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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...
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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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The great equalizer?: Globalization effects on gender equality in Latin America and the Caribbean
Seguino, Stephanie - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
This paper assesses the impact of 30 years of globalization on gender equity in well-being in Latin America and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005790313
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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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FDI and Long-term Economic Growth in Russia
TAGANOV, BORIS - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
In this paper we consider relationship between foreign direct investment (as one of the mechanisms of technological development) and long-term economic growth. In the beginning we discuss the role of FDI in the increase of total factor productivity from the viewpoint of endogenous growth theory....
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Output Growth and Unexpected Government Expenditures
Escobari, Diego; Mollick, André Varella - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Solow’s growth model, as well as financial globalization and trade openness measures for a sample of 56 industrial and … of new information in an increasingly integrated world economy. …
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Latvia’s incoming in European Union economic effect estimation
Skribans, Valerijs - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Joining the European Union big opportunities in the international markets have opened for Latvia. Paper purpose is to investigate influence of international integration processes on development of economy of Latvia. In the paper Latvian economic indicators before and after entering the EU are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009216353
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China, India and the future of the global economy
Kwasnicki, Witold - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
future economic development of China and India (currently considered as the fastest-growing major economies in the world) are … World War II. One aim of that research is to compare the competitiveness of China and India with the leaders of economic …
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Globalization and growth in the low Income African countries with the extreme bounds analysis
Rao, B. Bhaskara; Vadlamannati, Krishna Chaitanya - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
The relationship between globalization and economic growth, especially in the poorer developing countries, is … controversial. Many previous studies have used single globalization indicators such as the ratio of exports plus imports to GDP …. This paper uses a comprehensive measure of a globalization of Dreher (2006), which is based on measures of globalization of …
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