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Purpose – The purpose of this article is to analyse the effects of a declining birth rate and an increasing old age-population ratio on Ireland’s economic output. Design-Methodology/Approach – This paper utilises data on the birth rate, old-age population ratio, economic output and labour...
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, women and children bear most of the health costs. This study employs panel data from 132 countries, from 1971 to 2004, in … types, and they cause adverse health impacts due to indoor air pollution. Within the households that use biomass fuels … economic growth. Second, to investigate the impact of biomass consumption on household health, measured by life expectancy and …
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Economists have a long argue that political process such as democracy and corruption are important for economic growth. Our objective in this paper is to demonstrate that one of democracy's indirect posititive effects is its ability to mitigate the negative effect of corruption on economic...
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This paper will investigate the impact of institution on economic growth rates in MENA nations, Using panel data model over the period 1995-2012. Within the framework of the neoclassical growth model, this study integrates a broad set of institutional variables such. Security of property rights,...
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Last decade of 20th century faced a strong quest for the determinants of the rate of long run economic growth. Post World War II, human capital has emerged as an important and inevitable factor apart from the other general factors that affect the rate of growth. According to economists and...
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This paper assesses the heterogeneous effects of immigration on economic growth depending on both the origin and the destination countries. Following the development of a simple growth model augmented by the embodied human capital of immigrants, we estimate the growth equation using a...
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Education in every sense is one of the fundamental factors of development. No country can achieve sustainable economic development without substantial investment in human capital. Education enriches people’s understanding of themselves and world. It improves the quality of their lives and...
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This paper has been designed to investigate whether health accelerate economic growth in Pakistan. The study is using … Accounting Method shows that Total Factor Productivity, Capital and health contributed 46.61%, 43.15% and 2.61% to growth rate of … GDP per capita during 1971-2008. The Ordinary Least Squares results showed health, labour and Research and Development as …
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of health infrastructure and current health status for a constituent state of India using principal component method and … examines the interlinkage between them as well as that between health status and economic development. Relative position of the … districts within the state is explored to identify the determinants of health status using simple econometric exercise. Results …
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the Real GDP per capita in Pakistan. Health, labour force , and Physical capital are among the other determinants of Real …
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