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This paper seeks to analyze the factors affecting the growth of enterprises in the Philippines, as measured from the … in 2009, we correlate the observed growth of these firms with reported constraints in the business environment within … 2009, more than a third of these firms expanded their payroll and majority saw growth in real sales. Amidst a sea of …
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.S. employers to estimate the effects of financial access on employment growth. Our methods combine regressions with matching on … constraints impede small business growth prior to loan receipt. We also investigate the variation in estimated employment effects …
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expenditure policy into account as well. Here, public expenses with a high 'quality' are those which improve economic growth and … sustainable development. In the PEGS-project, we studied if and how public expenditure with a positive correlation with growth and …
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The increasing dominance of finance starting in the late 1970s/early 1980s in the US and the UK, and somewhat later in other countries, was associated with two fundamental and structural processes generating the contradictions of this phase of development and finally the financial and economic...
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The security of energy supply is a key geopolitical factor in the relationship between the European Union and the southern neighborhood countries of the Middle East and North Africa region. We study the response of eight Mediterranean economies to exogenous oil supply shocks. We focus on the...
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The relationship between per capita income and a number of pollution indicators has been found to display an inverted U-shaped or downward-sloping pattern. Corruption may affect this relationship in two distinct ways: by raising pollution at given income levels (direct effect) and by reducing...
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Does a country's level of unemployment have an impact on the long-run growth rate? Incorporating unemployment into a … generalised Solow-type growth model yields some answers. In the traditional Solow model, unemployment has no long-run influence on … the growth rate and the level of productivity. The long-run level of productivity is reduced if higher unemployment leads …
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economic growth and public education is evaluated: both have a positive, significant, and substantial effect on …
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