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The objective of this article is to approach the concepts of growth and economic development in order to highlight the … increasing the added value of goods and services obtained within the sectors of a country's economy. The economic development … quality living conditions. Also, economic development can create opportunities in the field of employment and environmental …
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findings confirm the positive influence of research-development funding and of fiscal freedom on intellectual property rights …
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The new growth literature, using both endogenous growth and neoclassical models, has generated strong claims for the effect of national policies on economic growth. Empirical work on policies and growth has tended to confirm these claims. This paper casts doubt on this claim for strong effects...
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The emergence of financial technology (Fintech) has greatly impacted the financial landscape in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) in recent years. The impact on bank funding and economic growth in the region cannot be ignored. This paper examines the extent to which Fintech has affected bank funding and...
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In an influential paper Mankiw, Romer, and Weil (1992) argue that the evidence on the international disparity in per-capita income levels and growth rates is consistent with a standard Solow model, once it has been augmented to include human capital as an accumulable factor. In a study on...
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Some recent papers by Dell et al. (2009) and Dell et al. (2012) (DJO) relating weather and economic outcomes, have delivered meaningful messages with clear implications to the effects of a changing climate. In a nutshell, the authors claim that a 1êC increase in global average temperatures...
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A renewed interest in explaining growth in the Caribbean countries is motivated by the somewhat slow but uneven performance in the past decade: per capita GDP gaps in Caribbean countries have widened in relation to the United States, whereas standard theories would predict convergence. This...
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development. It is only relatively recently that the discussion has gradually focused on the links between different dimensions of …
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within which official development assistance must operate and evolve if it is to remain useful. …
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findings confirm the positive influence of research-development funding and of fiscal freedom on intellectual property rights …
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