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Assessing the Impact of Ease of Doing Business and Corruption on Economic Growth for Africa Free Trade Zone (AFTZ) Member States
Bonga, Wellington Garikai - 2018
A positive economic growth is one crucial macroeconomic objective of every nation. Many countries have formed regional as well as international trading blocs in an attempt to enhance economic growth and maximise welfare of each member state, the AFTZ member states are not an exception. This...
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Economic Growth Dynamics Across Countries
Lechman, Ewa - 2014
The main purpose of the paper is to analyze GDP PPP per capita growth rates across countries in the period 1980-2008, as well as to identify top and bottom country performers. In addition, the author verifies the statistical relationship between GDP PPP per capita and some arbitrary selected...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014147300
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European Union on the international stage
Sima, Isabela Cristina; Marin, Camelia; Parpandel, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
instability in the Middle East, terrorism, the global warming and environmental change issue, the world’s growing economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008619162
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“Economic freedom” and economic growth: questioning the claim that freer markets make societies more prosperous
Cohen, Joseph N - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
A conventional reading of economic history implies that free market reforms rescued the world’s economies from … show little to no benefit from reforms that did not attract foreign investment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257910
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Impact of Foreign Capital Inflows (FCI) on Economic Growth in Pakistan [1975-2004]
Mohey-ud-din, Ghulam - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
The Two-Gap Model suggests that the Poor countries have to rely on the foreign capital inflows (FCI) to fill the two … Gaps: Import-Export Gap and the Savings-Investment Gap. There are many forms of the foreign capital inflows like FDI … (Foreign Direct Investment), External loans & Credit, technical assistance, Project & non-project aid etc. So, UDC’s (including …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835856
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“Economic freedom” and economic growth: questioning the claim that freer markets make societies more prosperous
Cohen, Joseph N - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
A conventional reading of economic history implies that free market reforms rescued the world’s economies from … show little to no benefit from reforms that did not attract foreign investment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009325575
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Service Sector Led Economic Growth in India and Some Measurement and Database Issues
Saikia, Dilip - 2017
In recent years there has been a rapid and sustained growth of the service sector in the Indian economy. But unfortunately, while the importance of the services is growing statistical data and other relevant information of the services are abysmally low. There are problems relating to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014187326
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Education Inequality, Economic Growth, and Income Inequality : Evidence from Indonesia, 1996-2005
Digdowiseiso, Kumba - 2010
This paper examines the determinants of economic growth, income inequality, and their relationship in the context of education inequality. The econometrics indicate that a higher level of human capital and the relative dispersion of human capital have a disequalizing relationship with income...
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Do Sufficient Institutions Alter the Relationship between Natural Resources and Economic Growth?
Zeynalov, Ayaz - 2014
The purpose of this paper is to test whether institutional governance and its performance is a main driving force to achieve a positive relationship between natural resources and economic growth in the long run. The main objective is to ascertain what kind of institutional governance would be...
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Do University Rankings Matter for Growth?
Tan Kuan Lu, Clifford - 2014
I investigate the relationship between university rankings and economic growth and found that the relationship is statistically significant. The more the number of universities that a country has in international university rankings, the higher its GDP per capita. What is more surprising is...
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