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institutional reforms have differential growth effects in monarchies and republics. A set of Barrotype regressions show that there … are no significant growth differences between the two regime types and that the effects of incremental reforms do not …
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economic development. This paper takes a new approach toprovide an answer by using micro-data based on surveys of revolutionary … fixed effects, more freedom and economic growth bothreduce revolutionary support. Losing one level of freedom, equivalent to … requires adding 14 percentage points onto the GDP growth rate. BeingMuslim in a free country has no effect on the probability …
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Macroeconomic data on 45 countries are combined with microeconomic data on 4 case-study countries to reveal signifi cant differences in the levels of education attained under the different colonial powers in Africa during the colonial period. In 1960, former British colonies exhibited higher...
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Macroeconomic data on 45 countries are combined with microeconomic data on 4 case-study countries to reveal significant differences in the levels of education attained under the different colonial powers in Africa during the colonial period. In 1960, former British colonies exhibited higher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005416756
positively aected Latin American economic growth in this period, while the determinants traditionally put forward in the … empirical growth literature, such as technical change and openness, did not. Finally, the positive correlation between the …
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positively affected Latin American economic growth in this period, while the determinants traditionally put forward in the … empirical growth literature, such as technical change and openness, did not. Finally, the positive correlation between the …
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This paper presents a growth model in which property rights are insecure and costly to enforce. Losses of property … demonstrates that government expenditures that enforce property rights raise per capita income growth. …
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Trends in Globalization’ website (http://ablog.typepad.com/), the paper analyzes growth in four types of country typified by … the EU, the USA, India, and China. The fastest growth has been registered in China, which has followed a policy of … expansionary money with strong banking controls, combined with an investment-led stimulus. Strong growth has also however been …
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development addressing three fundamental structural problems: (1) In what technologies should a modernising, developmental … strategy focus? (2) What is the relation between economic and human development and how can the latter be assured by the course … reduce the consumption of resources, with all the attendant risks that beset modern development strategies including …
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