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The Long-Lived Effects of Historic Climate on the Wealth of Nations

Bluedorn, John C.; Valentinyi, Akos; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2009

We investigate the long-run consequences of historic, climatic temperatures (1730-2000) for the modern cross-country income distribution. Using a newly constructed dataset of climatic temperatures stretching over three centuries (18th, 19th, and 20th), we estimate a robust and significant...

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Culture, diffusion, and economic development

Harutyunyan, Ani; Özak, Ömer - 2016

This research explores the effects of culture on technological diffusion and economic development. It shows that culture's direct effects on development and barrier effects to technological diffusion are, in general, observationally equivalent. In particular, using a large set of measures of...

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Comparative determinants of quality of growth in developing countries

Asongu, Simplice; Asongu, Ndemaze - In: International journal of happiness and development 4 (2018) 1, pp. 65-89

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Public Expenditure and Economic Growth : An Empirical Study for Latin America

Pinilla Rodríguez, Diego; Jiménez Aguilera, Juan de Dios - 2013

This article presents evidence of correlation between public spending measured by general government consumption (CFGG for its initial in Spanish) as central government primary spending (GPGC for its initials in Spanish) and output per capita in the last two decades. We use a panel data...

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Does financial inclusion enhance per capita income in the least developed countries?

Afonso, António; Blanco-Arana, M. Carmen - 2024

dimensions of financial inclusion are a better tool to improve the economic situation in the poorest countries in the world …

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International Benchmarking for Country Economic Diagnostics : A Stochastic Frontier Approach

Norambuena, Vivian - 2020

This paper discusses the analytical foundations of international comparisons for assessing a country's potential for improvement along various dimensions of social and economic development. The paper presents the Stochastic Frontier approach and applies it to estimate feasible frontiers or...

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On the water-energy-food nexus: is there multivariate convergence?

Bollino, Carlo Andrea; Galeotti, Marzio - 2021

This paper provides new evidence on the convergence process of energy, water and food per capita consumption levels for 108 countries from 1971 to 2018, using a common data set, with VAR and panel data approach. We establish a new notion of multivariate sigma and beta-convergence. The results...

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Globalization, Literacy Levels and Economic Development

Bhargava, Alok - 2010

This paper estimated models for GDP growth rates, poverty levels and inequality measures for the period 1990-2000 using … population health indicators such as life expectancy were important predictors of GDP growth rates. Fourth, results for poverty … measures showed that poverty was not directly affected by globalization indicators. Finally, the model for Gini coefficients …

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The impact of capital flows from commercial banks and FDI on sustainable economic growth in ASEAN countries

Long Thanh Tran - In: Contemporary economics 16 (2022) 3, pp. 361-373

region. As economic and political scenarios different, results might not be same in other parts of the world. …

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The impact of foreign direct investment on economic growth : an empirical analysis of different effects in less and more developed countries

Brenner, Thomas - 2014

This paper studies the effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) on national economic growth with the help of GMM panel regressions. Effects on productivity growth, capital and labor inputs as well as innovation activities are distinguished. Furthermore, less and more developed countries as...

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