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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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Greening Global Value Chains : Innovation and the International Diffusion of Technologies and Knowledge
Glachant, Matthieu - 2017
literature, the paper seeks to lay out the state of knowledge on the role of innovation and the diffusion of technologies in the … absorptive capacities. In contrast, their role in innovation is limited. Standard tools of innovation policy - public research …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012974291
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Green Growth -- Lessons from Growth Theory
Smulders, Sjak - 2017
This paper reviews dynamic general equilibrium models in order to collect insights on the interaction between economic growth and environmental issues. The authors discuss the Ramsey model and extend it for natural resource inputs and pollution, as well as for endogenous technical change. Green...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012974895
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Green Growth, Technology and Innovation
Dutz, Mark Andrew - 2017
The paper explores existing patterns of green innovation and presents an overview of green innovation policies for …) there is potential for expanding green production and trade; and (5) there has been little base-of-pyramid green innovation … innovation, technology and environmental policies work best in tandem, focusing on three complementary areas: (1) to promote …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975519
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Inequality of Opportunity and Economic Growth : A Cross-Country Analysis
Ferreira, Francisco H. G. - 2017
Income differences arise from many sources. While some kinds of inequality, caused by effort differences, might be associated with faster economic growth, other kinds, arising from unequal opportunities for investment, might be detrimental to economic progress. This study uses two new metadata...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012966024
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The State of Economics, the State of the World
Basu, Kaushik - 2017
the World," is an idiosyncratic stocktaking of the trajectory of economics from Adam Smith to contemporary times, with … the nature of knowledge engagement the World Bank Group is expected to have with the world …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012967913
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On the Impact of Demographic Change on Growth, Savings, and Poverty
Cruz, Marcio José Vargas da - 2017
Changing population age structures are shaping the trajectories of development in many countries, bringing opportunities and challenges. While aging has been a matter of concern for upper-middle and high-income economies, rapid population growth is set to continue in the poorest countries over...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012968199
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Geopolitics, Aid, and Growth : The Impact of Un Security Council Membership on the Effectiveness of Aid
Dreher, Axel - 2017
The paper investigates the effects of short-term political motivations on the effectiveness of foreign aid. Specifically, the paper tests whether the effect of aid on economic growth is reduced by the share of years a country served on the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) in the period the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012968630
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Quantifying Uncertainties in Global Growth Forecasts
Ohnsorge, Franziska - 2017
This paper presents a procedure to construct an asymmetric fan chart of risks around global growth forecasts. The distribution of risks around global growth forecasts is estimated by weighting information extracted from option pricing and survey-based measures of risk factors of global growth....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012968631
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Globalization of Labor Markets and the Growth Prospects of Nations
Basu, Kaushik - 2017
The many and varied crises in the world economy since 2007 seem to have different origins and diverse manifestations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012969887