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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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Trade Openness and Economic Growth: Analysis of the Channels of Influence
Feal-Zubimendi, Soledad - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
The literature that study the positive relation between openness and growth is extensive, but the discussion about it … and the influence of the openness´ channels. The channels in study are: technology transmition, exports, price distortion …, size of Government and foreign direct investment. The results report that openness influence growth through different links …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011245927
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International trade and economic growth in the Polish economy
Gurgul, Henryk; Lach, Łukasz - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
In this paper the results of linear and nonlinear causality examination performed for openness of Polish economy and … its economic growth are presented. In order to extract the impact of world crisis on Polish economy we decided to apply …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011261117
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Growth and openness: empirical evidence from Bangladesh
Haq, Munshi Masudul - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
The study seeks to investigate empirically the direction and shape of causality among trade openness, investment and … openness, national income growth and total investment. Furthermore, empirical results of Granger causality confirm that there … exists unidirectional causality between economic growth and investment; between trade openness and economic growth; and …
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Real GDP per capita since 1870
Kitov, Ivan; Kitov, Oleg - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
The growth rate of real GDP per capita in the biggest OECD countries is represented as a sum of two components – a steadily decreasing trend and fluctuations related to the change in some specific age population. The long term trend in the growth rate is modelled by an inverse function of real...
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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...
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Interrelationships and Causal Linkages Between Socioeconomic and Environmental Factors
Mariam, Yohannes; Barre, Mike; Urquhart, Lynda; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1997
The purpose of this study was to examine interrelationship and causal linkages between socioeconomic and environmental variables in OECD countries. To aid this study, a LISREL modelling tool was implemented. The findings of the study indicated that gross public debt increases with deterioration...
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Causal Relationship Between Indicators of Human Health, the Environment and Socioeconomic Variables for the OECD Countries
Mariam, Yohannes - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1999
There has been a lot of debate regarding the impact of emissions of pollutants on human health and the environment. Epidemiological studies tend to show the impact of increased ambient concentrations of pollutants on increased hospital admissions, mortality, morbidity, respiratory problems, etc....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005619828