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How Fast are the Tourism Countries Growing? The cross-country evidence
Brau, Rinaldo; Lanza, Alessandro; Pigliaru, Francesco - 2003
Specializing in tourism is an option available to a number of less developed countries and regions. But is it a good … option? To answer this question, we have compared the relative growth performance of 14 "tourism countries" within a sample … documented that the tourism countries grow significantly faster than all the other sub-groups considered in our analysis (OECD …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011325125
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New economy in growth and development
Pohjola, Matti - 2002
The benefits from the New Economy should accrue as improvements in productivity and economic growth. But while the use of information and communication technology seems to have had a substantial impact on the performance of the United States economy, the evidence for other countries is much...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010279209
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How Fast are Small Tourist Countries Growing? The 1980-2003 Evidence
Pigliaru, Francesco; Brau, Rinaldo; Lanza, Alessandro - 2007
We analyze the empirical relationship between growth, country size and tourism specialization by using a dataset … covering the period 1980-2003. We find that tourism countries grow significantly faster than all the other sub …-groups considered in our analysis. Tourism appears to be an independent determining factor for growth, and the reason for that is …
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Growth Effects of Fiscal Policies - A Comparative Analysis in a Multi-Country Context
Brons, Martijn; de Groot, Henri L.F.M.; Nijkamp, Peter - 1999
The potential interactions among fiscal policies, investments and economicgrowth are complex and manifold.In this paper, we will perform a systematic comparative analysis of the variouseconomic insights that arecurrently available on these complex relationships, both theoretically (by aselective...
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Takeoffs
Aizenman, Joshua; Spiegel, Mark - 2007
This paper identifies factors associated with takeoff - a sustained period of high growth following a period of stagnation. We examine a panel of 241 stagnation episodes" from 146 countries, 54 % of these episodes are followed by takeoffs. Countries that experience takeoffs average 2.3% annual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285304
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Are we there yet? Time for checks and balances on new institutionalism
Iyigun, Murat - 2012
economic development. If the sociopolitical, legal and economic transformations in the Anglo-Saxon world in the last three …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290007
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Tracing Empirical Trails of Schumpeterian Development
Peneder, Michael - 2004
Schumpeterian development is characterised by the simultaneous interplay of growth and qualitative transformations of the economic system. At the sectoral level, such qualitative transformations become manifest as variations in the sectoral composition of production. Following the implementation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011435155
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Tourism and economic growth: African evidence from panel vector autoregressive framework
Seetanah, Boopen; Padachi, Kessevan; Rojid, Sawkut - 2011
Using a panel vector autoregressive model this paper investigates the dynamic and endogeneous contribution of tourism … to output based on a sample of 40 African countries for the period 1990 - 2006. Results from the study confirm tourism to … main drivers. Further analysis reveals the existence of a reverse causation from national income to tourism development …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280162
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Ranking of Countries - The WEF, IMD, Fraser and Heritage Indices
Ochel, Wolfgang; Röhn, Oliver - In: CESifo DICE Report 04 (2006) 2, pp. 48-60
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Skill Intensity in Foreign Trade and Economic Growth
Woerz, Julia - 2004
This paper explores the link between trade structure, trade specialization and per capita incomegrowth. It is argued that industrial upgrading in export specialization patterns has a positive long-rungrowth effect, while the effect of structural change in industrial import patterns is in...
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