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ICT Equipment Investment and Growth in Low- and Lower-Middle-Income Countries

Haacker, Markus - 2010

While production of ICT equipment plays a subordinate role for economic growth in most of these countries, they do benefit from capital deepening arising from falling prices of ICT equipment. Adapting established growth accounting approaches to the data environment of low-income countries, we...

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India : Economic Reform and Growth

Hemming, Richard - 1995

-term growth trends for output, investment, and macroeconomic condition; education, labor employment, and poverty; growth … reforms; the impact on unemployment and poverty; the behavior of private investment; fiscal adjustment and reform; recent … for investment and growth; trade reform; the investment regime; public enterprise reform; and financial market reform …

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Cambodia : Selected Issues

International Monetary Fund - 2000

benefits of a high degree of dollarization are briefly discussed. Export performance and trade policy are also reviewed …. Maintaining export growth will depend on maintaining Cambodia's commitment to an open trade and exchange system …

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Public Debt and Growth

Woo, Jaejoon - 2010

This paper explores the impact of high public debt on long-run economic growth. The analysis, based on a panel of advanced and emerging economies over almost four decades, takes into account a broad range of determinants of growth as well as various estimation issues including reverse causality...

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Short-Versus Long-Term Credit and Economic Performance : Evidence from the WAEMU

Gbenyo, Kodzo - 2010

This paper studies the link between financial development and economic growth in the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU). Using panel data for WAEMU countries over the period 1995-2006, the results suggest that while financial development does support growth in the region, long-term...

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Estimating the Inflation-Growth Nexus : A Smooth Transition Model

Espinoza, Raphael A. - 2010

Motivated by the global inflation episode of 2007-08 and concern that high levels of inflation could undermine growth, this paper uses a panel of 165 countries and data for 1960-2007 to revisit the nexus between inflation and growth. We use a smooth transition model to investigate the speed at...

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Potential Growth of Australia and New Zealand in the Aftermath of the Global Crisis

Sun, Yan - 2010

Using a production function method, this paper assesses the impact of the global crisis on the potential growth of Australia and New Zealand. The two countries have not been hit hard by the global crisis, but have large net external liabilities. The paper finds that the main negative impact of...

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China's Economic Growth : International Spillovers

Vamvakidis, Athanasios - 2010

This paper presents some facts on China’s role in the world economy and measures the impact of China’s growth on growth in the rest of the world in the short and long term. Short-run estimates based on VARs and error-correction models suggest that spillover effects of China’s growth have...

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Growth and Productivity in Papua New Guinea

Faal, Ebrima - 2006

This paper has examined Papua New Guinea''s historical economic growth patterns through a simple growth accounting framework. The analysis shows that swings in growth are mostly accounted for by a significant slowdown in capital input and lower Total Factor Productivity (TFP) growth. It also...

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Economic Growth and total Factor Productivity in Niger

Nachega, Jean-Claude - 2006

This paper investigates empirically the sources of aggregate output growth and the determinants of total factor productivity (TFP) in Niger between 1963 and 2003. A growth accounting analysis indicates that the erosion in output per capita over the sample period is due to the negative growth of...

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