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Tourism and economic growth in Latin American countries : a panel data approach

Eugenio-Martín, Juan Luis; Morales, Noelia Martín; … - 2004

We consider the relationship between tourism and economic growth for Latin American countries since 1985 until 1998. The analysis proposed is based on a panel data approach and the Arellano-Bond estimator for dynamic panels. We obtain estimates of the relationship between economic growth and...

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Women's rights and development

Fernández, Raquel - 2010

Why has the expansion of women's economic and political rights coincided with economic development? This paper investigates this question, focusing on a key economic right for women: property rights. The basic hypothesis is that the process of development (i.e., capital accumulation and...

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The incidence of recent child health improvements in Africa

Sahn, David E.; Younger, Stephen D. - 2014

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When does foreign direct investment lead to inclusive growth?

Kang, Hyojung; Martinez-Vazquez, Jorge - 2021

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Growth and risk : a view from international trade

Krishna, Pravin; Levchenko, Andrei A.; Ma, Lin; … - 2023

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Weather and income : lessons from the main European regions

García-León, David - 2015

Some recent papers by Dell et al. (2009) and Dell et al. (2012) (DJO) relating weather and economic outcomes, have delivered meaningful messages with clear implications to the effects of a changing climate. In a nutshell, the authors claim that a 1°C increase in global average temperatures...

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Access to modern energy : a review of impact evaluations

Bonan, Jacopo; Pareglio, Stefano; Tavoni, Massimo - 2014

Universal access to modern energy services, in terms of access to electricity and to modern cooking facilities, has been recognized as fundamental challenge for development and is likely to be included in the post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals. Despite a strong praise for action and several...

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Sectoral infrastructure investment in an unbalanced growing economy : the case of India

Ghate, Chetan; Glomm, Gerhard; Liu, Jialu - 2012

We study the sectoral allocation of public infrastructure investments in the agriculture and manufacturing sectors in … agriculture in India has fallen, while it has risen in manufacturing. To match these observations we construct a two sector OLG … for a CES production function in the manufacturing sector. We conduct several policy experiments on the sectoral …

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"Grease" or "sand" the wheels of economic development : a meta-analysis of corruption

Hugo, Ella; Savage, David; Torgler, Benno - 2021

Corruption literature within economics has long returned ambiguous results with no concise cause or impact of corruption identified. This meta-analysis aims to find synergy within the corruption literature by assessing macroeconomic empirical studies that evaluate whether corruption "greases or...

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Access to modern energy : a review of barriers, drivers and impacts

Bonan, Jacopo; Pareglio, Stefano; Tavoni, Massimo - 2016 - This version: 5 July 2016

Universal access to modern energy services, in terms of access to electricity and to modern cooking facilities, has been recognized as a fundamental challenge for development. Despite strong praise for action and the deployment of large-scale electrification programs and improved cookstove (ICS)...

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