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Education in Post-Independent Eritrea – A Brief Description
Rena, Ravinder - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
Education is an important pillar in the national economic development. It contributes to economic growth in varied … education plays a key role in the development after independence. This paper discusses educational growth and development in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835622
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African Jobless Growth Morphology:Vulnerabilities and Policy Responses
NWAOBI, GODWIN - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
As by product of economic growth, jobs are indeed transformational. In other words, efficiency increases as workers get better at what they do (as more productive jobs appear and less productive one disappear). In fact societies flourish as jobs bring together people from different ethnic and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011107833
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Education and Economic Growth in India
Chakraborty, K.S; krishnankutty, Raveesh - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
The paper focuses on the expenditure on education as determinant on economic growth. The study examine the relationship … between education and economic growth in total number of states as a whole , Non special category states, special category … education and Expenditure on education as a percentage of aggregate expenditure. The result of the study shows that expenditure …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011110494
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China's March to Prosperity: Reforms to Avoid the Middle-income Trap
Koen, Vincent; Herd, Richard; Hill, Sam - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013
liberalisation; strengthening competition in markets for goods and services; education, research and innovation. Progress is also … document : la libéralisation du secteur financier ; renforcer la concurrence sur les marchés des biens et services ; l’éducation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011277005
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Using Supply, Demand, and the Cournot Model to Understand Corruption
Hayford, Marc D. - In: Journal of Economic Education 38 (2007) 3, pp. 331-340
The author combines the supply and demand model of taxes with a Cournot model of bribe takers to develop a simple and useful framework for understanding the effect of corruption on economic activity. There are many examples of corruption in both developed and developing countries. Because...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005464463
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The Tourism-led Growth Hypothesis: Empirical Evidence from Colombia
Brida, Juan Gabriel; Pereyra, Juan S.; Risso, Wiston Adrián - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
The purpose of this study is to investigate the contribution of tourism to economic growth in Colombia. First, we perform an ex-post analysis and quantify the contribution of the tourism to economic growth from the early 90’s until 2006 by disaggregating growth of real GDP per capita into...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008646839
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Causality between Economic Growth and Tourism Expansion: Empirical Evidence from Trentino - Alto Adige
Brida, Juan Gabriel; Barquet, Andrea; Risso, Wiston Adrián - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
This paper investigates the causal relations between tourism growth, relative prices and economic expansion for the Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, a region of northeast Italy bordering on Switzerland and Austria. Johansen cointegration analysis shows the existence of one cointegrated vector...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008646847
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Tourism Development Policy, Strategic Alliances and Impact of Consumer Price Index on Tourist Arrivals: The Case of Malaysia
Nanthakumar, Loganathan; Ibrahim, Yahaya; Harun, Madzli - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Many studies have shown the importance of tourism industry in enhancing trade performance and economic development. This study examines the hypothesis of ‘economic-driven’ tourism growth in Malaysia by using econometric modelling. To generate the empirical analysis, this study used data from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008680977
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New growth theories: what is in there for developing countries?
Islam, Nazrul - In: Journal of Developing Areas 38 (2004) 1, pp. 171-212
This paper reviews new growth theories (NGT) from the perspective of developing countries. It shows that despite some views to the contrary, NGT and the growth debate that it spawned have some useful lessons for developing countries. Some of these lessons and ideas were indeed available from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011213048
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Editor’s introduction. the future of agricultural biotechnology: creative destruction, adoption, or irrelevance?–in honor of Prof. Vittorio Santaniello.
Wesseler, Justus; Scatasta, Sara - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
With the death of Prof. Vittorio Santaniello in the summer of 2007, the International Consortium for Agricultural Biotechnology Research (ICABR) lost one of its most enthusiastic founders and most important contributors. This special issue celebrates Prof. Santaniello’s commitment to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009325671