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Regional and subregional analyses of macroeconomic policy strategies for growth and equality in Southern Africa
Sahoo, Dukhabandhu; Mishra, Diptimayee; Sahoo, Auro Kumar; … - 2020
We investigate the relevance of beta (Ø, absolute and conditional) and sigma (σ) convergence in the economies of …, allowing an understanding of growth and inequality in the region. The region has experienced Ø- and σ-convergence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012424163
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Redistribution around the world: Causes and consequences
Jäntti, Markus; Pirttilä, Jukka; Rönkkö, Risto - 2016
This paper re-examines the determinants and consequences of redistribution in light of improved data and methods relative to earlier literature. In particular, we use the latest version of the UNU-WIDER' Income Inequality Database to have the best available estimates of both pre- and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653945
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Structural transformation, openness, and productivity growth in sub-Saharan Africa
Karimu, Suale - 2019
This paper examines the connections of structural change and economic openness to labour productivity growth using a panel data set of 41 countries in sub-Saharan Africa for the period 1991-2015. A dynamic panel model of cross-country productivity growth is estimated using the least squares with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012423975
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Industrialization in developing countries: Is it related to poverty reduction?
Erumban, Abdul Azeez; De Vries, Gaaitzen J. - 2021
This paper proposes an empirical framework that relates poverty reduction to production growth. We use the GGDC/UNU-WIDER Economic Transformation Database to measure the contribution to growth of productivity improvements within sectors and structural change-the reallocation of workers across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012807480
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Structural transformation and sources of growth in Turkey
Kaya, Ahmet Ihsan; Çiçekçi, Cumhur - 2023
This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of the supply and demand side of structural transformation in Turkey. Using the GGDC/UNU-WIDER Economic Transformation Database, we find that labour productivity improvements explain more than half of economic growth in the period 1980-2021. This is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014477586
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Tourism and economic growth: African evidence from panel vector autoregressive framework
Seetanah, Boopen; Padachi, Kessevan; Rojid, Sawkut - 2011
Using a panel vector autoregressive model this paper investigates the dynamic and endogeneous contribution of tourism … to output based on a sample of 40 African countries for the period 1990 - 2006. Results from the study confirm tourism to … main drivers. Further analysis reveals the existence of a reverse causation from national income to tourism development …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280162
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International aid to southern Europe in the early post-war period: The cases of Greece and Italy
Sotiropoulos, Dimitri A. - 2013
After the Second World War, both Greece and Italy experienced a Left-Right political polarization and a reproduction of earlier patterns of political patronage. Both Italy and Greece received international aid, including emergency relief, interim loans, and Marshall Plan funds. By the beginning...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333711
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Invisible, successful, and divided Vietnamese in Germany since the late 1970s
Bösch, Frank; Su, Phi Hong - 2018
Until the 1970s, only 1000 Vietnamese lived in West and East Germany, most of them international students. West Germany, in particular, had not yet been confronted with non-European refugees. This changed after 1978 with the influx of around 35,000 "boat people" from Viet Nam and other countries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011943822
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The loser's long curse: Electoral consequences of a class conflict
Meriläinen, Jaakko; Mitrunen, Matti - 2022
This paper presents evidence of political legacies of exposure to a violent class conflict over 100 years. We revisit the Finnish Civil War of 1918 and first trace out the impact of local conflict exposure on electoral outcomes over a quarter-century period between the World Wars. The electoral...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014322646
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Energy system and economy-wide implications of a rapid transition to decarbonized energy in South Africa
Caetano, Tara; Merven, Bruno - 2017
Developed as well as developing countries will have to increase their ambition relative to their stated Nationally Determined Contributions to limit global temperature increases to 2êC above pre-industrial levels. South Africa's Nationally Determined Contribution, in line with national policy,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011654036