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Determinants of agricultural and non-agricultural livelihood strategies in rural communities: evidence from eastern Nigeria

Bongo AdiAuthor-Email: adibongo@hotmail.com - In: Journal of Developing Areas 40 (2007) 2, pp. 93-109

the determinants of livelihood diversification away from agriculture and the manner in which agro-ecological differences … affect such diversification. The probability of participating in non-agricultural activities was estimated in an endogeneity … of diversification. Against the deagrarianisation thesis, the study found that despite high incidence of diversification …

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Quality Of Civil Administration And Economic Growth: A Threshold Analysis

Islam, Nazrul - In: Journal of Developing Areas 46 (2012) 2, pp. 315-350

The paper distinguishes between 'immediate measures of the quality of civil administration' (IM-QCA), such as corruption, and the 'final measure of the quality of civil administration' (FM-QCA), which is the growth performance of an economy. The paper argues that, instead of being monotonic and...

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Media development and political stability: an analysis of sub-saharan Africa

Roy, Sanjukta - In: Journal of Developing Areas 48 (2014) 2, pp. 255-273

This paper takes a holistic look at the media sector and establishes that press freedom along with reach reduces political instability. Greater reach of media furthers the cause of a free press. It generates an informed populace and increases government responsiveness. The hypothesis is...

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The effect of export composition on economic growth: the case of Korea

Koh, Sae Ran; Mah, Jai S. - In: Journal of Developing Areas 47 (2013) 1, pp. 171-179

This article investigates the causal relationship between export composition and economic growth, among others, in the case of a strongly outward-oriented country, i.e. Korea. The cointegration tests show that cointegrating vectors exist among the concerned variables. Also, the error correction...

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The Impact Of Economic Reforms On Growth: A Case Study Of Bangladesh

Bashar, Omar K M R; Khan, Habibullah - In: Journal of Developing Areas 46 (2012) 2, pp. 125-143

This study makes a brief assessment of the consequences of economic reforms that included a series of liberalization measures on Bangladesh's growth process by analyzing the 1974-2007 data with the help of cointegration, error correction, and Granger causality tests. The results suggest that...

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An analysis of export performance and economic growth of Malaysia using co-integraton and error correction models

Sulaiman, Muna; Saad, Norma Md. - In: Journal of Developing Areas 43 (2009) 1, pp. 217-231

This paper aims to test the relationship between export and economic growth in the Malaysian economy from 1960 to 2005. Combining production function, and international trade and development theories, a five variable model is specified and estimated by using cointegration tests and error...

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Heterogeneous panel causality between exports and growth in Comesa countries

Ndoricimpa, Arcade - In: Journal of Developing Areas 48 (2014) 4, pp. 349-361

mainly primary commodities. The study recommends export diversification for COMESA countries if they are to take advantage of …

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Foreign direct investment, financial development, and economic growth: a cointegration model

Suliman, Adil H.; Elian, Mohammad I. - In: Journal of Developing Areas 48 (2014) 3, pp. 219-243

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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apital flows and the openness-growth nexus: Toda-Yamamoto causality modeling

Elian, Mohammad I.; Suliman, Adil H. - In: Journal of Developing Areas 49 (2015) 1, pp. 85-105

This article tests for the causal direct and interactive association between capital inflow, aid and domestic savings, and the trade-led growth nexus within the context of a market-oriented economy. We applied the Toda-Yamamoto (1995) causality test which eludes the shortfalls associated with...

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Export-led growth hypothesis: a meta-analysis

Seetanah, B.; Jugessur, J. - In: Journal of Developing Areas 48 (2014) 1, pp. 361-385

There is a generally held belief that an expansion of the exports sector in a country would usually lead to an improved economic growth. However, a survey of the literature indicates that a great variety of techniques, data sets and country groups have been employed in empirical assessments of...

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