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Following the Trend: Tracking GDP when Long-Run Growth is Uncertain

Antolin-Diaz, Juan; Drechsel, Thomas; Petrella, Ivan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

most important driver of changes in GDP growth for both the US and other advanced economies. When applied to real-time data …

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Chapter 1. The Facts of Economic Growth

Jones, C.I. - In: Handbook of macroeconomics : volume 2, v. 2A-2B SET, (pp. 3-69). 2016

Why are people in the richest countries of the world so much richer today than 100 years ago? And why are some countries so much richer than others? Questions such as these define the field of economic growth. This paper documents the facts that underlie these questions. How much richer are we...

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The impact of government CSR supporting policies on economic growth

Škare, Marinko; Golja, Tea - In: Journal of Policy Modeling 36 (2014) 3, pp. 562-577

In this paper, we explore the link between socially responsible companies and economic growth across 25 countries during the 2000–2008 period. We extend the growth equation by incorporating corporate social responsibility (CSR) variables and a dummy variable to measure the impact of government...

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Is Tanzania a Success Story? A Long Term Analysis

Edwards, Sebastian - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

The purpose of this paper is to provide a historical perspective on the reform process initiated in Tanzania in 1986, and deepened in 1996. In order to do this I concentrate mostly on the period spanning from 1967, when the Arusha Declaration was adopted by the official political party the TANU,...

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Price Distortions and Economic Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa

Anderson, Kym; Brückner, Markus - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

that on impact there is no significant response of relative price distortions to changes in real GDP per capita. We then … standard deviation increase in distortions to relative prices reduced the region’s real GDP per capita growth rate by about …

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GROWTH INTENSITY OF EMPLOYMENT IN AFRICA: A PANEL DATA APPROACH

KAMGNIA, Dia B. - In: Applied Econometrics and International Development 9 (2009) 2

2 years). However GMM estimations indicate that the short run effects of GDP remain weak while credit to the private …

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Divide and Rule or the Rule of the Divided? Evidence from Africa

Michalopoulos, Stelios; Papaioannou, Elias - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

We investigate jointly the importance of contemporary country-level institutional structures and local ethnic-specific pre-colonial institutions in shaping comparative regional development in Africa. We utilize information on the spatial distribution of African ethnicities before colonization...

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Has the Growth of Real GDP in the UK Been Overstated Because of Mismeasurement of Banking Output?

Oulton, Nicholas - In: National Institute Economic Review 224 (2013) 1, pp. 59-59

If official figures overstated the growth of banking output in the UK in the recent boom, does this mean that GDP … other industry or industries must have been understated, leaving GDP relatively unaffected. The reason is that the Office … for National Statistics measures the real growth of GDP primarily from the expenditure side. And from the expenditure side …

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On the Shoulders of Giants: Tracing Back the Intellectual Sources of the Current Debate on “GDP and Beyond” to the 19th Century

Moore, Nils aus dem; Schmidt, Christoph M. - In: Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer … 233 (2013) 3, pp. 266-290

international debate on “GDP and beyond”. In contrast to similar efforts displayed in previous decades, the current projects …

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FDI inflow as an international business operation by MNCs and economic growth: An empirical study on Turkey

Temiz, Dilek; Gökmen, Aytaç - In: International Business Review 23 (2014) 1, pp. 145-154

then to analyze the FDI inflow and GDP growth in Turkey with econometric methods. …

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