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What Drives A Long-Term Relationship In Microcredit? Insights from a Cambodian Microfinance Institution
Lanzavecchia, Alberto - 2016
This article examines the determinants of the nominal value of loans in microcredit and the factors that drive long-term relationship banking. The dataset is drawn from primary data gathered from 216 randomly selected borrowers in a Cambodian microfinance institution. Analysis is performed using...
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India's economic growth: From socialist rate of growth to Bharatiya rate of growth
Virmani, Arvind - 2004
innovations in this paper is to take explicit account of rainfallvariations that play a very important role in the Indian economy …. This allows us todetermine whether the Indian economy has become less dependent on the monsoons(`drought proof'). It also …
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Mainstreaming Migration in Development Agendas : Assessment of South Asian Countries
Wickramasekara, Piyasiri - 2015
There has been increased emphasis on the linkages between international migration and development at international, regional and national levels in the past two decades. This recognition of migration as a developmental tool has generated calls for mainstreaming migration in development with some...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013028369
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Digital labour platforms and migrant workers: Analysing migrants' working conditions and (over)representation in platform work in Europe
Zwysen, Wouter; Piasna, Agnieszka - 2024
, due to relatively lower entry barriers, including formal requirements, compared to the traditional economy. However, the … addresses this gap by analysing the presence of migrants and their work patterns in the European platform economy, using …-migrant platform workers in their experiences with the platform economy in terms of earnings, hours worked and the use of one or …
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Steam as a General Purpose Technology: A Growth Accounting Perspective
Crafts, Nicholas F. R. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2003
In recent years there has been an upsurge of interest among growth economists in General Purpose Technologies (GPTs). A GPT can be defined as "a technology that initially has much scope for improvement and evntually comes to be widely used, to have many uses, and to have many Hicksian and...
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Macroeconomic determinants of exit from aid-dependence
Hailu, Degol; Shiferaw, Admasu - 2012
This paper analyses macroeconomic aspects of exit from aid-dependence. By 'exit from aid', we mean substantial and enduring decline over time in Official Development Assistance (ODA) as a share of Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The relevant macroeconomic variables are identified by systematically...
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The impact of inflation targeting on unemployment in developing and emerging economies
Divino, Jose Angelo - 2009
Several countries around the world have adopted the inflation targeting regime for monetary policy. Despite the growing literature on the issue, it is not clear whether developing and emerging countries can improve their economic performance by adopting inflation targeting. This working paper...
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Solving consumption models with multiplicative habits
Carroll, Christopher D. - 2000
This paper provides derivations necessary for solving an optimal consumption problem with multiplicative habits and a CRRA 'outer' utility function either for a microeconomic problem with both labor income risk and rate-of-return risk or for a macroeoconomic representative agent model.
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The relationship between housing investment and economic growth in China: A panel analysis using quarterly provincial data
Chen, Jie; Zhu, Aiyong - 2008
In this paper we investigate the long-run and short-run relationship between housing investment and economic growth in China using the quarterly province-level panel data for the period 1999 q1 to 2007 q4. Recently developed econometric techniques for panel unit root testing and heterogeneous...
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Does Free Trade Really Reduce Growth? Further Testing Using the Economic Freedom Index
Berggren, Niclas; Jordahl, Henrik - 2003
While studies of the relationship between economic freedom and economic growth have shown it to be positive, significant and robust, it has rightly been argued that different areas of economic freedom may have quite different effects on growth. Along that line, Carlsson and Lundström (2002)...
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