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Measurement error in education and growth regressions
Portela, Miguel; Alessie, Rob; Teulings, Coen N. - 2005
The perpetual inventory method used for the construction of education data per country leads to systematic measurement … education level between census data and observations constructed from enrolment data. We discuss a methodology for correcting …
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A model of human capital, time discounting and economic growth
Bauer, Michal (contributor); Chytilová, Julie (contributor) - 2008
development regimes and it illustrates wider role of education in tackling possible development traps. -- growth ; human capital … ; education ; time discounting ; discount rate ; poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003755176
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Measurement Error in Education and Growth Regressions
Portela, Miguel - 2008
The perpetual inventory method used for the construction of education data per country leads to systematic measurement … education level between census data and observations constructed from enrolment data. We discuss a methodology for correcting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012774497
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Education, Sectoral Composition and Growth
Kaboski, Joseph K. - In: Review of Economic Dynamics 12 (2009) 1, pp. 168-182
with less unexplained growth. The theory distinguishes between three different sources of education gains: (1) supply …
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HEALTH, EDUCATION AND ECONOMIC GROWTH: TESTING FOR LONG-RUN RELATIONSHIPS AND CAUSAL LINKS in the United States
Aka, Bédia F.; Dumont, J.C. - In: Applied Econometrics and International Development 8 (2008) 2, pp. 101-110
This paper examines the causal relationships between human capital (Education, and Health) and Economic growth for the …-VAR investigations show bi-directional causality between Education and Health. Causality also exists from Education to Economic growth … show that the long-run dynamics of growth are slightly explained by past health and education level, and the health level …
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Corruption, Investment and Economic Growth in Developing Countries : A Panel Smooth Transition Regression Approach
2019
This article studies from a sample of 110 countries between 2006 and 2016, the relationship between Corruption, investment and growth. Using the Panel Smooth Transition Regression (PSTR), we show that there is a non-linearity between growth and investment versus corruption, characterized by a...
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Investing in Electricity, Growth, and Debt Sustainability : The Case of Lesotho
Andreolli, Michele - 2016
This paper analyses a large public investment in a construction of a hydropower plant in Lesotho and its implications on the growth and debt sustainability. The paper employs an open economy dynamic general equilibrium model to assess the benefits of a large public investment through...
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Tracking Under-Reported Financial Flows : China's Development Finance and the Aid-Conflict Nexus Revisited
Strange, Austin - 2015
China's provision of development finance to other countries is sizable but reliable information is scarce. We introduce a new open source methodology for collecting project-level development finance information and create a database of Chinese official finance to Africa from 2000-2011. We find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013022094
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Tracking Under-Reported Financial Flows : China's Development Finance and the Aid-Conflict Nexus Revisited
Strange, Austin; Parks, Bradley; Tierney, Michael J.; … - 2018
China’s development finance is sizable but reliable information is scarce. To address critical information gaps, we introduce a new open source methodology for collecting project-level development finance information and create a database of Chinese official finance to Africa from 2000-2011....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014149526
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Political Stability and Economic Development in the New Nation of South Sudan
Mohamed, Issam A.W; Akongdit, Addis - 2012
The newly born, one year old State of Southern Sudan faces multiple challenges, economic, administrative, ethnic and most of all, civil conflicts with its previous mother country, Sudan. Building a state is an arduous mission and building a nation comprised of many ethnicities is the most...
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