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Economic Structure, Development Policy and Environmental Quality : An Empirical Analysis of Environmental Kuznets Curves with Chinese Municipal Data
He, Jie - 2017
-level panel dataset obtained from China. The results show that economic structure, development strategy and environmental …
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China : Global Crisis Avoided, Robust Economic Growth Sustained
Vincelette, Gallina Andronova - 2017
China's medium-term prospects for growth, poverty reduction, and development. The paper reviews China's pre-crisis growth … immediate impact of the global crisis on China's economic performance in 2009 and its likely impact in the short run. It then … paper explores China's medium-term growth prospects in light of the crisis and the key policies for moving to a robust 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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The Global Trade Slowdown : Cyclical or Structural?
Constantinescu, Cristina - 2018
This paper focuses on the sluggish growth of world trade relative to income growth in recent years. The analysis uses an empirical strategy based on an error correction model to assess whether the global trade slowdown is structural or cyclical. An estimate of the relationship between trade and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012937557
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Policy Challenges for Emerging and Developing Economies : Lessons from the Past Decade
Ruch, Franz Ulrich - 2020
The 2009 global recession demonstrated, once again, the importance of crisis prevention as well as the critical need for preserving policy room so that emerging market and developing economies (EMDEs) can act when their economies are hit by shocks. And now, with the global growth outlook still...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012839626
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Structural Change, Fundamentals, and Growth : A Framework and Case Studies
McMillan, Margaret - 2017
Developing countries made considerable gains during the first decade of the 21st century. Their economies grew at unprecedented rates, resulting in large reduction in extreme poverty and a significant expansion of the middle class. But more recently that progress has slowed with an economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012957710
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Human Capital and Macro-Economic Development : A Review of the Evidence
Rossi, Federico - 2018
This paper reviews the evidence on the importance of human capital for macro-economic development. Through the lens of a simple aggregate production function, human capital might increase output per capita by directly entering in the production process, incentivising the accumulation of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012907704
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Understanding Economic Growth in Ghana in Comparative Perspective
Geiger, Michael Tobias - 2019
Ghana has experienced a decade of solid and exceptionally high growth. Between 2005 and 2015, income nearly doubled. This paper analyzes the factors driving this impressive growth performance, using tools such as structural change decompositions and growth regressions. For the comparative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012895208
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Financial Development, Growth, and Crisis : Is There a Trade-Off?
Loayza, Norman - 2017
This paper reviews the evolving literature that links financial development, financial crises, and economic growth in the past 20 years. The initial disconnect -- with one literature focusing on the effect of financial deepening on long -- run growth and another studying its impact on volatility...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012943988
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Growth after War in Syria
Devadas, Sharmila - 2019
This paper addresses three questions: 1) what would have been the growth and income trajectory of Syria in the absence of war; 2) given the war, what explains the reduction in economic growth in terms physical capital, labor force, human capital, and productivity; and 3) what potential growth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012865082