... Canning, Linlin Hu, Yuanli Liu, Ajay Mahal, and Winnie Yip, ‘The Contribution of Population Health and Demographic Change to EconomicGrowthin China and India’, Journal of Comparative Economics, ... Aging andEconomic Growth& quot;, forthcoming in Spence, Michael, and Danny Leipziger (eds.), Global Challenges and Growth, Commission on Growthand Development. 2reason to think that increasing ... significant slowing ineconomic growth; other things equal, rapid growth is typically fastest at lower levels of income. China has made considerable gains, and its economicgrowth is likely...
... the financial sector has been on deepening and broadening financial markets in developing countries and on improving financial sector regulation, supervision, and governance. The increasing ... Savings and Bank Credits in Nigeria: Determinants and Impact on EconomicGrowth 367 significant in impacting on savings mobilization in Nigeria. Reduction in inflation rate and proper sensitisation ... Thirdly, investment in new plant and machinery raises productivity growth by introducing new technology and innovation which would also lead to faster economic growth. To finance investment...
... (Fukuyama, 1992) and the economicgrowthand efficiency thatappears to sustain it.We attempt to enhance the understanding of the indirect effects that democ-racy has on economic growth. Although ... be innumerable. Post-communistRussia illustrates the point nicely:To invest in a Russian company, a foreigner must bribe every agency involved in foreign investment, including the foreign investment ... www.transparency.org.Leff, Nathaniel H. (1968). Economic Policy-Making and Development in Brazil, 1947–1964. NewYork: Wiley.Levin, Andrew and Lin, Chien-Fu (1993). “Unit Root Tests in Panel Data: New Results,”Discussion...
... Ozler, N. Roubini, and P. Swagel. 1996. Political Instability andEconomic Growth, Journal of Economic Growth Alesina, A. and D. Rodrik. 1994. Distributive Politics and Economics Growth. Quarterly ... Lawson and R.G. Holcombe 1999. Economic freedom and the environment for economic growth, Journal of Theoretical and Institutional Economics, 155, 643-663. Hanke, S. and S. Walters. 1997. Economic ... 1998. Institutions, Investment and Growth: new cross-country and panel data evidence., Economic Inquiry, 36, pp. 603-19. Desai, R.M., A. Olofsgard and T.M Yousef. 2003. Democracy, Inequality, and...
... Ozler, N. Roubini, and P. Swagel. 1996. Political Instability andEconomic Growth, Journal of Economic Growth Alesina, A. and D. Rodrik. 1994. Distributive Politics and Economics Growth. Quarterly ... as well as intervals Democracy andEconomic Growth: A meta-analysis Hristos Doucouliagos* and Mehmet Ulubasoglu School of Accounting, Economics and Finance Deakin University ... detrimental effect on economic growth. It is instructive to compare this result with similar finding for the association between economic freedom andeconomic growth. Doucouliagos and Ulubasoglu (2006)...
... (Fukuyama, 1992) and the economicgrowthand efficiency thatappears to sustain it.We attempt to enhance the understanding of the indirect effects that democ-racy has on economic growth. Although ... be innumerable. Post-communistRussia illustrates the point nicely:To invest in a Russian company, a foreigner must bribe every agency involved in foreign investment, including the foreign investment ... private sector to the public sector, and most economistsbelieve that the private sector more efficiently allocates resources than the public sector. Fourth, population growth may inhibit economic growth. ...
... care, includingreproductive health, has been one of the end goalsof sectorreforms from the beginning. Health sector Health sector reform and reproductive health in Latin America671Bulletin of ... wellcoordinated, and such fragmentation has resulted in overlapping policies and lagging programmes. Policy and programme development have also beenhindered by inadequate human and financial ... is increasinglyintegrated with municipal-level primary health ser-vices, and the quality and range of available servicesare improving (2). Growth in the size and influence of civil societyin...
... between 0 and 10, with a higher rating indicating a greater degree of economic freedom. The minimum value in the sample is 2.3 in Nicaragua in 1985, the maximum value 9.08 in Honk Kong in1 995 and ... secondary from 0% in Zimbabwe in 1970 to 47.5% in Austria in 1980. Another factor that might determ economicgrowth is inequality. The gini coefficient is obtained from the World Income Inequality ... contracting institutions, entry barriers, and other economic arrangements” and political institutions, “which correspond to the rules and regulations affecting political decision making, including...
... technological innovation in the tourism industry and how it is transforming the tourism business model. Technological innovation, a major force ineconomicgrowth It is taken as axiomatic that innovative ... technological innovation is considered as a major force ineconomic growth and focuses on some of the most distinctive features of innovation in the highly industrialized economies of the OECD area. In ... business in the world. The Internet is obviously transforming the tourism business in many ways, and easy access to information is growing rapidly in each of the separate components of the industry,...
... Easterlin, R. (1960) “Interregional Differences in per CapitaIncome, Population, and Total Income, 1840–1950.” In Trends in the American Economy in the Nineteenth Century, 73–141.Princeton, ... rate of growthin revenue below the rate of growth in income achieved higher rates of economic growth. The analysis underscores the negative impact of income taxes on economic growthin the states. ... “Marginal Tax Rates and State Economic Growth. ” Regional Science and Urban Economics 24(6): 687–705. Plaut, T. R., and Pluta, J. (1983) “Business Climate, Taxes and Expenditures, and State Industrial...
... Tobin effect suggests that inflation causes individuals to substitute out of money and into interest earning assets, which leads to greater capital intensity and promotes economic growth. In ... variables, including the growth rate of output, are independent of the growth rate in the money supply in the long-run. The main result in 4simple study on Fiji’s inflation impact on growth. ... monetary growthin determining inflation, while Neoclassical and Endogenous Growth theories sought to account for the effects of inflation on growth through its impact on investment and capital...
... instance, there is an interesting association between the growth take-off in China and the rate of investment in graduating engineers. Figure 10 shows recent data on the trend in engineering ... the recent past that economicgrowth has been accompanied by growth in both spending and participation in schooling. Economists, as reported in a brief overview in the next section, have examined ... schooling systems play a role in the constant and on-going process of industrialization in four broad and essential ways:1. Diffusing and inculcating the organizational attributes of industrial...
... other domestic financial institutions. The general finding isthat the presence of a more advanced domestic financial sector predicts higher economic growth. The main outstanding issue here is ... Hanushek and Kimko (2000) find that scores on internationalexaminations — indicators of the quality of schooling capital — matter more than yearsof attainment for subsequent economic growth. My findings ... public spending lowers growth is bydepressing investment. However, since the investment ratio is held constant in the growth- rate panel in Table 1, the estimated negative effect of G/Y on growth...