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Why is China investing in Africa? : evidence from the firm level
Chen, Wenjie; Dollar, David; Tang, Heiwai - 2016
China's increased trade with and investment in Africa have boosted the continent's economic growth but have also … generated considerable controversy. In this paper we investigate China's outward direct investment ODI in Africa using macro and … micro data. The aggregate data on China's ODI in African countries reveal that China's share of the stock of foreign …
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The changing patterns of investment in the PRC economy
Holz, Carsten A. - 2017
The investment-intensive growth model of the People's Republic of China (PRC) is often viewed as state-driven and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011657882
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China's investment rate : implications and prospects
Holz, Carsten A. - 2017
For the past nearly forty years, China has experienced average annual real GDP growth of close to ten percent, much of … expenditures. This paper documents the role of investment in driving economic growth in China, questions how much longer China can … reduction in investment. It also notes that investment in China remains broad-based across all economic sectors, with little …
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Is there a nonlinear relationship between economic growth and inequality? : theory and lessons from ASEAN, People Republic of China and India
Gangopadhyay, Partha; Bhattacharyay, Biswanath - 2015
(economic growth). Our findings for the Associations of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), People Republic of China and India (ACI …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010531112
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Threshold effects and regional economic growth e Evidence from West Germany
Funke, Michael; Niebuhr, Annekatrin - 2002
We study an overlapping generations model of human capital accumulation with threshold effects using regional data for West Germany. Our basic goal is to shed light on what makes German regions grow. The paper finds that the relative income distribution appears to be stratifying into a trimodal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011409398
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The elusive quest for the holy grail of an impact of EU funds on regional growth
Fidrmuc, Jan; Hulényi, Martin; Zajkowska, Olga - 2019
We analyze the impact of EU structural and cohesion funds on economic growth of European regions, using 2SLS to tackle the potential problem of endogeneity, and estimating a spatial model to account for inter-regional spillovers. We use the presence of environmentally protected areas (under the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012138778
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Human capital quality and aggregate income differences : development accounting for US states
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Ruhose, Jens; Woessmann, Ludger - 2015
Although many U.S. state policies presume that human capital is important for state economic development, there is little research linking better education to state incomes. In a complement to international studies of income differences, we investigate the extent to which quality-adjusted...
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Growth effects of spatial redistribution policies
Arcalean, Calin; Glomm, Gerhard; Schiopu, Ioana Cosmina - 2012
Regional income disparities have increased in many European countries recently, even as national and supra-national policy instruments were created to correct them. To explain these evolutions, we develop a two-region, two-sector model with migration and public investment in infrastructure and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009488855
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Local economic growth and infant mortality
Kammerlander, Andreas; Schulze, Günther G. - 2021
We show, for the first time, a causal effect of local economic growth on infant mortality. We use geo-referenced data for non-migrating mothers from 46 developing countries and 128 DHS survey rounds and combine it with nighttime luminosity data at a granular level. Using mother fixed effects we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012624852
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The impact of the spatial population distribution on economic growth : evidence from the United States
Bürgi, Constantin; Gorgulu, Nisan - 2022
We look at a part of the spatial angle of economic growth. We introduce a new measure Spatial Population Concentration (SPC) that captures the weighted average population surrounding every person within a geographic area. The weights are a function of the distance between the person in question...
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