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private investment: contrary to mainstream consensus where-in, English common-law countries are better at championing private …
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intermediary channels of depth, efficiency, activity and size. Findings show that legal origin matters in the finance-investment … nexus; though its ability to explain aggregate investment dynamics only through financial intermediary channels is limited …
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Many of the present difficulties of the world economy have been blamed on the two oil-price explosions of the 1970s. Professor Chichilnisky shows that, at least in the case of the oil-importing developing countries, the negative effects have been overestimated. In fact, in some respects the oil...
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There are competing views of how HIV/AIDS affects saving, and to a lesser extent, investment. One argument is that … translate through to investment. In fact, the absolute value of the impact the disease has on investment is considerably reduced … saving would necessarily have on investment is negated. …
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Within the context of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the gender equality in education is considered one of the most challenging goals for most developing economies. Using Panel Least Square with Regional Dummies (LSDV) for a sample of Developing countries over the period 1990 to 2014,...
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Several studies including Minea,Tapsoba and Villieu(2012) and Lucotte (2012) claim that in emerging countries, the adoption of inflation targeting(IT) monetary policy and its discipline character allow intensifying their efforts to collect tax revenue and/or expenditure rationalization, and...
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the result of both foreign direct investment (FDI) and portfolio investment (PI). For Asia and Africa by cons, this … of investment, exchange rate regime, fiscal policy, the development level are not significant. …
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This research paper has attempted to analyze the nature of the leverage exerted by the inflation targeting (IT) policy on the pass-through effect in emerging countries. In other words, we tried to answer to the question of whether a climate of low inflation in these countries through the...
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In theory, the price of equity is determined by the dividend yields and growth potentials of the firms. There exists established empirical proof of the impact of macroeconomic changes to the equity markets. With the advent of Islamic equities, and the recent surge of interest in them have raised...
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One of the main challenges faced by developing countries is to stimulate investment for achieving higher growth rates … investigate the potentially devastating effects of capital flight on investment in presence of financial liberalization policies … suggest that capital flight has a negative and significant effect on total domestic investment. This finding is still robust …
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