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Public sector bureaucracies and economic growth
Onrubia, Jorge; Pérez, Javier J.; Sánchez Fuentes, A. … - In: Revista de economía mundial : REM ; revista de la … 51 (2019), pp. 121-137
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China in Light of the Performance of Central and East European Economies
Svejnar, Jan - 2021
While China shared many systemic, initial conditions with the transition economies of Central-East Europe (CEE) and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), it had a more agricultural economy and a more stable political-economic system than many CEE and CIS countries. Unlike most of the CEE...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317074
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Inequality and Economic Growth : Data Comparisons and Econometric Tests
Galbraith, James K.; Kum, Hyunsub - 2002
This paper discusses two issues in the relationship between inequality and economic growth: the data and the econometrics. We first review the inequality data set of Deininger and Squire, which, we argue, fails to provide adequate or accurate longitudinal and cross-country coverage. We then...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014114898
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Economic diversification in the GCC : past, present, and future
Callen, Tim; Cherif, Reda; Hasanov, Fuad; Hegazy, Amgad; … - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010483789
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Economic Diversification in the GCC : Past, Present, and Future
Callen, Tim - 2014
Abstract: The economies of the six Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries are heavily reliant on oil. Greater economic diversification would reduce their exposure to volatility and uncertainty in the global oil market, help create jobs in the private sector, increase Productivity and...
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Kenya : selected issues and statistical appendix
Kalinga, ...; McIntyre, Meredith A.; Cheng, Kevin C.; … - 2009
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Are Politicians Really Paid Like Bureaucrats?
Fisman, Raymond J.; Di Tella, Rafael - 2011
widespread assumptions, substantial variation in the wages of politicians, both across states and over time. Gubernatorial wages …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014035948
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When unemployment disappears : Ireland in the 1990s
Walsh, Brendan M. - 2003
This paper examines the behaviour of the Irish labour market during the 1990s. Over the course of the decade the Irish unemployment rate fell from the highest to the lowest in the EU. Over the same period a record number of jobs was created and all the indicators suggest that full employment was...
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When Unemployment Disappears : Ireland in the 1990s
Walsh, Brendan M. - 2021
This paper examines the behaviour of the Irish labour market during the 1990s. Over the course of the decade the Irish unemployment rate fell from the highest to the lowest in the EU. Over the same period a record number of jobs was created and all the indicators suggest that full employment was...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013320082
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Economic Uncertainty and Corruption : Evidence from a Large Cross-Country Data Set
Goel, Rajeev K.; Ram, Rati - 2016
A vast amount of research has considered numerous causes and correlates of corruption. Also, there have been many … and corruption appears scarce. After providing an intuitive and heuristic linkage between general economic uncertainty and … corruption, this article uses a large cross-country data set to augment a fairly standard model with simple proxies for …
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