Growth in China

Sun, Peng - 2010

International trade, as a major factor of openness, has made an increasingly significant contribution to economic growth. Chinese international trade has experienced rapid expansion together with its dramatic economic growth which has made the country to target the world as its market. This...

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The Economic and Demographic Transition, Mortality, and Comparative Development

Cervellati, Matteo - 2013

We propose a unified growth theory to investigate the mechanics generating the economic and demographic transition, and the role of mortality differences for comparative development. The framework can replicate the quantitative patterns in historical time series data and in contemporaneous...

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An Empirical Study of the Relationships Between CO2 Emissions, Economic Growth and Openness

Choi, Eunho - 2014

This paper investigates the existence of the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) for carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and its causal relationships with economic growth and openness by using time series data (1971-2006) from China (an emerging market), Korea (a newly industrialized country), and...

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Life Expectancy and Economic Growth : The Role of the Demographic Transition

Cervellati, Matteo - 2009

In this paper we investigate the causal effect of life expectancy on economic growth by explicitly accounting for the role of the demographic transition. In addition to focusing on issues of empirical identification, this paper emphasizes the role of the econometric specification. We present a...

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Spurring Economic Growth through Human Development : Research Results and Guidance for Policymakers

Bloom, David E. - 2020

Education, general health, and reproductive health are key indicators of human development. Investments in these domains can also promote economic growth. This paper argues for the importance of human development related investments based on i) a theoretical economic growth model with poverty...

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Health and Economic Growth

Bloom, David E. - 2018

The positive cross-country correlation between health and economic growth is well-established, but the underlying mechanisms are complex and difficult to discern. Three issues are of central concern. First, assessing and disentangling causality between health and economic growth is empirically...

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Health and Economic Growth : Reconciling the Micro and Macro Evidence

Bloom, David E. - 2018

Micro-based and macro-based approaches have been used to assess the effects of health on economic growth. Micro-based approaches aggregate the return on individual health from Mincerian wage regressions to derive the macroeconomic effects of population health. Macro-based approaches estimate a...

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Trade and Economic Growth : Theories and Evidence from the Southern African Development Community

Farahane, Matias - 2020

This paper empirically tests the hypothesis that trade can act as an engine of growth using panel data for the Southern African Development Community (SADC), a regional integration agreement (RIA) organization, the central objective of whose formation was the need to accelerate, foster, and...

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The Extractive Industry's Impact on Economic Growth in SADC Countries

Nhabinde, S. - 2020

The Southern African Development Community (SADC) countries are rich in natural resources and in most of them their extractive industries extract and export natural resources with little industrial processing. This study analyzes the direct and indirect impacts that the extractive industries in...

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