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Backwardness advantage and economic growth in the information age : a cross-country empirical study

Vu, Khuong; Asongu, Simplice - 2020

derives theoretical grounds from the existing economic models to support the hypothesis that the internet, inter alia, enables … evidence to show that the growth landscape has indeed shifted decisively in favor of developing countries in the Internet Age … gains from internet adoption in comparison to the average advanced country. The paper discusses policy implications from the …

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Does Public Investment Enhance Labor Productivity Growth in Argentina? A Cointegration Analysis

Ramirez, Miguel D. - 2009

This paper addresses the important question of whether public investment spending on economic infrastructure enhances economic growth and labor productivity in Argentina. Following the lead of the endogenous growth literature, it presents a simple modified production function that explicitly...

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Private Credit Development and Economic Growth In Transition Economies

Bakardzhieva, Damyana - 2009

This research compares the links between the economic growth and the development of banking credit for the private sector in three transition economies. The empirical results confirm the choice of a case-by-case analytical and time series econometrical approach. Each country has its own...

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The Economic Impact of Capital-Skill Complementarities in German and US Industries Productivity Growth and the New Economy

Strobel, Thomas - 2010

US labor productivity in ICT-skill intensive industries experienced tremendousincreases in post-1995 trend growth compared to Germany, while other (non-ICT-skillintensive) industries showed similar growth trends in both countries. Examining thesource of industry productivity growth in German...

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Total factor productivity and the role of entrepreneurship

Erken, Hugo; Donselaar, Piet; Thurik, Adriaan R. - 2009 - Current version: May 2009

Total factor productivity of twenty OECD countries for a recent period (1971-2002) is explained using six different models based on the established literature. Traditionally, entrepreneurship is not dealt with in these models. In the present paper it is shown that – when this variable is added...

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Drivers of growth in fast emerging economies : a dynamic instrumental quantile approach

Asongu, Simplice A. - 2015

This study complements the scarce literature on growth determinants in fast emerging economies of the BRICS and MINT by assessing the determinants throughout the conditional distributions of the growth rate and real GDP output for the period 2001-2011. An instrumenal variable (IV) quantile...

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The East African Community : Prospects for Sustained Growth

McAuliffe, Catherine - 2012

The East African Community (EAC) has been among the fastest growing regions in sub-Saharan Africa in the past decade or so. Nonetheless, the recent growth path will not be enough to achieve middle-income status and substantial poverty reduction by the end of the decade-the ambition of most...

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Long-Run Growth and Demographic Prospects in Advanced Economies

Nuño, Galo - 2012

This paper analyses the long-run growth rates of advanced economies, based on demographic factors. To this end, growth is broken down into two components: growth in productivity (GDP per working-age person) and the projected rate of growth of the working-age population. Productivity is assumed...

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Breaking the Curse of Sisyphus : An Empirical Analysis of Post-Conflict Economic Transitions

Cevik, Serhan - 2013

This paper provides a broad empirical analysis of the determinants of post-conflict economic transitions across the world during the period 1960-2010, using a dynamic panel estimation approach based on the system-generalized method of moments. In addition to an array of demographic, economic,...

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Trade Openness and Growth : Is There Any Link?

Sarkar, Prabirjit - 2007

The present study examines the relationship between openness (trade-GDP ratio) and growth. Our cross-country and panel regression analysis of World Bank data for 51 less-developed countries (LDCs) during shows that for only 11 rich and highly trade-dependent LDCs a higher real growth is...

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