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Something of a Paradox: The Neglect of Agriculture in Economic Development
Bezemer, Dirk J.; Headey, Derek D. - 2006
This paper argues that investment in agriculture has a large and continuing developmental importance in terms of both economic growth and poverty reduction. Moreover, targeted public resources have proven to be indispensable in achieving these results. Both arguments are supported with novel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009442552
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What drives fiscal decentralisation? Further assessing the role of income
Bodman, Philip; Hodge, Andrew - 2010
This paper investigates the determinants of fiscal decentralisation, focusing in particular on the impact of the level of income on the level of fiscal decentralisation. Various measures of fiscal decentralisation, several of them novel in this context, are employed in a cross-country...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009448196
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Ausländische Direktinvestitionen als Wachstumsmotor? - Eine Empirische Analyse am Beispiel Lateinamerikas
Hinrichs, Cord - 2005
kausale Beziehung zwischen ausländischen Direktinvestitionen (DI) und Wirtschaftswachstum in 6 lateinamerikanischen Ländern … aufgeworfen, wie die Interaktion zwischen DI und inländischem Wirtschaftswachstum zu sehen ist. Auch wenn in der theoretischen als … auch empirischen Literatur signifikante Belege für eine Verbindung zwischen DI und Wirtschaftswachstum zu finden sind, so …
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Annual Hard Frosts and Economic Growth
Zuo, Xinjuan - 2005
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Development and Gender Inequality ; Development and Gender Inequality
Lamanna, Francesca - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010353250
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Essays on the Theory of Productive Government Activity and Economic Growth
Kühnel, Johanna - 2010
Wirtschaftswachstum aus theoretischer Sicht.Kapitel 2 gibt eine Übersicht über die theoretische Literatur zur Rolle von Staatsausgaben für … Bevölkerungsalterung auf langfristiges Wirtschaftswachstum und die Zusammensetzung von Staatsausgaben auswirkt, wenn die Regierungspolitik … Wirtschaftswachstum. Allerdings kann Alterung der Bevölkerung einen gegenläufigen positiven Wachstumseffekt auslösen. Die Intuition für …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476199
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Corruption, fiscal policy, and growth: A unified approach
Ghosh, S; Neanidis, KC - 2011
In this paper, we study the effects of bureaucratic corruption on fiscal policy and the subsequent impact on economic growth. Here corruption takes three forms: (i) it reduces the tax revenue raised from households, (ii) it inflates the volume of government spending, and (iii) it reduces the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009480843
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Growth effects of public expenditure on the state and local level: evidence from a sample of rich governments
Torgler, Benno; Schaltegger, Christoph A. - 2006
There is a vast empirical literature investigating the relationship between government size and economic growth. But the empirical evidence of growth effects of public expenditure using cross-country regressions is still inconclusive. According to a number of authors this is not surprising since...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009483489
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SOLUTIONS FOR INCREASING PUBLIC BUDGET REVENUE IN BULGARIA, CROATIA, CZECH REPUBLIC, POLAND AND ROMANIA
MOSTEANU, Narcisa Roxana - 2015
The research paper is a comparative analysis of the budget revenue in Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Poland and Romania, taking into account the main features in light of the contribution of indirect and direct taxes and social contributions to the achievement of public revenues. Theme...
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