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We investigate the relationship between remittances inflow and economic growth in a sample of 65 emerging countries …). Our empirical results show that the effect of remittances inflow on economic growth exhibits a highly nonlinear pattern …, which sheds new light on the remittances-growth nexus and provides evidence of a nonlinear relationship. …
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This paper investigates the relationship between urbanization and CO2 emissions in a sample of 20 emerging countries over the period 1992–2008 using the semi-parametric panel data model with fixed effects, proposed by Baltagi and Li (2002). We find little evidence in support of an inverted-U...
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Public regulations can increase economic growth by correcting market faults and decrease growth by consuming resources … between growth an regulation. The relationship is possibly non-linear with some level of regulation being optimal. We estimate … shows that the relationship indeed may be non-linear: High levels of regulation lowers growth, but there is no effect on …
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run growth. Therefore, recent studies have investigated the growth effects remittances in the recipient countries but … specifications and estimation methods. Our results show that the direct growth effects of remittances are insignificant. However …, remittances may have small indirect growth effects. …
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Development economists believe that migrant workers’ remittances are an important source of funds for long run growth …. Therefore, recent studies have investigated the growth effects of remittances and reached different conclusions. In many such … studies the growth of output is simply regressed on both remittances and the channels through which remittances affect growth …
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Many development economists believe that remittances by the migrant workers are an important source of long rum growth …. Therefore, recent studies have investigated the indirect and direct effects remittances on the growth rates of the recipient …. It is found that while the evidence supports the indirect effects of remittances, the direct growth effects of …
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We review the theoretical and empirical economic literature upon income inequality in emerging countries. We firstly describe the main observed developments and show that these are rather diverse across countries and developing regions. We subsequently expose the main theoretical mechanisms. We...
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This paper uses a production function to examine the channels through which remittances affect output per worker in 31 … Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) countries from 1980-2010. We find that remittances directly increase output per worker if … remittances have increased human capital among the low-income nations, among the upper-middle-income nations, they have mostly …
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This paper proposes a new approach to examine the relationship between CO2 emissions and economic developing. In particular, we propose to test the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis for a panel of 24 OECD countries and 32 non-OECD countries by developing a more flexible estimation...
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This paper uses a production function to examine the channels through which remittances affect output per worker in 31 … Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) countries from 1980-2010. We find that remittances directly increase output per worker if … remittances have increased human capital among the low-income nations, among the upper-middle-income nations, they have mostly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011390880