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This paper presents a simple general equilibrium model of economic performance through time. The model incorporates four main determinants of economic performance: technology, capital investment, the division of labor and quality of institutions. It demonstrates that growth is not automatic even...
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In this paper we investigate if trade barriers or openness affect economic growth differently in the presence of technological diffusion. A sample of about 70 developing countries is chosen and the impact of import tariffs and SW openness index on economic growth when these countries engage in...
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This paper identifies and analyses some key challenges that OECD and partner economies may face over the coming 50 years if underlying global trends relating to growth, trade, inequality and environmental pressures prevail. For example, global growth is likely to slow and become increasingly...
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Seventy two questionnaires returned by members of the Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals, provided evidence for a negative relationship between the strategic intelligence function’s (SIF) success and a gap between the firm’s environmental turbulence level and its strategic...
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This study analysed the impact of education human capital development on economic growth in Nigeria from 1980 to 2020 … World Development Indicators of the World Bank, were subjected to appropriate descriptive and econometric techniques … human capital development, as measured by secondary school enrolment, and economic growth in Nigeria. Therefore, the study …
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The environmental discussion is increasingly extended to the question of how to preserve biodiversity. As sensible regulation of biodiversity utilization uses politically set incentive schemes, it is required to discus the monetary value of biodiversity. Consequently, the relation between...
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The use of the EFQM model and other business excellence models (BEM?s) has been recognised as a way of improving business processes among organisations. The information gathered through self-assessments using these models show the performance of organisations against several model criteria....
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This paper combines development and growth accounting exercises with economic theory to estimate the relative … importance of total factor productivity and the accumulation of factors of production in the economic development performance of … Latin America. The region's development performance is assessed by contrast with various alternative benchmarks, both …
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-industrial economic conditions. We hypothesize that if these countries are arrayed on a continuum of pre-industrial development such as …
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