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Economic growth, income distribution and poverty : time-series and cross-country evidence from the CFA-zone countries of sub-Saharan Africa
Bleaney, Michael F.; Nishiyama, Akira - 2004
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011513980
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Foreign capital, inflation, sterilization, crowding-out and growth : some illustrative models
Singh, Nirvikar; Srinivasan, Thirukodikaval N. - 2004
This paper discusses some puzzles in the contemporary macroeconomic scene in India, from the perspective of public finance and economic development. These include a fiscal deficit higher than it was during the 1991 crisis, but without a large current account deficit or rise in inflation or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011520530
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Nonlinearity between the Shadow Economy and Level of Development
Frank Wu, Dong - 2019
This paper is the first attempt to directly explore the long-run nonlinear relationship between theshadow economy and level of development. Using a dataset of 158 countries over the period from1996 to 2015, our results reveal a robust U-shaped relationship between the shadow economy sizeand GDP...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012889145
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Institutions and FDI : evidence from developed and developing countries
Sabir, Samina; Rafique, Anum; Abbas, Kamran - In: Financial innovation : FIN 5 (2019) 8, pp. 1-20
This study investigates the impact of institutional quality on Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) inflows using panel data for low, lower-middle, upper-middle and high-income countries for the sample period of 1996-2016 using the system Generalized Method of Moments (GMM). The empirical results...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011972651
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What really drives economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa? : evidence from the lasso regularization and inferential techniques
Ofori, Isaac Kwesi; Obeng, Camara Kwasi; Asongu, Simplice - 2022
The question of what really drives economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has been debated for many decades now …. However, there is still a lack of clarity on variables crucial for driving growth as prior contributions have been executed at … the backdrop of preferential selection of covariates in the midst several of potential drivers of economic growth. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013380603
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EU membership and economic growth : empirical evidence for the CEE countries
Rapacki, Ryszard; Prochniak, Mariusz - In: European journal of comparative economics 16 (2019) 1, pp. 3-40
economic growth of eleven Central and Eastern European (CEE or EU11) countries, including their real convergence to the … selected macroeconomic variables related to the EU enlargement on economic growth of the CEE countries is examined with the use … direct investment) turned out to be important drivers of GDP growth. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012259712
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Financial development - economic growth nexus in Pakistan : new evidence from the Markov switching model
Rahman, Abdul; Khan, Muhammad Arshad; Charfeddine, Lanouar - In: Cogent economics & finance 8 (2020) 1, pp. 1-15
This paper investigates the impact of financial development on economic growth in Pakistan using the Markov Switching … finance spurs growth. The result reveals that financial development augments economic growth in both high and low economic … growth regimes in Pakistan. However, the impact of financial development on economic growth is found to be relatively higher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012219668
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Can oil-led growth and structural change go hand in hand in Ghana? : a multi-sector intertemporal general equilibrium assessment
Breisinger, Clemens; Diao, Xinshen; Wiebelt, Manfred - 2012
demonstrate how oil wealth may go hand in hand with structural change in the future. -- Transformation ; growth ; structural …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009570498
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The role of value added across economic sectors in modulating the effects of FDI on TFP and economic growth dynamics
Asongu, Simplice; Meniago, Christelle; Salahodjaev, Raufhon - 2021
economic growth dynamics, and (ii) the relevance of value added from three economic sectors in modulating the established … effect of FDI on TFP and economic growth dynamics. The geographical and temporal scopes are respectively 25 Sub … Method of Moments. The following main findings are established. First, FDI has a positive effect on GDP growth, GDP per …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012798944
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The role of value added across economic sectors in modulating the effects of FDI on TFP and economic growth dynamics
Asongu, Simplice; Meniago, Christelle; Salahodjaev, Raufhon - 2021
economic growth dynamics, and (ii) the relevance of value added from three economic sectors in modulating the established … effect of FDI on TFP and economic growth dynamics. The geographical and temporal scopes are respectively 25 Sub … Method of Moments. The following main findings are established. First, FDI has a positive effect on GDP growth, GDP per …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013311097