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China and Brazil Productive Structure and Economic Growth Compared: 1980’s to 2000’s
Guilhoto, Joaquim José Martins; Polenske, Karen Rosel; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
China and Brazil are two countries with continental dimensions, with differences in availability of natural resources … consistently a strategy of Export Led Growth (ELG), while Brazil, until the mid 1990s had a strategy based on Import Substitution … Industrialization (ISI) with a relatively closed economy to the external market; however, recently Brazil has been switching to a more …
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Impact of Economic Crisis on Innovation Behaviour of Industrial Firms In Russia
Kuznetsov, Boris - 2013
The paper focuses on empirical analysis of major factors that determine innovation activities of Russian manufacturing firms during the crisis. We presume that the crisis has ambiguous effects on firms' behaviour, on one hand limiting their financial capabilities to invest into new products...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013082604
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Does financial instability weaken the finance-growth nexus? A case for Pakistan
Shahbaz, Muhammad; Malik, Muhammad Nasir - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The paper investigates whether financial instability weakens finance-growth nexus in case of Pakistan. In doing so ARDL bounds testing approach is used for cointegration among variables over the period of 1971-2005. The results show that financial instability does weaken finance-growth nexus....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008836755
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Does financial instability weaken the finance-growth nexus? A case for Pakistan
Shahbaz, Muhammad; Malik, Muhammad Nasir - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The paper investigates whether financial instability weakens finance-growth nexus in case of Pakistan. In doing so ARDL bounds testing approach is used for cointegration among variables over the period of 1971-2005. The results show that financial instability does weaken finance-growth nexus....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008836763
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Pension savings and economic growth
De Koning, Kees - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Savers, including pension savers, convert savings into assets: homes,government bonds and shares.The conversion of savings is for the very long term. Once monies are turned into assets, the reverse process of turning assets into cash cannot be achieved by all savers together. Unavoidably some...
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The world's dream: economic growth : the balance sheet approach
De Koning, Kees - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Economists may need to change their tools of analysis from analysing income and expenditure contributors (GDP) to asset value contributors -the net worth levels of individual households-. Assessment of the latter requires a balance sheet analysis. Why; because the level of individual...
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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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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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Revisiting the Relationships Between Non-Renewable Energy Consumption, CO2 Emissions and Economic Growth in Iran
Nasre Esfahani, Mohammad - 2016
Exploring the short-run and long-run relationships between consumption of various sources of non-renewable energy, economic growth and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions would be considered as a golden key to provide rational energy policies of Iran in the post sanctions era. The aim of this paper...
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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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