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This report revisits the growth and convergence performance of the 11 EU member states in Central, East and Southeast … growth. The findings show that convergence has significantly slowed since the global financial crisis, with value added …
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mechanism of per capita income convergence among countries. This paper analyzes the per capita income convergence implications … to the effect of FDI on growth is ambiguous. By applying the approach of Ben-David (1996), which focuses on convergence … among countries grouped with respect to their mutual trade, this paper presents evidence that per capita income convergence …
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the successful convergence process of those countries, not least thanks to their integration into European and global …; promotion of regional cooperation in areas such as withholding tax, convergence of rules on accounting and stock exchanges in … activities; education and training programs for sectors where wage convergence has made most progress, including promotion of …
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This study investigates the role of India's economy in explaining the observed growth in South Asia, taking into consideration other sources of growth endogenous to the countries in the region. Since a review of key variables indicates that India's bilateral trade and financial linkages with...
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Countries pass through different stages of structural transformation. In the early stage of development, economic activity is dominated by agriculture and mining. As a country develops, firms adopt new technology and move toward industrialization and faster economic growth. Eventually, the...
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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 analysis of China's impacts on the 44 SSA countries reveals that: (i) after joining the WTO in 2001, China has started to impact significantly on SSA growth: one-percent increase in China's GDP per capita leads to 0.02 percent increase on the SSA's GDP per capita; (ii) oil and...
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This Economic Insight looks at commonly-used measures that are employed to compare the relative economic performance of Canada and the United States. It is based on research undertaken at Statistics Canada aimed at improving information about how and why Canadian and U.S. economic progress differs
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This study unites two streams of research by simultaneously focusing on the impact of financial globalisation on financial development and pre- and post-crisis dynamics of the investigated relationship. The empirical evidence is based on 53 African countries for the period 2004-2011 and...
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