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Towards determining Nigeria's economic growth path: a balance-of-payments constrained growth approach

Panshank, Yohanna; Civcir, Ifran; Ozdeser, ,Hüseyin - In: Economia : revista da ANPEC 21 (2020) 1, pp. 104-119

This paper examines Nigeria's long run growth path using the externally and internally constrained version of Thirlwall's growth model from 1982 to 2015. The present study modifies the SCA-BOPCG to take into account the effects the foreign contents in exports growth and the domestic investment....

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Migration from Developing Countries : Selection, Income Elasticity and Simpson's Paradox

Clemens, Michael A. - 2020

the relationship between these measures of selection and the income elasticity of migration. In low-income countries …-income countries the income elasticity of emigration demand is 0.23. The world's poor collectively treat migration not as an inferior …

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Migration from Developing Countries : Selection, Income Elasticity, and Simpson's Paradox

Clemens, Michael A. - 2020

relationship between these measures of selection and the income elasticity of migration. In low-income countries, people actively … income elasticity of emigration demand is 0.23. The world's poor collectively treat migration not as an inferior good, but as …

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On Income and Price Elasticities for Energy Demand : A Panel Data Study

Gao, Jiti - 2020

elasticity is generally in the range 0.6 to 0.8 and the price elasticity in the range -0.1 to -0.3. We also find that the income … assembled by Liddle and Huntington (2020). We find that while the elasticities of income and price are non-linear, the income … elasticity has been declining since the 1990s, which broadly corresponds to increasing awareness of the negative externalities …

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Where Do the Poor Live in Cities? Revisiting the Role of Public Transportation on Income Sorting in US Urban Areas

Nelson, Erik - 2020

Glaeser et al. (2008) argue that the relative distribution of poor and rich households (HHs) in American cities is “strongly” explained by the spatial location of the cities’ public transportation (PT) networks. Among their claims: 1) The broad distribution of poor and rich HHs in the...

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The role of income and substitution in commodity demand

Baffes, John; Kabundi, Alain; Nagle, Peter - 2020

This paper presents estimates of time-varying income elasticities of demand for energy and metal commodities. The analysis finds that the elasticities are close to unity, evaluated at world median per capita income levels. Furthermore, the estimates confirm that as income rises, demand growth...

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