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Innovation, Growth and Convergence in the Euro-Mediterranean Area: Implications for MENA Countries

Péridy, Nicolas - In: Economics Bulletin 30 (2010) 4, pp. 2978-2986

This paper focuses on the innovation gap between countries in the Euro-Mediterranean (Euromed) area and its … implications in terms of growth and convergence. Using a large set of innovation variables, we estimate a growth model à la Barro … which shows that differences in innovation between countries explain differences in growth of per capita GDP within this …

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Modeling the future of knowledge economy: evidence from SSA and MENA countries

Asongu, Simplice A - In: Economics Bulletin 33 (2013) 1, pp. 612-624

World Bank's Knowledge Economy Index (KEI): economic incentive, education, ICTs and innovation. The empirical evidence …

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Demographic and Socio-economic Determinants of Smoking Behavior: Evidence from Vietnam

Nguyen, Cuong Viet - In: Economics Bulletin 32 (2012) 3, pp. 2300-2312

Smoking is a leading cause for diseases and death. Information on factors affecting the smoking status is useful for policies on smoking reduction, especially in developing countries. This paper examines to what extent individuals' characteristics are correlated with the smoking status using a...

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Openness and growth in emerging Asian economies: Evidence from GMM estimations of a dynamic panel

Das, Anupam; Paul, Biru Paksha - In: Economics Bulletin 31 (2011) 3, pp. 2219-2228

With the progress of globalization, the openness-output nexus has drawn more attention than ever before. Results in this aspect, however, are inconclusive. Based on the average growth rate for the last two decades, we select 12 top performed Asian countries: Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia,...

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Financial development, threshold effects and convergence in developing and emerging countries

Allegret, Jean-pierre; Azzabi, Sana - In: Economics Bulletin 33 (2013) 3, pp. 1899-1921

In this paper, we perform GMM dynamic panel data estimations to test the relationship between financial development and growth. Our dataset is composed of 112 emerging and developing countries over the period 1975-2007. More specifically, we test the presence of financial development threshold...

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Bank competition, institution and economic development: Evidence from Asia during 1999-2007

Soedarmono, Wahyoe - In: Economics Bulletin 30 (2010) 3, pp. 2119-2133

From a sample of Asian countries over the period 1999-2007, this paper investigates the link between bank competition and economic development. In general, although banking market power has a U-shaped relationship with economic growth, banking market power tends to improve economic growth....

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