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Growth prospects of oil and gas abundant economies: the Nigerian experience (1970-2000)
Ibrahim, Musa Jega - In: Journal of Economic Studies 35 (2008) May, pp. 170-190
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005081170
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The European Labour Markets - The Search for Routes to Better Economic Performance in Continental Europe
Zoega, Gylfi; Phelps, Edmund - In: CESifo Forum 5 (2004) 1, pp. 3-11
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004998729
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Nigeria; 2009 Article IV Consultation-Staff Report; Staff Supplement; Public Information Notice on the Executive Board Discussion; Statement by the IMF Staff Representative; and St...
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2009
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011243651
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Rigid growth characteristic of demand for oil in China's agro-production
Wang, Lihong; Tian, Zhihong - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 1 (2009) 3, pp. 327-341
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004995242
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The globalization and stagnation of the ICT sectors in European countries: An input-output analysis
Rohman, Ibrahim Kholilul - In: Telecommunications Policy 37 (2013) 4, pp. 387-399
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)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010943070
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Income convergence prospects in Europe: Assessing the role of human capital dynamics
Cuaresma, Jesus Crespo; Havettova, Miroslava; Labaj, Martin - Vienna University of Economics and Business, Department … - 2012
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010556955
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The contribution of remittances to growth: A dynamic approach and empirical analysis
Glytsos, Nicholas P. - In: Journal of Economic Studies 32 (2005) October, pp. 468-496
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004964078
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European Productivity Gaps Is R&D the Solution?
Meister, Christoph; Verspagen, Bart - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2005
This paper investigates the potential impact of increased business R&D efforts in Europe on the total factor … productivity gap between European and U.S. industry. The paper addresses Europe’s ambition, expressed at the 2000 Lisbon Summit to … become “the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world”, and the 3% R&D intensity target for Europe …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005839251
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Una estimación del crecimiento económico en la Edad Moderna
Zanden, Jan Luiten van - In: Investigaciones de Historia Económica (IHE) Journal of … 2 (2005), pp. 9-38
The paper discusses different attempts to measure economic growth in Europe before the Industrial Revolution. It is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008543337
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Growing at the production frontier. European aggregate growth, 1870-1914
Carreras, Albert; Josephson, Camilla - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2009
age”. GDP growth was quite rapid (2.15% per annum) and diffused all over Europe. Even discounting the high rates of …. Within Europe, convergence was limited, and it only was in motion after 1900. What happened was more the end of the era of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008527350