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What is the relationship between foreign aid and economic growth? This is probably one of the most famous questions in the foreign aid – economic growth debate. Whether this question has been sufficiently answered remains to be known. Developing nations have been and continue to be known to...
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effect on investment, and a (fairly) small significant negative effect on domestic savings. The aggregate result is thus an … considered, a small positive and statistically significant investment effect is found, together with a small negative effect on … impact on investment …
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The aim of this paper is to analyze the cause and effect relationship between economic growth and savings in advanced economies and in emerging and developing countries2. In this work we used the method based on studies in macroeconomics and international finance as well as econometric methods...
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A large body of evidence suggests that poor countries tend to invest less (have lower PPP - adjusted investment rates …) and to face higher relative prices of investment goods. It has been suggested that this happens either because these … countries have lower TFP in the investment - good producing sectors, or because they are subject to greater investment …
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This study aims to identify public financial indicators involved in the investment projects of GCC countries. The data … variables and two proxies (national and trade accounts) on the investment project development proxy, which is measured by the … results showed that Saudi Arabia and the UAE rank high in both proxies of investment project development. The simple …
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The paper presents a theoretical model to explain how debt overhang is generated in low-income countries and discusses its implications for debt relief. The paper indicates that the extent of debt overhang, and the effectiveness of debt relief, would depend on a recipient country's initial...
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The recent slowdown of the People's Republic of China (PRC) has led to question to what extent the PRC demand of commodities can have an impact on commodity prices. We take into account the fact that commodity prices are characterized by structural breaks, and to this end we make use of novel...
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stock of tangible capital supported by actual past domestic saving, relative to the actual stock of capital. We use the …
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Across the world, a structural growth slowdown is underway: at current trends, the global potential growth rate - the maximum rate at which an economy can grow without igniting inflation - is expected to fall to a three-decade low over the remainder of the 2020s. The slowdown could be even more...
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-differential effects of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and Domestic Investment (DI) among 41 selected African countries from 1970 to 2017 … is significant difference in the growth effects of foreign direct investment and domestic investment while the joint … effects of foreign direct investment and domestic investment on growth of African countries is found to be statistically …
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