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Growth, History, or Institutions? What Explains State Fragility in Sub-Saharan Africa
Bertocchi, Graziella - 2010
We explore the determinants of state fragility in sub-Saharan Africa. Controlling for a wide range of economic, demographic, geographic and institutional regressors, we find that institutions, and in particular the civil liberties index and the number of revolutions, are the main determinants of...
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Then and Now : Reflections on Two Australian Mining Booms
Gregory, Robert - 2011
trading gain effect and indirect real GDP effect, primarily through increased employment levels - have increased Australian …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120401
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An Innovation Index Based on Knowledge Capital Investment : Definition and Results for the UK Market Sector
Clayton, Tony - 2009
could get more GDP without innovation by simply duplicating existing physical capital and labour (e.g. adding a second … aircraft and crew on an existing route). Thus we propose to measure innovation as the additional GDP over and above the … addition existing physical capital and labour. In our measure this is the contribution to GDP growth of market sector …
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Knowledge Spillovers, ICT and Productivity Growth
Corrado, Carol A. - 2014
This paper looks at the channels through which intangible assets affect productivity. The econometric analysis exploits a new dataset on intangible investment (INTAN-Invest) in conjunction with EUKLEMS productivity estimates for 10 EU member states from 1998 to 2007. We find that (a) the...
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Service Sector Development and its Determinants in Rwanda
Uwitonze, Eric - 2016
The service sector is an avenue for economic transformation as not all countries have a competitive edge in manufacturing. The growing literature on service sector primarily focuses on its development in the US and Europe and on Asian emerging service economies like India. Not as much attention...
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The Impact of Hiv/Aids on Human Capital Investment in Sub-Saharan Africa : New Evidence
Chicoine, Luke - 2020
The risk of AIDS-related mortality increased dramatically throughout the 1990s. This paper updates previous work by Fortson (2011) to examine the impact of mortality risk on human capital investment during the deadliest period of the pandemic. We combine Demographic Health Survey data from 30...
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Revisiting Cross-Country Poverty Convergence in the Developing World with a Special Focus on Sub-Saharan Africa
Ouyang, Yusi - 2018
The literature on poverty convergence is sparse and much of the empirical evidence relies on Ravallion (2012) who found a lack of poverty convergence across some ninety Less Developed Countries (LDCs) during 1977-2007. This paper revisits cross-country poverty convergence using data from the...
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A Demographic Dividend for Sub-Saharan Africa : Source, Magnitude, and Realization
Bloom, David E. - 2014
Managing rapid population growth and spurring economic growth are among the most pressing policy challenges for Sub-Saharan Africa. We discuss the links between them and investigate the potential of family planning programs to address these challenges. Specifically, we estimate the impact of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013061442
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Growth, Colonization, and Institutional Development : In and Out of Africa
Bertocchi, Graziella - 2011
This essay investigates the determinants of the growth performance of Africa. I start by illustrating a broader research agenda which accounts not only for basic economic and demographic factors, but also for the role of history and institutional development. After reporting results from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122110
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Are the East African Community's Countries Ready for a Common Currency?
Kigabo, Thomas; Heshmati, Almas - 2022
This paper investigates the East African Community (EAC) partner states' readiness for a common currency. It uses recent data to assess the impact of policy coordination in the region during the last seven years of East African Monetary Union's protocol implementation. Despite some similarities...
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