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This paper analyses inclusive growth that focuses on the creation of opportunities for all. Inclusive growth allows people to contribute to and benefit from economic growth, while pro-poor growth approaches focusing on welfare of the poor only to reduce inequality. Recently, economics literature...
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New Europe has never had it so good. Its income, quality of life and level of happiness have never been closer to that … of the developed countries in Western Europe. With its per capita income at an all-time high and the quality of life … income than most emerging market countries. New Europe’s true Golden Age shimmers on the horizon. Already a significant …
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A pervasive trend that characterised the past two decades of European economic growth is that the share in the economy of commercial services, and particularly business services, grows monotonically, and this mainly to the expense of the manufacturing sector. The structural shift reflects a...
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In the last 30 years, Greece has experienced a rapid rate of economic growth which has transformed the economy and enabled it to become a member of the EEC. Specifically, Greece transformed itself from an agricultural economy with virtually no industrial base to an economy with a significant...
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This paper analyses the problem of measuring the output of the education sector. It uses a combination of the index number approach with the education return methods. This allows us to take into account not only the number of students but also the labour outcomes corresponding to each type of...
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In this article recession magnitudes in Europe, the USA and Japan during the Great Recession are compared. The …
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The purpose of this paper to study the direct and indirect influence of corruption on economic indicators like the human indicator. Indeed, it would be very important to clarify the impact of control of corruption on human capital while considering the direct and indirect effects of the control...
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This paper surveys the literature that examines the effect of education on economic growth. Specifically, we apply meta-regression analysis to 56 studies with 979 estimates and show that there is substantial publication selection bias towards a positive impact of education on growth. Once we...
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The relationship between education and economic growth has been one of the fundamental themes of economic analysis. Despite the growing interest in the relationship between growth and education, and despite the strong theoretical foundations for a key role of education/human capital in economic...
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This book presents theoretical and empirical investigation of economic growth and the possible impact of human capital on economic growth in Ukraine, the Russian Federation, Poland, and Hungary during the period of 1989-2009. This research defines place and role of human capital in the process...
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