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On the causality between GDP and health care Eexpenditure in augmented Solow growth model

Heshmati, Almas - 2001

This paper examines conditional convergence of OECD countries in gross domestic product (GDP) and health care … economic growth and the speed of convergence. The speed of convergence is found to be sensitive to whether one imposes a … constant or estimate the depreciation and technological growth components. With no restrictions imposed the convergence rate is …

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On the Causality between GDP and Health Care Expenditure in Augmented Solow Growth Model

Heshmati, Almas - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 2001

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Political Economy of Industrialization and Industrial Parks in Ethiopia

Kebede, Selamawit G.; Heshmati, Almas - 2023

This study investigates the political economy of industrialization in Ethiopia. It discusses the economic and political institutions during three political regimes and assesses the industrial sector's performance across these different regimes. Further, it evaluates the different industrial...

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Technical Change and Total Factor Productivity Growth:The Case of Chinese Provinces

Heshmati, Almas; Kumbhakar, Subal - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2010

In the literature technical change is mostly assumed to be exogenous and specified as afunction of time. However, some exogenous external factors other than time can also affecttechnical change. In this paper we model technical change via time trend (purely externalnon-economic) as well as other...

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Technical change and total factor productivity growth for Chinese provinces: a panel data analysis

Shiu, Alice; Heshmati, Almas - 2006

We present in this paper the panel econometrics estimation approach of measuring the technical change and total factor productivity (TFP) growth of 30 Chinese provinces during the period of 1993 to 2003. The random effects model with heteroscedastic variances has been used for the estimation of...

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Technical change and total factor productivity growth: the case of Chinese provinces

Heshmati, Almas; Kumbhakar, Subal C. - 2010

In the literature technical change is mostly assumed to be exogenous and specified as a function of time. However, some exogenous external factors other than time can also affect technical change. In this paper we model technical change via time trend (purely external non-economic) as well as...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269407

A Survey of the Role of Fiscal Policy in Addressing Income Inequality, Poverty Reduction and Inclusive Growth

Heshmati, Almas; Kim, Jungsuk - 2014

A growing concern on widening income gap between the rich and the poor, the policy mismatch in tackling the relative poverty and income inequality have invited increasing volumes of research focusing on the nexus between equity and efficient growth. Developed countries have experienced the...

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The Relationship between Economic Growth and Democracy: Alternative Representations of Technological Change

Kim, Nam-Seok; Heshmati, Almas - 2017

This study investigates the relationship between economic growth and democracy by estimating a nation’s production function specified as static and dynamic models using panel data. In estimating the production function, it applies a single time trend, multiple time trends and the general index...

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The Relationship between Economic Growth and Democracy: Alternative Representations of Technological Change

Heshmati, Almas; Kim, Nam-Seok - 2017

This study investigates the relationship between economic growth and democracy by estimating a nation's production function specified as static and dynamic models using panel data. In estimating the production function, it applies a single time trend, multiple time trends and the general index...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011744592

Trade and Economic Growth: Theories and Evidence from the Southern African Development Community

Farahane, Matias Jaime; Heshmati, Almas - 2020

This paper empirically tests the hypothesis that trade can act as an engine of growth using panel data for the Southern African Development Community (SADC), a regional integration agreement (RIA) organization, the central objective of whose formation was the need to accelerate, foster, and...

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