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This study investigates the relationship between openness and growth for a sample of 34 African countries over the … significant impact of openness on output growth and causality that runs only from openness to growth. …
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This paper presents empirical evidence on how telecommunications infrastructure is related to economic growth in a … increasing returns, demonstrating that an increase in telecommunications investment produces further growth. Therefore …
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Growth is good for the poor” is a ubiquitous statement and one generally backed by theory, research and history. In … the long-run, growth reduces poverty. Yet, growth in output - per se - is neither a necessary nor a sufficient condition … the relation between growth and poverty in Kazakhstan, a country that experienced rapid growth and poverty reduction in …
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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 long-run economic growth in Bangladesh is largely explained by investments … causality runs in both ways between capital account liberalization and economic growth, it runs only in one direction from …
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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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corruption, and the 'final measure of the quality of civil administration' (FM-QCA), which is the growth performance of an … economic growth is characterized by vicious and virtuous circles, which are indicative of multiple equilibria. The paper uses … promoting economic growth, provided the complex, non-linear nature of the compensation-performance relationship, as revealed in …
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This study estimates liquidity premiums using the recently developed Liu (2006) measure within a multifactor capital asset pricing model (CAPM) including size premiums and a time varying parameter model for the West African emerging market of Nigeria. The evidence suggests that liquidity factors...
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This paper uses panel data techniques to investigate the locational determinants of US outward foreign direct investment (FDI) into 23 countries of Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) for 1996–2010. The findings revealed that US outward FDI into SSA is influenced by the availability of crude oil and...
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Apartheid in South Africa ensured whites received more and better-quality schooling relative to Africans, coloreds, and Asians. It is hence conceivable, consistent with human-capital theory whites would receive relatively higher prices to their measured human-capital skills and would have higher...
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Adopting a long term perspective covering four decades, we evaluate the trade performance of less developed African countries. Besides some general trade indicators, we apply a constant market share analysis in order to decompose export performance into several components with specific economic...
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