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Revisiting domestic savings and economic growth analysis in Ghana
Siaw, Anthony; Enning, Koduah Dawud; Pickson, Robert Becker - In: Theoretical economics letters 7 (2017) 5, pp. 1382-1397
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Financial reform and investment in Africa : an empirical analysis
Baliamoune-Lutz, Mina - In: Back on track : sector-led growth in Africa and …, (pp. 331-343). 2010
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Saving, investment and capital mobility in African countries
Adedeji, Olumuyiwa S.; Thornton, John - In: Journal of African economies 16 (2007) 3, pp. 393-405
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Saving, Investment and Capital Mobility in African Countries
Adedeji, Olumuyiwa - 2010
-Horioka approach to measuring capital mobility. The results suggest three conclusions: savings and investment in panel data are non … savings-retention ratios of 0.73 (FMOLS), 0.45 (DOLS), 0.51 (DOLS with heterogeneity) and 0.39 (DOLS with cross …-sectional dependence effects); and there was a marked drop in the savings-retention ratio from 1970-85 to 1986-2000. The results could be …
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Determinants of National Savings : A Short and Long Run Investigation in Ghana
Kwakwa, Paul - 2014
The study investigated the determinants of national savings by employing the Johansen cointegration technique and error … correction model to examine the short run and long run dynamics of the system using time-series data for Ghana over the 1975 … long run economic relationship among the determinants of national saving in Ghana. The empirical results established that …
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The primacy of institutions reconsidered : the effects of malaria prevalence in the empirics of development
Carstensen, Kai; Gundlach, Erich - 2005 - Revised, August 2005
Some recent empirical studies deny any direct performance effects of measures of geography and conclude that institutions trump all other potential determinants of development. For given effects of institutional quality, our empirical results indicate quantitatively important direct negative...
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Productivity and health : alternative productivity estimates using physical activity
Akogun, Oladele; Dillon, Andrew; Friedman, Jed; … - 2017
This paper investigates an alternative proxy for individual worker productivity in physical work settings: a direct measure of physical activity using an accelerometer. First, the paper compares worker labor outcomes, such as labor supply and daily productivity obtained from firm personnel data,...
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Low malnutrition but high mortality : explaining the puzzle of the Lake Victoria region
Gräb, Johannes; Priebe, Jan - 2010
Comparing DHS data from 235 regions in 29 Sub-Saharan Africa countries, we find that the combination of low levels of malnutrition together with dramatically high rates of mortality, encountered in Kenya's Lake Victoria territory, is unique for Sub-Saharan Africa. This paper explores the causes...
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The primacy of institutions reconsidered : the effects of malaria prevalence in the empirics of development
Gundlach, Erich (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002058901
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The primacy of institutions reconsidered : the effects of malaria prevalence in the empirics of development
Gundlach, Erich - 2004
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002092754