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How fast are the tourism countries growing? : the cross-country evidence
Brau, Rinaldo; Lanza, Alessandro; Pigliaru, Francesco - 2003
Specializing in tourism is an option available to a number of less developed countries and regions. But is it a good … option? To answer this question, we have compared the relative growth performance of 14 tourism countries within a sample of … that the tourism countries grow significantly faster than all the other sub-groups considered in our analysis (OECD, Oil …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011592920
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How Fast are the Tourism Countries Growing? The cross-country evidence
Brau, Rinaldo; Lanza, Alessandro; Pigliaru, Francesco - 2003
Specializing in tourism is an option available to a number of less developed countries and regions. But is it a good … option? To answer this question, we have compared the relative growth performance of 14 "tourism countries" within a sample … documented that the tourism countries grow significantly faster than all the other sub-groups considered in our analysis (OECD …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011325125
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How fast are the tourism countries growing? : The cross-country evidence
Brau, Rinaldo; Lanza, Alessandro; Pigliaru, Francesco - 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001843545
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Growth in a circular economy
Compagnoni, Marco; Stadler, Manfred - 2021
We present a model of natural resources and growth that stresses the influence of an incomplete circularity of exhaustible natural resources. In particular, we analyze the recycling process and the material balance principle, two fundamental aspects of a circular economy. When market failures...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012548169
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Transitional Dynamics Towards Sustainability : Reconsidering the Ekc Hypothesis
Bella, Giovanni - 2007
The Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis is one of the most debated economic issues. Although its fashinating appeal for any policy maker, neither theoretical nor certain empirical evidence has been found to clean up all doubt. The aim of this paper is to present an economy where...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012731843
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Country Sustainable Development and Economic Growth : The International Evidence
Wang, Jiazhen - 2020
This study documents a significant and positive impact of country-level ESG improvement on economic growth using a comprehensive sample across 109 countries. The economic benefits of country-level ESG improvement are robust after alleviating endogeneity concerns using instrumental variable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012849911
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Towards inclusive green growth in Africa : critical energy efficiency synergies and governance thresholds
Ofori, Isaac Kwesi; Gbolonyo, Emmanuel; Ojong, Nathanael - 2022
This study contributes to the scholarly literature on the drive towards sustainable development in light of the UN's Agenda 2030 and the African Union's Agenda 2063 by examining pathways through which energy efficiency (EE) promotes inclusive green growth (IGG) in Africa. Our contribution is...
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Measuring Genuine Progress : An Example from the UN Millennium Development Goals Project
Fisher, William P. - 2021
quality, reduce data volume with no loss of information, estimate linear units of comparison with known uncertainties, express …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013211173
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The Scientific Revolution and Its Role in the Transition to Sustained Economic Growth
Lehmann-Hasemeyer, Sibylle; Prettner, Klaus; … - 2021
We analyze the role of the Scientific Revolution in the takeoff to sustained economic growth. Basic scientific knowledge is a necessary input in the production of applied knowledge, which, in turn, fuels productivity growth and leads to rising incomes. Subsequently, rising incomes instigate a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013230705
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Natural resources : curse or blessing?
Ploeg, Frederick van der - 2010
Are natural resources a "curse" or a "blessing"? The empirical evidence suggests either outcome is possible. The paper surveys a variety of hypotheses and supporting evidence for why some countries benefit and others lose from the presence of natural resources. These include that a resource...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003986863