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We discuss the sustainability of Chinese high growth relative to growth experience elsewhere, and specifically Soviet … sustainability of high Chinese growth. … Russia in the 1950s to the 1960s by asking if the aggregate technology can eventually similarly constrain high growth …
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Production technology is the main driving force of economic growth while upgraded technology reduces carbon emission …
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since 1994, as evidenced by trends in growth and investment. Compared with an international peer group, the initial … conditions for a dramatic growth recovery were inauspicious in 1994. Growth accounting methods are applied to distinguish the … relative contributions of capital, labour and total factor productivity (TFP) to the growth revival, employing a broader range …
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The study assesses the how information sharing by means of mobile phones affects banking system efficiency in Africa with particular emphasis on income levels (Middle income versus Low income countries) and legal origins (English Common law versus French Civil law countries). The focus is on 53...
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In this study we investigate the role of information and communication technology (ICT) in conflicts of financial intermediation for financial access. The empirical evidence is based on contemporary (or current values) and non-contemporary (or lagged by a year) quantile regressions in 53 African...
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The study assesses the how information sharing by means of mobile phones affects banking system efficiency in Africa with particular emphasis on income levels (Middle income versus Low income countries) and legal origins (English Common law versus French Civil law countries). The focus is on 53...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013307481
ethnic fractionalization on economic growth across countries using unique time-varying measures. We first replicate the … finding of a weak effect of exogenous diversity on growth and then we show that accounting for how diversity changes over time … latitude), it shows a significant negative impact on economic growth which is robust to different specifications, polarization …
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Unlike in Asia, the manufacturing sector has not (yet) become a driver of structural change in Africa. One common explanation is that the natural resource-focus of many African economies leads to Dutch disease effects. To test this argument for the case of newly found oil in Ghana we develop a...
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flow of economic activities. In this study, we investigated the effects of inflation and inflation uncertainty on growth in … uncertainty on growth from the long-run effects. Also, unlike the previous studies, we examined whether increases in inflation … uncertainty have the same effects on growth as decreases in it. By applying linear and nonlinear specifications to a data set …
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We conduct an extensive robustness analysis of the relationship between trust and growth for a later time period (the … results. We find that the trust-growth relationship is less robust with respect to empirical specification and to countries in … compared with many other growth-regression variables. …
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