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Developing Economies with Industrial Policy: Towards a Toolbox for Economic Growth. With Case Studies of Jordan and Egypt
Benner, Maximilian - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
During the past two decades, the “Washington Consensus” has been the dominant recipe for unleashing economic growth in developing countries. In view of the strong criticism mounted against it, it seems to have lost prominence recently. The success of the East Asian newly industrialized...
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Devolution as a means to adequate social safety nets?
Van Mechelen, Natascha; De Maesschalck, Veerle - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Decentralisation is invariably among the recommendations that international organisations such as the World Bank make for an enhancement of social provisions, and particularly a better targeting of social assistance regimes, in Eastern and Central Europe. However, theoretical literature as wel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836017
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Does Financial Liberalization, Spur Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction in Six Sub-Saharan African Countries; Panel Unit Root and Panel Vector Error Correction Tests
Dandume, Muhammad Yusuf; A.C., Dr.Malarvizhi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
This paper examines the linkage among financial liberalization, economic growth and poverty reduction in Sub … growth is positively associated with poverty reduction and financial liberalization coefficients are positively related to … economic growth. It implies that financial liberalization causes economic growth. However, the coefficients of financial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010726390
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Does Financial Liberalization, Spur Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction in Six Sub-Saharan African Countries; Panel Unit Root and Panel Vector Error Correction Tests
Dandume, Muhammad Yusuf; A.C., Dr.Malarvizhi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
This paper examines the linkage among financial liberalization, economic growth and poverty reduction in Sub … growth is positively associated with poverty reduction and financial liberalization coefficients are positively related to … economic growth. It implies that financial liberalization causes economic growth. However, the coefficients of financial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108060
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Social Welfare Analysis of Income Distributions: Ranking Income Distributions with Crossing Generalised Lorenz Curves
Bellù, Lorenzo Giovanni; Liberati, Paolo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
This paper illustrates how Crossing Generalised Lorenz (GL) curves can be used to identify the best income distribution on social welfare grounds within a set of alternative income distributions generated by different policy options. It starts by illustrating two alternative income distributions...
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Should Income Inequality be Praised? Multiple Public Goods Provision, Income Distribution and Social Welfare
Itaya, Jun-ichi; Mizushima, Atsue - 2016
We investigate how income inequality affects social welfare in a model of voluntary contributions to multiple pure public goods. Itaya, de Meza, and Myles (1997) show that the maximization of social welfare precludes income equality in a single pure public good model. In contrast, we show that...
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The Old Man and the SNI: A review of advance and adversity in Hueting's research in sustainable national income (SNI), economic growth and the new scarcity from the environment
Colignatus, Thomas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Roefie Hueting (1929), recently turned 78 years of age, has been working on the subject of economics and the environment since around 1965. Seminal results are his notion of environmental functions (WWF, 1969), his Ph.D. thesis “New Scarcity and Economic Growth. More welfare through less...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836132
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Defense R&D: Effects on Economic Growth and Social Welfare
Chu, Angus C.; Lai, Ching-Chong - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
In the US, defense R&D share of GDP has decreased significantly since 1960. To analyze the implications on economic growth and welfare, we develop an R&D-based growth model that features the commonly discussed crowding-out and spillover effects of defense R&D on civilian R&D. The model also...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005011952
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The Tinbergen & Hueting Approach in the Economics of Ecological Survival
Colignatus, Thomas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Tinbergen & Hueting (1991) provide an approach to the economics of ecological survival that still is unsurpassed. Various “green GDPs” have been proposed such as ISEW, Ecological Footprint, Genuine Savings and Genuine Progress Indicator, and lately there is an increased interest in happiness...
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On the political economy of environmental survival versus collapse. Clarifying the work done by Tinbergen & Hueting vis-à-vis Weitzman, Nordhaus and Stern
Colignatus, Thomas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
The Stern Review (2006) on the economics of climate change presented a cost estimate of perhaps even 20% of national income and subsequently was criticized by Weitzman and Nordhaus and others in a discussion that centered on the use of the calculus of variations and the choice of the proper rate...
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