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Hold your breath: A new index of air quality
Buehn, Andreas; Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza - 2012
Environmental quality and climate change have long attracted attention in policy debates. Recently, air quality has emerged on the policy agenda. We calculate a new index of air quality using CO2 and SO2 emissions per capita as indicators and provide a ranking for 122 countries from 1985 to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294395
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Unlucky or bad? Economic policy and economic growth
Osborne, Evan - 2003
Cross-country growth regressions have in recent years become a major growth industry. The most common purpose of this work has been to investigate the determinants of economic growth. But it is also possible to use the existing growth data to determine the extent to which policy choices help or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332290
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Global earnings inequality, 1970-2015
Hammar, Olle; Waldenström, Daniel - 2017
We estimate trends in global earnings dispersion across occupational groups using a new database covering 66 developed and developing countries between 1970 and 2015. Our main finding is that global earnings inequality has declined, primarily during the 2000s, when the global Gini coefficient...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012013539
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Marginality: Addressing the nexus of poverty, exclusion and ecology
von Braun, Joachim (contributor);  … - 2014
ecological systems. The marginality concept leads to different development policies. While the prevalence of poverty declined by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011959566
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Two views on institutions and development: the grand transition vs the primacy of institutions
Paldam, Martin; Gundlach, Erich - 2007
The Grand Transition (GT) view claims that economic development is causal to institutional development, and that many … institutional changes can be understood as transitions occurring at roughly the same level (zones) of development. The Primacy of … Institutions (PoI) view claims that economic development is a consequence of an exogenous selection of institutions. Our survey of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265602
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What drives biodiversity?: an empirical assessment of the relation between biodiversity and the economy
Freytag, Andreas; Vietze, Christoph; Völkl, Wolfgang - 2009
The environmental discussion is increasingly extended to the question of how to preserve biodiversity. As sensible regulation of biodiversity utilization uses politically set incentive schemes, it is required to discus the monetary value of biodiversity. Consequently, the relation between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266684
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The global entrepreneurship index (GEINDEX)
Ács, Zoltán J.; Szerb, László - 2009
entrepreneurship across countries. We find the relationship between entrepreneurship and economic development to be mildly S-shaped not … illustrating a U-shaped or L-shaped relationship to more complex measures, which are positively related to economic development …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266685
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ICT use in the developing world: an analysis of differences in computer and internet penetration
Chinn, Menzie D.; Fairlie, Robert W. - 2006
, telephone density, legal quality and banking sector development are associated with technology penetration rates. Overall, the … reversion for computer use, particularly in developed economies. Financial development, either measured as bank lending or the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267851
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Two views on institutions and development: The grand transition vs. the primacy of institutions
Paldam, Martin; Gundlach, Erich - 2007
The Grand Transition (GT) view claims that economic development is causal to institutional development, and that many … institutional changes can be understood as transitions occurring at roughly the same level (zones) of development. The Primacy of … Institutions (PoI) view claims that economic development is a consequence of an exogenous selection of institutions. Our survey of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273104
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Out with the sleaze, in with the ease: Insufficient for entrepreneurial development?
Naudé, Wim - 2009
Improved governance and lower start-up costs may not be sufficient for encouraging the type of entrepreneurship that matters for economic growth. Using panel data on 60 countries spanning the period 2003-07 this paper establishes that (i) opportunitymotivated entrepreneurship (as opposed to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273479