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Real Convergence of Western Balkan Countries to European Union in view of Macroeconomic Policy Mix

Krstevska, Aneta - In: Journal of Central Banking Theory and Practice 7 (2018) 2, pp. 187-202

Western Balkan (WB) countries have a clear orientation towards the European Union (EU), all of them currently being candidate or potential candidate countries. Moreover, the EU is an important trading partner of the WB economies, therefore, there is a recognizable need for convergence of this...

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Europa 2020 Strategy target in R&D sector: Visegrad group countries

Bockova, Nina; Meluzin, Tomas; Skapa, Stanislav - 2017

This contribution analyses the relationship between Research and Development funding's and economic growth within the Visegrad Group during the period 2005-2014. The studied geographical area is regions NUTS 2 of the Visegrad Group. The indicators considered in this contribution are GDP per...

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Prospects for Further (South) Eastern EU Enlargement: Form Divergence to Convergence?

Gligorov, Vladimir; Holzner, Mario; Landesmann, Michael - 2003

This paper looks at the experience of South East Europe which – for the purposes of this paper – includes the former states of Yugoslavia except for Slovenia (i.e. Croatia, Serbia-Montenegro, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Macedonia), Albania, and the two EU candidate countries, Bulgaria and...

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Measuring Inequality using Geospatial Data

Galimberti, Jaqueson; Pichler, Stefan; Pleninger, Regina - 2020

The main challenge in studying economic inequality is limited data availability, which is particularly problematic in developing countries. We construct a measure of economic inequality for 234 countries and territories from 1992 to 2013 using satellite data on nighttime light emissions as well...

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Digitalisation, institutions and governance, and diffusion: Mechanisms and evidence

Baccianti, Claudio; Labhard, Vincent; Lehtimäki, Jonne - 2022

Digitalisation can be described as a sequence of technology and supply shocks which affect the economy through employment and labour markets, productivity and output, and competition and market structure. This paper focuses on how digitalisation - the process of diffusion of digital technologies...

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Moving the center: Adapting the toolbox of growth model research to emerging capitalist economies

Mertens, Daniel; Nölke, Andreas; May, Christian; … - 2022

accumulation strategies. Subsequently, we employ case vignettes from Brazil, China, India and Indonesia to highlight ECE …

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Labor surplus revisited

Ranis, Gustav - 2012

Unskilled labor is the abundant resource in many developing countries, especially at an early stage of their development. Yet, even as at given technologies labor markets have not cleared, neo-classical economists have rejected the notion of an institutional or bargaining wage not based on...

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Economic Growth and Human Development

Ramirez, Alejandro; Ranis, Gustav; Stewart, Frances - 1997

This paper explores the links between economic growth and human development, identifying two chains, one from economic growth to human development, the other, from human development to economic growth. The importance of various links in each chain are explored empirically with the help of...

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Terms of Trade, Foreign Direct Investment, and Development: A Case of Intra-Asian "Kicking Away the Ladder"?

Wacker, Konstantin M.; Großkurth, Philipp; Lakemann, Tabea - 2014

) generally have a positive impact on developing countries’ terms of trade except in the case of South Asia? After arguing that … concerning the relationship of FDI and terms of trade in the development context. From here, we argue that South and East Asia … horizontally motivated FDI has helped East Asia achieve some market power in certain higher-value product niches, late-coming South …

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The Convergent Evolution of Romania's Gross Domestic Product in Relation to the Average Macro-Economic Result of the European Union Countries

Necula, Raluca; Stoian, Mirela; Drăghici, Manea - In: Amfiteatru Economic Journal 18 (2016) 43, pp. 575-591

Romania's economic growth is a target that can be achieved only within the accordance of all the economic sectors with the Europe 2020 Strategy. As provided in the Convergence Programme 2014-2020, this objective entails a series of steps that Romania must rigorously follow in order to be able to...

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