initiation of growth processes in urban regions and even in some rural ones. This makes cluster policy an interesting tool for …

regulations on labour markets will have significant impacts on economic growth, especially through effects on employment and … economic growth in Africa. In particular, this study examines the impact of labour market flexibility (regulations) on economic … growth (real GDP per capita growth) relying on the Driscoll-Kraay fixed-effects estimator and the two-step system generalized …

The SADC is attempting to achieve development and economic growth. This paper investigates the relationship between … economic freedom – in aggregate and on an individual component basis – on economic growth in the SADC. The annual data for … per capita are positively related and freedom Granger-causes growth. All five individual components are highly significant …

This paper empirically examines the causality between crime rates and economic growth using state level data in India … crime and economic growth. Higher crimes may reduce level of per capita income and its growth rate. Controlling intentional … annual growth in per capita income could have been higher by 1.57 and 1.2 percentage points, respectively. The average annual …

The perception of special interest groups as a serious threat to economic growth has strengthened over the years … implicit suggestion by some of the theoretical works that the extent and the intensity of the growth effects of special …-shaped long-run effects on growth, and that it takes time (about 8 years) for the full effects to become evident. The results …

empirical relationship between corruption and economic growth. Empirical literature has shown a linear relationship between … corruption and economic growth but hasn’t dif ferentiated between growthenhancing and growth-reducing levels of corruption. An … analysis based on the generalized method of moments estimation shows that a decrease in corruption raises the economic growth …

Tourism is one of the major determinants of global economic growth, creating jobs within the sector, and Africa is no … tourism, economic growth, and carbon emissions in 47 Sub-Saharan African countries from 2005 to 2020. While economic growth …

-term growth. Once unobserved country-specific effects and other sources of endogeneity are accounted for, political institutions … affect growth through their interaction with crises. The results suggest that only countries with strong democracies, high … opportunities to enhance long-term output per capita and productivity growth. …

In this paper, we revisit the relationship between economic growth and exchange rate misalignments, especially … on growth depends on institutional quality as suggested in previous literature. First, we separate countries into groups … according to their institutional quality using the cluster analysis. Then, we estimate the relationship between growth and …