Showing 41 - 50 of 185,555
capital. The marginal product of capital is measured as the ratio of the long-run growth of GDP to a country’s investment … most important variables. The data also suggest constant returns to capital, so investment matters for long-run growth. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010992348
investment. Stepping up structural reforms will also be necessary if double-digit growth rates are to be achievable over the … improving in key sectors, partly thanks to greater private investment, bottlenecks endure and efforts to intensify competition … and ensure continued strong investment are required. Labour market reforms are also required to promote job creation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009191040
Sub-Saharan Africa as elsewhere, a country’s attractiveness as a destination for investment and its competitive advantage …. Finally, through regression analysis, we show that the Fama-French multifactor model does not explain investment returns in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014179526
for utilities andtelecoms.The study focuses on Foreign Direct investment (FDI) flows impact on selectsectoral growth in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013219825
consequence of sustained low multi-factor productivity growth within industries, as well as weak investment. Economic geography is …, removing barriers to fixed capital investment (including taxation), accessing benefits from agglomeration by improving urban … planning and infrastructure provision, enhancing competition and increasing investment in innovation and intangibles. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011732737
general equilibrium model of investment in skills and occupational choice. Countries differ in productivity level in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012842771
funds are withdrawn in the short term). This study introduces a new perspective on the role of corruption in investment … growth and provides quantitative estimates of the impact of corruption on the investment inflows. Motivated by these issues …, the main objective of this article is to empirically reexamine the effects of corruption on foreign direct investment (FDI …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012010603
The present paper assesses the interactions between innovation and economic institutions within the context of the inequality-growth nexus. By carrying out fixed effects estimations on a cross-country panel, we find that both institutional quality and innovations improve economic growth at the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014480456
The neoclassical growth model predicts convergence of productivity or per capita output levels across regions. If participation in the labor force is constant, convergence of per capita income is implied. We investigate this hypothesis for the Iranian economy using data on demand deposits as a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264981
We review some patterns of Total Factor Productivity (TFP) growth in the Mexican economy during the period 1991-2011 using the KLEMS data set published by INEGI in 2013. The data shows a strong positive correlation between TFP and output growth. As a result, tests were performed in order to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011445097