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Domestic resources, governance, global links, and the economic performance of Sub-Saharan Africa

Amavilah, Voxi Heinrich - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

This paper uses a simple production function to show that the economic performance of a group of African countries in 2007 depended on three broad sources: domestic resources, governance, and global links. The results reveal that investment plays the most important part. The effects of education...

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Direct & Indirect Effects of Aid Volatility on Growth: Do Stronger Institutions Play a Role?

Kathavate, Jay - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This paper develops a political economy model to analyze the direct and indirect effects of aid volatility on growth … and the outcome of higher institutional quality on the effect of aid volatility on growth. Using time-series cross section … data for 77 countries from 1984-2007, the effects of aid volatility on growth are empirically tested. It is concluded that …

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Does Foreign Aid Promote Trade? Evidence from Some Selected African Countries

Ojeaga, Paul - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Will aid given to specific sector promote growth? Will bilateral aid be more effective than multilateral aid in export promotion? This paper fills a gap in the literature by studying the implications of aid channeled specifically to trade and export oriented growth. Many African Countries look...

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Can statistics do without artefacts?

Chatelain, Jean-Bernard - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

This companion paper to Chatelain and Ralf (2012), “Spurious regressions with near-multicollinearity” put their results into the contexts of the history of statistics, of the current publication bias in applied sciences and of the substantive versus statistical significance debate. This...

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Inclusive Growth Through Creation of Human and Social Capital

Dinda, Soumyananda - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

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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Моделирование технологических и институциональных эффектов в макроэкономическом прогнозировании...

Gnidchenko, Andrey - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

We conduct a comprehensive study of macroeconomic modeling methods, new theories of economic growth and the impact of technology and institutions on economic growth, in order to formulate the basic characteristics that are critical for efficient technological and institutional effects modeling....

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Crecimiento Económico de Largo Plazo en Antioquia, Colombia : Estimación del PIB, 1800-1913 (Long Term Economic Growth in Antioquia, Colombia: GDP Estimates, 1800-1913)

Mejia, Javier - 2012

Este trabajo realiza el primer análisis cuantitativo detallado del nivel de actividad económica de Antioquia para el siglo XIX y la primera parte del XX. A partir de los datos existentes para la economía colombiana, se reconstruye la que es, además, una de las primeras series de PIB regional...

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A Three-Sector Model of Structural Transformation and Economic Development

Bah, El-hadj M. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

Growth accounting exercises point to aggregate TFP dierences as the dominant source of the large cross-country income dierences. In this paper, I ask which sectors account for the aggregate TFP gap between rich and poor countries. Data limitations for developing countries have led researchers to...

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Ghana's Economic Growth in perspective: A time series approach to Convergence and Growth Determinants

Baafi Antwi, Joseph - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

Economic growth around the world has not been equal for a long time. Some economics grow faster while others grow slower. But economists have predicted that the slower growing economics will eventually converge with the faster growing economy as some point in the future. This is known as the...

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The effects of technology-as-knowledge on the economic performance of developing countries: An econometric analysis using annual publications data for Botswana, Namibia, and South...

Amavilah, Voxi Heinrich - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

Extant literature indicates that technology, and by implication its underlying knowledge base, determines long-run economic performance. Absent from the literature with respect to developing countries are quantitative assessments of the nexus between technology as knowledge and economic...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836365

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