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Does energy efficiency promote economic growth? : evidence from a multi-country and multi-sector panel data set
Rajbhandari, Ashish; Zhang, Fan - 2017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011730273
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The relationship between conflicts, economic shocks, and death with depression, economic activities, and human capital investment in Nigeria
Jamison, Julian C.; McGee, Kevin Robert; Oseni, Gbemisola; … - 2018
This paper examines the links between adverse events, depression, and decision making in Nigeria. It investigates how events such as conflicts, shocks, and deaths can affect short-term perceptions of welfare, as well as longer term decisions on economic activities and human capital investments....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012564785
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Inflation threshold levels and economic growth in the Franc zone countries
Sanga, Dimitri; Gui-Diby, Steve Loris - 2020
threshold above which additional inflationary pressures adversely affect economic expansion. It uses cointegration methods that … African Monetary Union and 4.3-4.5 percent in the West African Monetary Union. Homogeneous cointegration panel data analyses …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012388649
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Relationship between energy intensity and economic growth : new evidence from a multi-country multi-sector data set
Deichmann, Uwe; Reuter, Anna; Vollmer, Sebastian; Zhang, Fan - 2018
This paper revisits the relationship between energy intensity and economic growth, using a flexible piecewise linear regression model. Based on a panel data set of 137 economies during 1990-2014, the analysis identifies a threshold effect of income growth on energy intensity change: although...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011806837
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The global trade slowdown : cyclical or structural?
Constantinescu, Cristina; Mattoo, Aaditya; Ruta, Michele - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010464777
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On financial development and economic growth in the Arab Republic of Egypt
Mohieldin, Mahmoud Safwat; Hussein, Khaled A.; Rostom, Ahmed - 2019
This paper discusses the evolution of the Egyptian banking sector and the main trends in financial development in the Arab Republic of Egypt. The paper examines empirically the relationship between the development of the financial sector and economic growth in Egypt between 1980 and 2016. It...
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Adult mortality and consumption growth in the age of HIV/AIDS
Beegle, Kathleen; De Weerdt, Joachim; Dercon, Stefan - 2006
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Life expectancy at birth and lifetime education and earnings
Hoque, Mohammad Mainul; King, Elizabeth M.; Montenegro, … - 2020
Exploiting cross-birth cohort and cross-country variation from a pool of 188 household surveys from 111 countries, this paper measures how life expectancy at birth affects lifetime education and earnings. On average, individuals add one year of schooling for every 8.3 years of increased life...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012388740
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Lives and livelihoods : estimates of the global mortality and poverty effects of the Covid-19 pandemic
Decerf, Benoit; Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Mahler, … - 2020
This paper evaluates the global welfare consequences of increases in mortality and poverty generated by the Covid-19 … pandemic. Increases in mortality are measured in terms of the number of years of life lost (LY) to the pandemic. Additional … dominance of poverty over mortality is reversed in a counterfactual "herd immunity" scenario: without any policy intervention …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012241367
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Taxing tobacco in Georgia : welfare and distributional gains of smoking cessation
Fuchs Tarlovsky, Alan; González Icaza, María Fernanda - 2020
This paper analyzes the welfare and distributional impacts of increasing taxes on cigarettes in Georgia. Increasing taxes on tobacco is an effective measure to reduce smoking. According to some estimates, increasing tobacco taxes could save more than GEL 3.6 billion and 53 thousand lives over a...
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