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the same period, the headcount index of poverty fell from 43.2 percent in 1993 to 36.4 percent in 1999, and the poverty … gap, which measures the depth of poverty, fell from 16.2 percent in 1993 to 12.4 percent in 1999, hence, growth is poverty … correlation between inequality and poverty, and no significant correlation between poverty and race. …
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This paper examines the individual effects of primary, secondary and higher education on income distribution, using different measures of investment rates in education: enrollment rates, public expenditures and public expenditures per student, in each education stage. The panel data method is...
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This study investigates the relationship between energy consumption, economic growth and financial development in India by using the annual data for the period 1971-2009. An application of Auto Regressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) approach to cointegration results suggest that energy consumption is...
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This paper examines causalities among foreign direct investment (FDI), economic growth (GTH), and financial development proxied by both equity market size (EQM) and bank credit to private sectors (BANK). We use a structural cointegration model with a vector error correction (VEC) mechanism to...
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The main purpose of this paper is to assess the impact of financial market development on Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in Latin American countries. Financial market development and FDI are two important sources of efficient economic resource allocation in the region. We use banking sector and...
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Financial development is definitely a determinant of the extent of foreign direct investment (FDI) inflow into an economy. Yet, the contribution of financial development (FD) can be dependent on the political situation of the recipient nation. Higher political stability aids financial...
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The paper investigates the relationship between financial development and economic growth in seven Sub-Saharan Africa countries. Using the panel Granger causality test, the study finds one-way causality running from economic growth to bank developing indicators and a two-way causality between...
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This study develops a macroeconometric model for the Mauritian economy to explain long-run determinants of the country’s economic performance. The Engle-Granger (1987) two-step cointegration methodology is adopted to capture both short-run and long-run dynamic properties of the macroeconomy....
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remittances as a development mechanism. This study attempts to understand to what degree labor patterns are affected by the … receipt of remittances. Using nationally representative household income and expenditure data for Mexico, I analyze the effect … range of -.006 to -.03. This finding attenuates to some degree the measure of the impact of remittances in the receiving …
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This article examines the macroeconomic factors influencing the flow of remittances to selected English … capita remittances and selected macroeconomic variables. This article also examines the time series properties of the data … models on remittances by removing the possibility of a spurious relationship (Pedroni 1995,1997, 2000). The results strongly …
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