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Structural Change, Economic Growth and Poverty in OIC countries: the case of Indonesia, Malaysia, Nigeria and Turkey.

Naiya, Ismaeel Ibrahim - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

The paper uses available data to compare and analyzes the relationships between structural change and economic growth in four OIC member countries (Indonesia, Malaysia, Nigeria and Turkey). The paper uses descriptive statistics to analyze and compare structural transformation in the study...

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Institutions and Foreign Direct Investment : China Versus the Rest of the World

Fan, Joseph P. H. - 2013

Weak institutions ought to deter foreign direction investment (FDI), and mass media stories highlight China …'s institutional deficiencies, yet China is now one of the world's largest FDI destinations. This incongruity characterizes China …'s paradoxical growth. Cross-country regressions show that China's FDI inflow is not exceptionally large, given the quality of its …

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Job Growth in Early Transition: Comparing Two Paths

Jurajda, Stepán; Terrell, Katherine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

Small start-up firms are the engine of job creation in early transition and yet little is known about the characteristics of this new sector. We seek to identify patterns of job growth in this sector in terms of niches left from central planning and ask about differences in job creation across...

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Fractional Reserve Banking as Economic Parasitism: A Scientific, Mathematical & Historical Expose, Critique, and Manifesto

Nuri, Vladimir Z. - EconWPA - 2002

This paper looks at the history of money and its modern form from a scientific and mathematical point of view. The approach here is to emphasize simplicity. A straightforward model and algebraic formula for a large economy analogous to the ideal gas law of thermodynamics is proposed. It may be...

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Culture, Institutions and the Wealth of Nations

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Roland, Gérard - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

We construct an endogenous growth model that includes a cultural variable along the dimension of individualism-collectivism. The model predicts that more individualism leads to more innovation because of the social rewards associated with innovation in an individualist culture. This cultural...

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Влияние на човешкия капитал върху икономическия растеж (България, 1949-2005 г.)

Simeonova-Ganeva, Ralitsa - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

In Bulgaria, during the transition to market-oriented economy, many analyzes are based on the widely held view that one of the positive legacies of the economies in transition (particularly that of Bulgaria) is the high level of human capital. The high degree of development of education and...

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How East Asia grew so fast? slow progress towards an analytical consensus

Singh, Ajit - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1994

Abstract Although in the post-World War II period as a whole, developing countries have made substantial economic and industrial progress, during the last decade or so, many of them, particularly in Latin America and Africa, have been in an acute economic crisis. As a consequence, these...

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Is “economic freedom” strictly free market capitalism? A decompositional analysis of the Economic Freedom of the World index

Cohen, Joseph N - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

The Frasier Institute’s Economic Freedom of the World is often taken as a metric of market capitalism. This paper argues that the index is an amalgam of measures capturing free markets and good governance, and analysts should remain cognizant of this conceptual conflation when using the index...

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Law, economic growth and human development

Simplice A., Asongu - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

This paper cuts adrift the mainstream approach to the legal-origins debate on the law-growth nexus by integrating both overall economic and human components in our understanding of how regulation quality and the rule of law lie at the heart of economic and inequality adjusted human developments....

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Technological diversification in China: Based on Chinese patent analysis during 1986-2011

Ning, Lutao; Prevezer, Martha; Wang, Yuandi - Centre for Globalisation Research (CGR), School of … - 2014

(following Cantwell, Vertova 2004 for major developed economies) for China over three periods: from its premarket status 1986 … towards technological specialization between 1965 and 1990 (Cantwell and Vertova 2004). In China this represents a shift away …

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