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Privatization in Africa : What Has Happened? What is to Be Done?

Nellis, John - 2008

Sub-Saharan African states urgently need expanded and more dynamic private sectors, more efficient and effective infrastructure/utility provision, and increased investment from both domestic and foreign sources. Privatization is one way to address these problems. But African states have...

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Following the Trend: Tracking GDP when Long-Run Growth is Uncertain

Antolin-Diaz, Juan; Drechsel, Thomas; Petrella, Ivan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

most important driver of changes in GDP growth for both the US and other advanced economies. When applied to real-time data …

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Growth, War, and Pandemics: Europe in the Very Long-run

Prados de la Escosura, Leandro; Rodríguez-Caballero, … - 2020

This paper contributes to the debate on the origins of modern economic growth in Europe from a very long-run perspective using econometric techniques that allow for a long-range dependence approach. Different regimes, defined by endogenously estimated structural shocks, coincided with episodes...

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How does colonial origin matter for economic performance in sub-Saharan Africa?

Agbor, Julius A. - 2011

This paper investigates some of the existing hypotheses regarding the transmission of different colonial legacies to modern day economic growth. The fact that different colonial strategies were pursued by different colonizers in various territories suggests possible ramifications for current...

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How Does Colonial Origin Matter for Economic Performance in sub-Saharan Africa?

Agbor, J.A.; Fedderke, J. W.; Viegi, N. - Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA) - 2010

This paper investigates the channels through which colonial origin affects economic outcomes in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). It focuses on four key channels of transmission namely, human capital, trade openness, market distortion and selection bias. In contrast with previous studies where only...

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How does colonial origin matter for economic performance in sub-Saharan Africa?

Agbor, Julius A. - 2011

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'How Does Colonial Origin Matter for Economic Performance in Sub-Saharan Africa'

Fedderke, Johannes Wolfgang - 2013

This paper carefully investigates some of the existing hypothesis regarding the transmission of different colonial legacies to modern day economic performance in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). It focuses on four key channels of transmission namely, human capital, trade openness, market distortion and...

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An Empirical Study Regarding the Impact of Foreign Direct Investments over the Gross Domestic Product of Central and Eastern Europe Countries

Daniel, Liparã - In: Ovidius University Annals, Economic Sciences Series XI (2011) 1, pp. 1154-1159

products (GDP) of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) countries. Through a regression model we look for a correlation between … for investors who wanted to expand and to grow their businesses. Is there a significant relationship between FDI and GDP …? What is its impact? Does FDI have a direct impact over GDP in CEE countries? …

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GDP and convergence in modern times

Felice, Emanuele - Association Française de Cliométrie - AFC - 2014

In this chapter I discuss historical estimates of GDP at both the national and the regional level, and their … societies, GDP has stronger informative power in those contexts where industry and services, and market exchange, retain the … construct GDP constant price (Laspeyres) indices (the latter issue may be less widely recognized, but it may have a remarkable …

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Newer need not be better: Evaluating the Penn World Tables and the World Development Indicators using nighttime lights

Pinkovskiy, Maxim; Sala-i-Martin, Xavier - 2016

predicting unobserved true income). In particular, we find that the PWT 7.1 chain-based GDP series substantially outperforms the … of their price survey. We conclude that GDP series based on unadjusted domestic growth rates alone predict growth rates …

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