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Okun's and Barro's Misery Index as an Alternative Poverty Assessment Tool. Recent Estimations for European Countries
Lechman, Ewa - 2014
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Social Development – A Multidimensional Approach To Social Development Analysis. Country Level Evidence for Year 2011
Lechman, Ewa - 2014
The study investigates disparities in social development in 144 countries worldwide. In the paper we aim to investigate cross-country differences in social development level in year 2011, as well as to estimate inequalities on the field. Secondly, we assess relative social development level...
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A Search for a Measure of the Quality of Life on Prince Edward Island: An Inter-Provincial ‘Cost of Living’ Inquiry
Baldacchino, Godfrey; Funk, Matt - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Canada has to do with the differential ‘purchasing power’ of their residents? Although the mean level of earnings/income per … ‘household financial health’, and use this to compare the state of affairs in the various provinces of Canada. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005260297
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Gender, quality of life, and growth in Asia 1070 to 1990
Seguino, Stephanie - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2002
This paper examines the gender distribution of the benefits of economic growth in several Asian economies from 1970-90. Using Borda rank ordering, we compare the progress made in these countries towards closing the gender gap in well-being. In addition to commonly-used indicators, trends in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836758
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Long-Run Relationship between Economic Growth and Stock Returns: An Empirical Investigation on Canada and the United States
Feridun, Mete - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
This article examines the long run relationship between economic growth and stock prices for Canada and the United … growth and stock prices share long run equilibrium relationship for both Canada and the U.S. The results from the VECM … indicate that for the U.S., causality runs from economic growth to stock prices but not vice versa. However for Canada, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005619870
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013056564
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013061096
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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...
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