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Equilibrium Fictions : A Cognitive Approach to Societal Rigidity
Hoff, Karla - 2017
equilibrium fictions. In the framework of this paper, technology, contacts with the outside world, and changes in power and wealth …
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Emerging and Developing Economies : Ten Years after the Global Recession
Kose, M. Ayhan - 2020
, they now appear less well placed to cope with the substantial downside risks facing the global economy. In many EMDEs, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012841602
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The Heterogeneous Growth Effects of the Business Environment : Firm-Level Evidence for a Global Sample of Cities
Reyes, Jose Daniel - 2017
Using firm-level data covering 709 cities in 128 countries, this paper examines the role of a comprehensive list of business environment variables at the subnational level in explaining firm employment and productivity growth. The analysis finds basic protection, access to finance and...
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Does Energy Efficiency Promoteeconomic Growth? : Evidence from a Multi-Country and Multi-Sector Panel Data Set
Rajbhandari, Ashish - 2017
This paper examines the causal relationship between energy efficiency and economic growth based on panel data for 56 high- and middle-income countries from 1978 to 2012. Using a panel vector autoregression approach, the study finds evidence of a long-run Granger causality from economic growth to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012954323
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Financial Inclusion and Inclusive Growth : A Review of Recent Empirical Evidence
Demirgüç-Kunt, Asli - 2017
and poor adults. This paper provides an overview of financial inclusion around the world and reviews the recent empirical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012957773
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Variance and Skewness in Density Predictions : A World GDP Growth Forecast Assessment
Mendez Ramos, Fabian - 2019
surveys on expectations and implied statistics of predictive models. The BCEF procedure is applied to produce world GDP growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012901276
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Assessing the Effect of Public Capital on Growth : An Extension of the World Bank Long-Term Growth Model
Devadas, Sharmila - 2018
World Bank?s Long-Term Growth Model (LTGM), by separating the total capital stock into public and private portions, with the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012909745
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The Effect of Increasing Human Capital Investment on Economic Growth and Poverty : A Simulation Exercise
Collin, Matthew Edward - 2018
the 75th percentile of what was observed in the data. In the former, world GDP per capita is 5 percent higher than …, world GDP per capita is 12 percent higher than baseline in 2050, while the rate of $1.90 poverty drops by 1.4 percentage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012910532
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Measuring Human Capital
Angrist, Noam - 2019
Students around the world are going to school but are not learning -- an emerging gap in human capital formation. To … percent of the world's population from 2000 to 2017. The data set will be publicly available and updated annually by the World …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892686
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Does the Global Trade Slowdown Matter?
Constantinescu, Cristina - 2018
Since the Global Financial Crisis, world trade growth has been subdued and lagging slightly behind growth of gross … trade-income relationship, and then investigates its consequences for economic growth. On the demand side, sluggish world …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012936149