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Aid and growth regressions

Hansen, Henrik; Tarp, Finn - 2000

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Trade liberalisation and poverty: The empirical evidence

Winters, L. Alan; McCulloch, Neil; McKay, Andrew - 2002

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Public Education and Growth in Developing Countries

Schuppert, Christiane; Wirz, Nadja - 2008

Human capital plays a key role in fostering technology adoption, the major source of economic growth in developing countries. Consequently, enhancing the level of human capital should be a matter of public concern. The present paper studies public education incentives in an environment in which...

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Growth, inequality, and poverty reduction in developing countries: Recent global evidence

Fosu, Augustin Kwasi - 2011

The study presents recent global evidence on the transformation of economic growth to poverty reduction in developing countries, with emphasis on the role of income inequality. The focus is on the period since the early/mid-1990s when growth in these countries as a group has been relatively...

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In search for a long-run relationship between aid and growth: Pitfalls and findings

Nowak-Lehmann D., Felicitas; Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada - 2009

In this paper we investigate the relationship between per capita income and foreign aid for a panel of 131 (alternatively 52) recipient countries over the period 1960 to 2006 by employing annual data and 5-year averages. Reliance on standard panel estimation techniques, such as 2-ways FE...

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The impact of gender inequality in education and employment on economic growth in developing Countries: Updates and extensions

Klasen, Stephan; Lamanna, Francesca - 2008

Using cross-country and panel regressions, we investigate to what extent gender gaps in education and employment (proxied using gender gaps in labor force participation) reduce economic growth. Using most recent data and investigating a long time period (1960-2000), we update the results of...

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A further examination of the export-led growth hypothesis

Herzer, Dierk - 2010

This paper challenges the common view that exports generally contribute more to GDP growth than a mere change in export volume, as the export-led growth hypothesis predicts. Applying heterogeneous panel cointegration techniques to a production function model with non-export GDP as the dependent...

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Determinants of the growth semi-elasticity of poverty reduction

Klasen, Stephan; Misselhorn, Mark - 2008

In this paper we examine the mathematical relationship between growth and distributional change on absolute (i.e. percentage point) changes in FGT poverty measures assuming a log-normal income distribution, which we argue to be a conceptually superior and more policy-relevant measure than the...

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(Wie) Führt Außenhandel zu Wirtschaftswachstum?

Eck, Katharina - 2010

Diese Arbeit geht der Frage nach, wie Außenhandel zu Wirtschaftswachstum führen kann. Da anhaltendes … Wirtschaftswachstum nur durch technischen Fortschritt möglich ist, muss Außenhandel deshalb auf die Rate des technischen Fortschritts … wirken um Wirtschaftswachstum beeinflussen zu können. Technischer Fortschritt selbst entsteht hauptsächlich durch die …

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Entrepreneurship in advanced and developing countries: A microeconomic perspective

Vivarelli, Marco - 2012

The purpose of this paper is to provide a contribution to the identification of the role of entrepreneurship in economic growth by mapping out: 1) alternative ways of looking at entrepreneurship, distinguishing 'creative destruction' from simple 'turbulence'; 2) the different microeconomic...

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