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The Primacy of Institutions Reconsidered: The Effects of Malaria Prevalence in the Empirics of Development

Gundlach, Erich - 2004

I reconsider the primacy of institutions over geography as an explanatory factor of cross-country differences in economic performance, which has recently been postulated by Acemoglu et al. (2001) and others. My estimates show that the reported missing direct performance effects of a measure of...

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Can Norway be a role model for natural resource abundant countries?

Cappelen, Ådne; Mjøset, Lars - 2009

according to UNDP's human development indicator. We argue that this development is related to the growth of the Norwegian … petroleum sector, although many studies of economic growth conclude that countries abundant in natural resources are not blessed …

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Country role models for development success: The case of Costa Rica

Trejos, Alberto - 2009

In this paper, I discuss the reasons for Costa Rica's economic performance over the last quarter of a century. Three complementary sets of policies (investments in human capital, careful stabilization, and an intelligent and aggressive integration into the world economy) explain the successful...

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How severe will the growth slowdown in China caused by the structural change be? – An evaluation based on experiences from Japan and South Korea

Murach, Michael; Wagner, Helmut - 2017

investment- and manufacturing-led growth model towards a consumption- and service-led model is associated with decreasing growth … historical developments in Japan and South Korea. We derive plausible scenarios for future growth rates in China and (by … growth in China for the period 2016 until 2030 by applying a simple simulation study. …

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Structural transformation as determinant of growth in the best performing sub-Saharan African states

Andrzejczak, Katarzyna - 2017

economic development. It grew significantly in the precedent decade, but the extent of growth has not sufficiently translated …

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Long-Term Effects of Equal Sharing: Evidence from Inheritance Rules for Land

Bartels, Charlotte; Jäger, Simon; Obergruber, Natalie - 2020

division of land led to a more equal distribution of land; other potential drivers of growth are smooth at the boundary and …

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Institutions and FDI: Evidence from developed and developing countries

Sabir, Samina; Rafique, Anum; Abbas, Kamran - In: Financial Innovation 5 (2019) 1, pp. 1-20

This study investigates the impact of institutional quality on Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) inflows using panel data for low, lower-middle, upper-middle and high-income countries for the sample period of 1996-2016 using the system Generalized Method of Moments (GMM). The empirical results...

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Economic growth versus economic development

Dragoi, Doina - In: Atlantic Review of Economics (ARoEc) 4 (2020) 1, pp. 1-11

The objective of this article is to approach the concepts of growth and economic development in order to highlight the … a better life for it. Economic growth does not lead to a high quality of education or technology, but contributes to … aims at the economy of a country and implies the growth in both forms, qualitative and quantitative, including aspects …

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The Agricultural Origins of Time Preference

Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer - 2014

This research explores the origins of the distribution of time preference across regions. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically, that geographical variations in natural land productivity and their impact on the return to agricultural investment have had a persistent effect on...

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The agricultural origins of time preference

Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer - 2014

This research explores the origins of the distribution of time preference across regions. It advances the hypothesis, and establishes empirically, that geographical variations in natural land productivity and their impact on the return to agricultural investment have had a persistent effect on...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011526704