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This paper analyzes factors that determine recent economic growth in the low-income countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States.2 The main findings are as follows: (1) productivity gains in export-oriented sectors and expansion of exports may have become the main sources of growth in...
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In this paper, we study the interdependent relationship between three types of investments: foreign direct investments …, central government investments, and all other investments, and their role in the gross domestic product dynamics in the … that, in the long run, there is only one relationship in which all other investments are dependent variables. In it, the …
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In this paper, we study the interdependent relationship between three types of investments: foreign direct investments …, central government investments, and all other investments, and their role in the gross domestic product dynamics in the … that, in the long run, there is only one relationship in which all other investments are dependent variables. In it, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011984746
structural and cohesion funds, removed the trading barriers, increases foreign investments, reduced unemployment, increased labor …
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Human capital is increasingly believed to play an important role in the growth process, however, adequately measuring its stock remains controversial. This paper identifies three general approaches to human capital measurement; cost-based, income-based and education-based, and presents a...
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In this paper, we analyse the relationship between international trade and economic growth in an unbalanced panel of 20 European countries in a long-term perspective, since the mid-19th century to present days, differentiating between the periods before and after the start of the Second World...
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We analyse in this paper the relationship between international trade and economic growth from the point of view of one of the most traditional hypotheses within this field, namely, the export-led growth hypothesis, for the case of Spain in a long-term perspective of almost 170 years. Exports...
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Foreign currency debt is widely believed to increase risks of financial crisis, especially after being implicated as a cause of the East Asian crisis in the late 1990s. In this paper, we study the effects of foreign currency debt on currency and debt crises and its indirect effects on short-term...
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This paper argues that economic competition and political contestability are two key determinants of the successful development of the Swiss economy in the nineteenth and twentieth century. We describe how Switzerland evolved from a relatively poor country with no natural resources and net...
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According to the Washington Consensus, developing countries’ growth would benefit from reductions in barriers to trade. However, the empirical basis for judging trade reforms is weak. Econometrics are mostly ad hoc; results are typically not judged against models; policies are poorly measured;...
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