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Capital Flight and Economic Performance
Beja, Edsel Jr. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
calculations on the Philippines suggest that capital flight contributed to lower the quality of long-term economic growth …. Sustained capital flight over three decades means that capital flight had a role for the Philippines to lose the opportunities … the macroeconomy more effectively, the Philippines remains caught in the perpetuity of crises, its economy hollowed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005260151
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Analysing the contribution of business services to European economic growth
Kox, Henk L.M.; Rubalcaba, Luis - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
The sector business services contributes directly and indirectly to aggregate economic growth in Europe. The direct contribution comes from the sector’s own dynamism. Though the business-services industry appears to be characterised by strong cyclical volatility, there was also a strong...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005790451
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Balance-of-payments-constrained growth in a multisectoral framework: a panel data investigation
Gouvea, Raphael Rocha; Lima, Gilberto Tadeu - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper contributes to the literature on balance-of-payments-constrained growth by providing an innovative empirical evaluation of a disaggregated version of the so-called Thirlwall's Law derived from a Pasinettian multisectoral framework. After estimating sectoral elasticities of exports and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008927059
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Factor Endowment, Structural Change, and Economic Growth
Che, Natasha Xingyuan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper aims (1) to test the endowment-based structural change theory proposed by recent studies such as Acemoglu & Guerrieri (2008) and Ju, Lin & Wang (2009); and (2) to explore the linkage between structural coherence and economic growth. By structural coherence, I refer to the degree that...
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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
The paper uses available data to compare and analyzes the relationships between structural change and economic growth in four OIC member countries (Indonesia, Malaysia, Nigeria and Turkey). The paper uses descriptive statistics to analyze and compare structural transformation in the study...
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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...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012992709
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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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