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Economic Growth, Financial and Trade Globalization in the Philippines: A Vector Autoregressive Analysis
Deluna, Roperto Jr; Chelly, Antiquisa - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
This study was conducted to examine the relationship among Economic Growth, Financial and trade Globalization in the Philippines from 1980 to 2011. The study used the Vector Autoregressive VAR (1) model and Granger Causality test. It was found out that the current value of GDP is positively...
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Social Transfers and Inequality During the Polish Transition
Keane, Michael; Prasad, Eswar - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2001
income inequality during the transition process. The most obvious success story in the process of transition to date has been … only modest increases in inequality. Hence, a detailed analysis of the Polish experience, with a view toward asking what …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011113127
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Political instability and economic growth: Evidence from two decades of transition in CEE
Gurgul, Henryk; Lach, Łukasz - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This paper examines the nexus between political instability and economic growth in 10 CEE countries in transition in the period 1990-2009. Our results support the contention that political instability defined as a propensity for government change had a negative impact on growth. On the other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260644
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Freedom as the key to prosperity: Lessons from the world's growth miracles and economic disasters
Hlavac, Marek - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
What do China, Estonia, Germany, India, Chile, South Korea and Slovakia all have in common? They have all enacted free-market reforms, and have seen their inhabitants’ living standards soar as a result. This essay describes how free-market policies have improved economic performance in these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008674252
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A reevaluation of the impact of financial development on economic growth and its sources by regions
Dabos, Marcelo; Williams, Tomas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
development) on economic growth, capital growth and productivity growth for different regions. Estimations are conducted with a … financial development and economic growth. We consider four geographical regions, Latin Amerca, Europe and North America, Asia … , suggest a significant effect of financial development in economic growth for the entire panel (for the measue of Liquid …
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Weather and Income: Lessons from the main European regions
García-León, David - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
Some recent papers by Dell et al. (2009) and Dell et al. (2012) (DJO) relating weather and economic outcomes, have delivered meaningful messages with clear implications to the effects of a changing climate. In a nutshell, the authors claim that a 1°C increase in global average temperatures...
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Aid and Growth Regressions
Hansen, Henrik; Tarp, Finn - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2000
This paper examines the relationship between foreign aid and growth in real GDP per capita as it emerges from simple augmentations of popular cross-country growth specifications. It is shown that aid in all likelihood increases the growth rate, and this result is not conditional on ‘good’...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011183142
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Structural Change, Economic Growth and Poverty in OIC countries: the case of Indonesia, Malaysia, Nigeria and Turkey.
Naiya, Ismaeel Ibrahim - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
achieving sustained economic growth and development because they were able to effectively transform their productive activities …, human development and good economic management as well as demographic change are for sustained growth, structural …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109259
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Tiger, tiger, burning bright? industrial policy lessons from Ireland and East Asia for small African economies
Bailey, David; Lenihan, Helena; Singh, Ajit - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
The African economies, particularly those in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) stand today at an important crossroads. During the 1980s, for the average African country, GDP per capita fell at a rate of 0.5 percent per annum; in the 1990s it rose slightly at a rate of 0.3 percent per annum. However, in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011110055
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Energy-growth nexus and energy demand in Ghana: A review of empirical studies
Kwakwa, Paul Adjei - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
The paper reviews and assesses empirical studies on the causal relationship between energy and growth, and energy demand in Ghana over the years. It is found through the review that studies have not reached a consensus on the direction of causality between energy and growth, an outcome which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011110497