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Purpose – This paper seeks to explore the factors behind the slow growth of economies with abundant oil and gas resources, despite the opportunities these resources potentially represent. Design/methodology/approach – The building blocks of standard economic growth models and the implication...
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This 2009 Article IV Consultation highlights that reforms initiated earlier this decade in Nigeria have averted the boom–bust pattern that characterized previous oil price cycles and better prepared the economy to deal with the global financial crisis. Non-oil growth averaged 9 percent...
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Purpose – The demand for oil in agricultural production increases continuously with the world oil price soaring, reflecting a rigid growth characteristic, but there are no clear reasons for this. The purpose of this paper is to assess the essential reasons of this issue in theoretical and...
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Recent studies of European countries indicate that the contribution of the ICT sectors to the regional economy is weakening and slowing economic growth. The present study investigates the contribution of the ICT sectors to economic performance in the European economies using Input–Output (IO)...
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educational improvements are expected to play as a driver of future income convergence in Europe. We concentrate on income … convergence dynamics between emerging economies in Central and Eastern Europe and Western European countries during the next 50 … exercise shows that the returns to investing in education in terms of income convergence in Europe could be sizeable, although …
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Purpose – The aim of this paper is to investigate the impact of exogenous shocks of remittances on consumption, investment, imports and output in five Mediterranean countries. Design/methodology/approach – This paper builds a Keynesian type econometric model with a dynamic perspective and a...
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El trabajo sostiene que la debilidad de la demanda interna es una  variable determinante del lento crecimiento de la productividad del  trabajo que han registrado las economías europeas a lo largo de las  últimas décadas. Asimismo se constata que el (bajo) ritmo de  crecimiento de la...
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