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Income Distribution : Effects on Growth and Development
Birdsall, Nancy - 2007
underdeveloped markets for capital and information; (2) by discouraging the evolution of the economic and political institutions …
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Institutions and poverty : a critical comment based on evolving currents and debates
Asongu, Simplice A.; Kodila-Tedika, Oasis - 2014
Tebaldi & Mohan (2010, JDS) have established an empirical nexus between institutions and monetary poverty. We first … underlying study that institutions could have an indirect effect on multidimensional poverty. In other words, the poverty … eradication effect of institutions is through income-average as opposed to income-inequality. We discuss the confirmed findings in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011409163
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Re-examining the middle-income trap hypothesis : what to reject and what to revive?
Han, Xuehui; Wei, Shang-jin - 2015
Why do some economies grow faster than others? Do economies in the middle-income range face especially difficult challenges producing consistent growth? Using a transition matrix analysis on decade-level growth rates, we find that the data clearly reject the idea that middle-income economies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011305298
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Financial development, institutional quality and economic growth : evidence from ECOWAS countries
Appiah, Michael; Li, Fanglin; Frowne, Doreen Idan - In: Organizations and markets in emerging economies 11 (2020) 1, pp. 6-17
Most of the literature that explored the relationship between financial development and economic growth taking into consideration the roles played by institutional quality in the ECOWAS region still debates on the roles of institutional quality on economic growth. This study used data from...
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Income development and sigma convergence in South-South agreement areas
Sperlich, Yvonne; Sperlich, Stefan - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009666505
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Explaining Inequality between Countries : The Declining Role of Political Institutions
Hussey, Andrew - 2017
Within the fundamental determinants of cross-country income inequality, ‘humanly devised' political institutions … inequality explainable by differences in political institutions, we decompose annual cross-country Gini coefficients for 95 … (from a Gini of 0.525 to 0.521) but the portion that cannot be explained by political institutions has increased …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012962120
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Structural development accounting
Gancia, Gino Alessandro; Müller, Andreas; Zilibotti, … - 2011
We construct and estimate a unified model combining three of the main sources of cross-country income disparities: differences in factor endowments, barriers to technology adoption and the inappropriateness of frontier technologies to local conditions. The key components are different types of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009739171
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Structural Development Accounting
Gancia, Gino; Müller, Andreas; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - 2011
We construct and estimate a unified model combining three of the main sources of cross-country income disparities: differences in factor endowments, barriers to technology adoption and the inappropriateness of frontier technologies to local conditions. The key components are different types of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014184424
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Does trade cause long-run development? : theory and evidence from countries behind the Suez channel
Gerritse, Michiel - 2015 - Preliminary
Does trade improve institutions and contribute to long run growth? I develop a theory of trade, in which trade … liberalization provides incentive to change institutions in two ways. On the one hand, trade leads to specialization according to … comparative advantage, expanding the industries that do not rely on contracting institutions in less developed countries. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011478180
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Re-Examining the Middle-Income Trap Hypothesis : What to Reject and What to Revive?
Han, Xuehui - 2015
Why do some economies grow faster than others? Do economies in the middle-income range face especially difficult challenges producing consistent growth? Using a transition matrix analysis on decade-level growth rates, we find that the data clearly reject the idea that middle income economies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013009680