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It is estimated that by 2001 20 million people had died from AIDS, which is now the world´s fourth biggest cause of death. While the highest prevalence and death rates and number of infected persons are reported for sub-Saharan Africa, where life expectancies at birth are declining rapidly and...
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The paper aims at analysing the impact of territorial capital endowment on the economic growth process measured by … exports and employment growth for the 103 italian provinces over the period 1999-2011. A broader concept of territorial … provinces consisting of more than 30 indicators of territorial capital, we firstly estimate a 3-periods panel growth model for …
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This paper analyses the impact of different instruments of fiscal policy on economic growth as well as on income … estimate two individual equations explaining growth and inequality in order to assess the incidence of different fiscal … policies. Firstly, our approach considers imposing orthogonal assumptions between growth and inequality in both equations, and …
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This paper offers a reappraisal of the impact of migration on economic growth for 22 OECD countries between 1986 … capital on economic growth. And second, the contribution of immigrants to human capital accumulation tends to dominate the …
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evidence shows that tertiary education has a strong positive association with labor productivity growth, while secondary … with growth. Overall, findings suggest that policy makers should account for spillovers alongside technology heterogeneity …
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The Information and Communication technology(ICT) environment in the economic community of west african states(ECOWAS) has changed sufficiently to warrant re-conceptualization of the earlier initiatives. Notably, many new technologies have emerged, especially in the area of wireless...
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This paper deals with the effects of telecommunications on the economic growth in African countries. The … investigate empirically the role of telecommunication infrastructures on long-run economic growth in 40 African countries, for the … significant and positive correlation between telecommunication infrastructures and regional growth in Africa, after controlling …
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In this paper, I try to estimate the impact of Structural Funds on the growth rates of Objective 1 European regions … during the two first programming periods (1989-2000). I develop a "hybrid" model of economic growth that partially … that Structural Funds have positively influenced the growth process of Objective 1 regions, although their impact has been …
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This paper reinterprets a simple model of growth and fluctuations across many economies to allow for the explicit …, little convergence. The analysis uncovers some `convergence club'-like dynamics, and reveals the wide diversity in growth …
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This study presents novel empirical evidence on the optimal disaggregated public debt-growth threshold in the WAMZ over … the period 1996-2022. Determining the public debt-growth threshold in a disaggregated form is crucial for macroeconomic … capita income. Furthermore, they show that domestic debt appears to have less negative dampening effects on economic growth …
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