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Corruption, Investment and Economic Growth in Developing Countries : A Panel Smooth Transition Regression Approach
2019
This article studies from a sample of 110 countries between 2006 and 2016, the relationship between Corruption, investment and growth. Using the Panel Smooth Transition Regression (PSTR), we show that there is a non-linearity between growth and investment versus corruption, characterized by a...
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Investing in Electricity, Growth, and Debt Sustainability : The Case of Lesotho
Andreolli, Michele - 2016
This paper analyses a large public investment in a construction of a hydropower plant in Lesotho and its implications on the growth and debt sustainability. The paper employs an open economy dynamic general equilibrium model to assess the benefits of a large public investment through...
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Tracking Under-Reported Financial Flows : China's Development Finance and the Aid-Conflict Nexus Revisited
Strange, Austin - 2015
China's provision of development finance to other countries is sizable but reliable information is scarce. We introduce a new open source methodology for collecting project-level development finance information and create a database of Chinese official finance to Africa from 2000-2011. We find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013022094
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Tracking Under-Reported Financial Flows : China's Development Finance and the Aid-Conflict Nexus Revisited
Strange, Austin; Parks, Bradley; Tierney, Michael J.; … - 2018
China’s development finance is sizable but reliable information is scarce. To address critical information gaps, we introduce a new open source methodology for collecting project-level development finance information and create a database of Chinese official finance to Africa from 2000-2011....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014149526
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Political Stability and Economic Development in the New Nation of South Sudan
Mohamed, Issam A.W; Akongdit, Addis - 2012
, legal and civil structures and good governance. All these are determined by available economic resources that are currently … necessity to be run by good governance that combines national consensus. Swot analysis outlines the principle factors for … economic development and good governance. Conclusions are reached however, with an emphasis that external help is inevitable …
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Chapter 63 Development Aid and Agriculture
Herdt, Robert W. - In: Handbook of agricultural economics : volume 4, (pp. 3253-3304). 2010
This chapter is motivated by the question of whether development assistance directed at agriculture (agricultural aid) is effective. It argues that development assistance is continually changing as the ascendant visions of strong global leaders interact with theories of economic growth and...
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Globalization, Transparency and Economic Growth: The Vulnerability of Chinese Firms to Macroeconomic Shocks
Oxelheim, Lars - 2008
The process of globalization encompasses economic and financial integration. Abolition of capital controls and dismantling of barriers of different kinds are important ingredients of the process that will entirely change the exposure of previously sheltered companies to shocks on the global...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320377
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Globalization, transparency and economic growth : the vulnerability of Chinese firms to macroeconomic shocks
Oxelheim, Lars (contributor) - 2008
The process of globalization encompasses economic and financial integration. The abolition of capital controls and the dismantling of barriers of different kinds will expose previously sheltered companies to shocks on the global economic arena. Policy-makers in already globalized countries have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003757004
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Introduction to ‘Transition Economies after the Crisis of 2008 : Actors and Policies’
Myant, Martin - 2013
The economic crisis of 2008, starting from the crisis in banking in the USA in 2008, affected economic and political development in varied ways around the world. This special issue covers the impact and policy responses in the former state socialist countries of central and eastern Europe and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013083942
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Does Profitability Really Matter? Marginality, Volatility & $ Trillion Question
Muthusamy, Senthil Kumar - 2020
Firm Profitability - Does it really matter for shareholder return or ROE (return on equity)? Does this question sound oxymoron and antithetic? Not really. On the contrary, evidence has surfaced that Returns on equity - based on the shareholders' equity accounted in the balance sheet - is not...
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