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Should easier access to international credit replace foreign aid?
Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu; Lahiri, Sajal; Younas, Javed - 2011
We examine the interaction between foreign aid and binding borrowing constraint for a recipient country. We also analyze how these two instruments affect economic growth via non-linear relationships. First of all, we develop a two-country, two-period trade-theoretic model to develop testable...
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Are we there yet? Time for checks and balances on new institutionalism
Iyigun, Murat - 2012
economic development. If the sociopolitical, legal and economic transformations in the Anglo-Saxon world in the last three …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290007
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Integrated Macroeconomic Production Function for Open Economies: A New Schumpeterian Solow Model for Globalization
Welfens, Paul J. J. - 2016
investment or international technology spillovers. This study is a major contribution to innovation, trade, FDI and growth … analysis in the context of economic globalization and the demand for labor as well as long run international output … interdependency of big countries; and this includes a view at the asymmetric case of a simple two country world in which one country …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011479242
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Then and now: Reflections on two Australian mining booms
Gregory, Robert G. - 2011
Australia is experiencing its largest mining boom for more than a century and a half. This paper explores, from a national perspective, important economic differences that arise when a mining boom, such as the current one, is generated by export price increases (trading gains) rather than export...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280677
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The role of sectoral growth patterns in labor market development
Arias-Vazquez, Francisco Javier; Lee, Jean Nahrae; … - 2012
This paper investigates the relationship between sectoral growth patterns and employment outcomes. A broad cross-country analysis reveals that in middle-income countries, employment responds more to growth in less productive and more labor-intensive sectors. Employment in middle-income countries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289844
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Human capital and growth: Specification matters
Sunde, Uwe; Vischer, Thomas - 2011
This paper suggests that the weak empirical effect of human capital on growth in existing cross-country studies is partly the result of an inappropriate specification that does not account for the different channels through which human capital affects growth. A systematic replication of earlier...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280676
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The New Economic Case for Migration Restrictions: An Assessment
Clemens, Michael A.; Pritchett, Lant - 2016
For decades, migration economics has stressed the effects of migration restrictions on income distribution in the host country. Recently the literature has taken a new direction by estimating the costs of migration restrictions to global economic efficiency. In contrast, a new strand of research...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011479248
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Migration and Globalization: What's in it for Developing Countries?
Rapoport, Hillel - 2016
This paper reviews a growing literature on migration and globalization, focusing on its relevance for developing and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011525040
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The Return of the Prodigy Son: Do Return Migrants Make Better Leaders?
Mercier, Marion - 2013
This paper investigates the impact of political leaders' migration experience on the quality of their leadership. We build up an original database on the personal background of 932 politicians who were at the head of the executive power in a developing country over the 1960-2004 period. We put...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329104
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The Return of the Prodigy Son: Do Return Migrants Make Better Leaders?
Mercier, Marion - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper investigates the impact of political leaders' migration experience on the quality of their leadership. We build up an original database on the personal background of 932 politicians who were at the head of the executive power in a developing country over the 1960-2004 period. We put...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011188127