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Trade and agricultural policies in Malawi: Not all policy reform is equally good for the poor

Douillet, Mathilde - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

The reduction of the existing global distortions to agricultural incentives is sometimes stated as a priority to fight poverty worldwide. But the impacts of global trade policy and domestic development policy reforms are rarely, if ever, compared. Despite technical limitations hindering rigorous...

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Beyond Institutionalism: There Lies a Good Set of Trade Policies

Mamoon, Dawood; Murshed, S. Mansoob - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

The purpose of this paper is to empirically examine the contribution of trade liberalisation to differences in the level of prosperity across nations. We compare this with the relative contribution of institutional capacity to prosperity, as well as the role of human capital accumulation in that...

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Gouvernance éducation et croissance économique

Jellal, Mohamed; Bouzahzah, Mohamed - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

This paper highlights formally the interaction existing between the quality of institutional governance, the education sector and economic growth. More fundamentally, we show how the quality of institutional governance matters in giving directly the appropriate incentives for human capital...

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Inequality, extractive institutions, and growth in nondemocratic regimes

Mizuno, Nobuhiro; Naito, Katsuyuki; Okazawa, Ryosuke - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

inequality leads to extractive institutions and impedes investment and growth. These results provide an explanation for the … inequality and quality of institutions. …

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The Institutions-Growth Nexus: Stages of Development

Nawaz, Saima - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

The objective of this study is to analyze the impact of institutions on the economic growth and examine whether the … institutions indeed are important in determining the long-run economic growth. However, the impact of the institutions on economic … institutions are more effective in developed region as compared to developing region. More specially, control over corruption, rule …

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Microfinancing for Poverty Reduction and Economic Development; a Case for Nigeria

Awojobi, Omotola; Bein, Murad - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

The main focus of this research is to juxtapose the features of microfinancing and the institutional forbearance of economic development in Nigeria. Based on empirical study, it has been observed that poverty is multifaceted and its persistence is due to lack of productive resources. The...

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Modeling the Informal Economy in Mexico. A Structural Equation Approach

Brambila Macias, Jose - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

This paper uses annual data for the period 1970-2006 in order to estimate and investigate the evolution of the Mexican informal economy. In order to do so, we model the informal economy as a latent variable and try to explain it through relationships between possible cause and indicator...

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Heterogeneity in Institutional Effects on Economic Growth: Theory and Empirical Evidence

Tamilina, Larysa; Tamilina, Natalya - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

transition countries’ institutions which are constructed revolutionarily differ from those that emerge evolutionarily in a … economic institutions and are more likely to be a function of the maturity of political institutions. In addition, economic … institutions in post-communist countries are a product of the quality of political bodies to a greater extent than their …

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Economic Growth, Safe Drinking Water and Ground Water Storage: Examining Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) in Indian Context

Hauff, Michael von; Mistri, Avijit - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015

The trade-off between economic growth and environmental sustainability is very tough to a faster growing developing country like India. The Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis proposes, environmental degradation increases with income growth first, and then it declines with income rise....

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Investigating the relationship between income, health and biomass consumption: a panel data analysis

Oparinde, Adewale - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

The inverted-U shaped relationship between environment and economic growth has been well established in the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) literature for several local air pollutants, such as suspended particulate matter. Very few studies, however, tested the EKC relationship for biomass...

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