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direct investment is also substantial. We explain these features in terms of a conventional neoclassical growth model-with no …
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We study the effects of permanent and temporary income shocks on precautionary saving and investment in a ""store … investment, or a ""volatility trap."" Namely, big savers invest relatively little. In contrast, low volatility of permanent … shocks leads to low precautionary saving and high or low investment, depending on the volatility of temporary shocks …
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countries have a smaller share of exports, lower degree of financial deepening, lower levels of domestic savings, higher …
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We provide a consistent empirical framework to estimate the net joint effect of emigration and remittances on the migrants' countries of origin key economic variables (GDP growth and labor force participation), while addressing the endogeneity concerns using novel "shift-share" instrumental...
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We investigate the nexus of public and private investment and assess the impact of both types of investment on growth …. Using annual data for 1965-2005, we employ a coherent set of structural VAR outputs to model investment and growth in Benin …. We find that in addition to institutional and regulatory developments, public investment and private capital formation …
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The growth literature has had problems explaining the ""sub-Saharan African growth dummy"" in cross-country regressions. Instead of taking the usual approach of focusing on long-run growth and assuming that sub-Saharan countries have homogenous parameters in growth regressions, we concentrate...
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Over the past decade, China's growth model has become more reliant on investment and its footprint in global imports … has widened substantially. Several economies within China's supply chain are increasingly exposed to its investment …-led growth and face growing risks from a deceleration in investment in China. This note quantifies potential global spillovers …
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We investigate the nexus of public and private investment and assess the impact of both types of investment on growth …. Using annual data for 1965-2005, we employ a coherent set of structural VAR outputs to model investment and growth in Benin …. We find that in addition to institutional and regulatory developments, public investment and private capital formation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012677591
of investment, civil conflict, economic inefficiencies, state intervention in the economy, and regulatory restrictions …
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