We investigate the relationship between remittances inflow and economic growth in a sample of 65 emerging countries … over the period 1988-2018 using the semi-parametric panel data model with fixed effects as proposed by Baltagi and Li (2002 …). Our empirical results show that the effect of remittances inflow on economic growth exhibits a highly nonlinear pattern …

This paper describes the application of a semiparametric approach, known as a varying coefficients model (Hastie and …

growth and dynamic welfare with special reference to South Africa. While water may become a limiting factor for future … development in general, as a drought prone and water poor country with rapid population growth, South Africa may face more serious …

Building on a Kaleckian-structuralist macroeconomic growth model this paper examines the impact of the interaction … between labor market gender equality and social reproduction (SR) or care provisioning, on economic growth across U.S. states … relationship between women's labor force participation rate (WLFPR) and state's per-capita growth rate across these regimes. The …

at least half of product innovation and growth comes from firms that never patent. We also find that market leaders use …

utilization. First, it explains why utilization is a crucial variable for the various theories of growth and distribution … growth rate of demand that matters, not the level of demand. …

We obtain time series estimates of the long run growth rates of 17 OECD countries, and test the hypothesis that these … long run growth rates, and; (ii) any policies that can raise national growth rates must be international in scope. The … results therefore have bleak implications for the ability of countries to affect their long run growth rates. …