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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
corruption on economic growth of AFTZ member states. The study employed a panel data analysis for the period 2010-2016, using … Stata Statistical Software. The study findings for the bloc, indicated that corruption, trading across borders, getting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012910879
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Education Inequality, Economic Growth, and Income Inequality : Evidence from Indonesia, 1996-2005
Digdowiseiso, Kumba - 2010
This paper examines the determinants of economic growth, income inequality, and their relationship in the context of education inequality. The econometrics indicate that a higher level of human capital and the relative dispersion of human capital have a disequalizing relationship with income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013143699
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The Relationships among Mortality Rates, Income and Educational Inequality in Terms of Economic Growth: A Comparison between Turkey and the Euro Area
Çoban, Serap - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This study focuses on the relationships among mortality rates, income and educational inequality in terms of economic growth to investigate similarities and differences between the Euro Area and Turkey. For this purpose, income gini as an indicator of income inequality and education gini as an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836636
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The shadow economy Kuznets’s curve panel data analysis
Nikopour, Hesam; Shah Habibullah, Muzafar; Schneider, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
The review of recent literature shows the relationship between shadow economy and economic growth is ambiguous. This paper attempts to answer whether the relationship between shadow economy and economic growth depends on the level of development or not? In this way, the Shadow Economy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005837273
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Fertility rebound and economic growth. New evidence for 18 countries over the period 1970-2011.
Lechman, Ewa; Dominiak, Piotr; Okonowicz, Anna - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Long-run impact of economic growth on fertility trends is ambiguous and sensitive for in-time variations. Over last decades, economic growth has led in many countries to significant falls in total fertility rates. However, recently, in high-income economies a kind of “fertility rebound” is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011110165
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Revisiting Energy Consumption and GDP: Evidence from Dynamic Panel Data Analysis
Nayan, Sabri; Kadir, Norsiah; Ahmad, Mahyudin; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
In recent years the issues of energy consumption and economic development have become the concern of many parties, particularly policy makers. The empirical outcomes of previous studies examining the relationship between energy consumption and economic growth have been inconclusive and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011110569
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The nexus between economic freedom and growth: Evidence from CEE countries in transition
Gurgul, Henryk; Lach, Łukasz - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This study sought to examine the causal links between economic freedom and economic growth of new EU members in transition in the period 2000-2009. The empirical results suggest significant causality running from monetary and fiscal freedom, trade openness, regulation of credit, labour, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258855
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A question of causality between political corruption, economic freedom and economic growth in Europe
Kuloglu, Ayhan; Lobont, Oana-Ramona; Topcu, Mert - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Economic, cultural, social, psychological, political, administrative and religious effects of corruption are manifested … political corruption, by reducing the transparent and accountable political power or by social tensions and increasing … impoverishment of the population. In the executive activity, corruption has an effect on the reduced quality of public administration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260613
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Budget Deficits, Economic Freedom, and Economic Growth in OECD Nations: P2SLS Fixed-Effects Estimates, 2003-2008
Cebula, Richard - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This study empirically investigates the impacts of central government budget deficits and economic freedom on per capita real economic growth in OECD nations over the period 2003–2008. Economic growth is measured by the percentage growth rate of purchasing-power-parity adjusted real per capita...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260725
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The Nexus between Improvements in Economic Freedom and Growth: Evidence from CEE Countries in Transition
Gurgul, Henryk; Lach, Łukasz - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This study examines the causal links between improvements in economic freedom and changes in GDP per capita of new EU members in transition in the period 2000-2009. The empirical results suggest significant causality running from changes in monetary and fiscal freedom, trade openness, regulation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260840