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Democracy vs. dictatorship : comparing the evolution of economic growth under two political regimes

Schiffbauer, Marc; Shen, Ling - In: The economics of transition 18 (2010) 1, pp. 59-90

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The vanishing effect of finance on growth

Gründler, Klaus - 2015

This paper investigates the causes of the "vanishing effect of finance" detected in recent studies. The results highlight that the negative effect of the financial system on growth is mainly driven by advanced economies, whereas finance is still beneficial for income increases in developing...

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The great divergence : a network approach

Lindner, Ines; Strulik, Holger - 2015

knowledge throughout the world explains a period of increasing world inequality after the take-off of the forerunners of the … industrial revolution, followed by decreasing relative inequality. Knowledge diffusion through a Small World network explains the … individual countries in the course of world development. …

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Nature, power, and growth

Thorvaldur Gylfason - 2001

This essay reviews the relationship between natural-resource abundance and economic growth around the world, and …

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How democracy could foster economic growth : the last 200 years

Leonard, Carol Scott; Shestakov, Daniel; Janovskij, K. - 2014

In this paper we explore current understandings of the influence of political rights, among historical legacies, on economic development. We construct variables for selected political regimes for 1811-2010. We find significant association between individual rights and economic growth. We argue...

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Natural resources and economic growth : what is the connection?

Thorvaldur Gylfason - 2001

This paper reviews the relationship between natural resources and economic growth, and stresses how natural capital tends to crowd out foreign capital, social capital, human capital, andphysical capital, thereby impeding economic growth across countries and presumably also over time....

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