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Middle East Transitions: A Long, Hard Road
Yusuf, Shahid - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2014
Since the onset of the Arab Spring, economic uncertainty in Egypt, Jordan, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia, and Yemen (Arab Countries in Transition, ACTs) has slowed already sluggish growth; worsened unemployment, particularly of youth; undermined business confidence, affected tourist arrivals, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011142081
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Sluggish Productivity Growth in Denmark: The Usual Suspects?
McGowan, Muge Adalet; Jamet, Stéphanie - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2012
of the four potential drivers of this puzzle, namely competition, education, labour market flexibility and the size of … facteurs potentiels de ce puzzle, à savoir la concurrence, l'éducation, la flexibilité du marché du travail et la taille du …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011276949
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Human Capital and the Future of Transition Economies
Spagat, Michael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
achievements are wasted as children fail to build upon their parents’ achievements. Policies affecting the education system and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124062
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Dalle analisi della crescita all’economia dell’istruzione e al capitale umano. Origine e sviluppo
Spalletti, Stefano - Dipartimento di Studi Sullo Sviluppo Economico (DISSE), … - 2007
The paper highlights that economics of education formally evolved in the last century, but its conceptualization was … reason of the spreading of the literature on education after 1960. In those years, the Chicago School and G. Becker adopted …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005627684
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Time Discounting, Education, and Growth: Evidence and a Simple Model
Bauer, Michal; Chytilová, Julie - In: Czech Journal of Economics and Finance (Finance a uver) 59 (2009) 1, pp. 71-86
In the paper we propose a new channel through which education may promote economic growth: education makes people more … findings are consistent with the causal effect of education on the subjective discount rate. In the second part of the paper … wider role of education in tackling possible development traps. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005808643
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A Model of Human Capital, Time Discounting and Economic Growth
Bauer, Michal; Chytilová, Julie - Institut ekonomických studií, Univerzita Karlova v Praze - 2008
development regimes and it illustrates wider role of education in tackling possible development traps. …
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Strengthening Competition in Poland
Égert, Balázs; Goujard, Antoine - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2014
Poland’s productivity has grown strongly over the past decade, and efforts to reduce the regulatory burden have been significant. Despite impressive progress, product market regulation remains more burdensome than in most OECD countries, partly due to the importance of red tape and the level...
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Transportation Technology and Economic Change: The Impact of Colonial Railroads on City Growth in Africa
Jedwab, Remi; Moradi, Alexander - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2013
What is the impact of modern transportation technology on long-run economic change in poor countries with high trade costs?  Rail construction in colonial Sub-Saharan Africa provides a natural experiment: 90% of African rail-road lines were built before independence, in a context where...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011159004
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Culture, Institutions and the Wealth of Nations
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Roland, Gerald - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
We construct an endogenous growth model that includes a cultural variable along the dimension of individualism-collectivism. The model predicts that more individualism leads to more innovation because of the social rewards associated with innovation in an individualist culture. This cultural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008680898
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Financial markets banks and growth: disenttangling the links
Iacopetta, Maurizio; Giovannini, Alessandro; Minetti, Raoul - Department of Economics, Sciences économiques - 2013
The paper reviews the state of the economic literature on the link between _nancial development and growth. We first examine the issue of measurement of financial development and the debate on the direction of causality between finance and growth. Next, we extensively discuss the various...
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