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Assessing the Impact of Ease of Doing Business and Corruption on Economic Growth for Africa Free Trade Zone (AFTZ) Member States
Bonga, Wellington Garikai - 2018
corruption on economic growth of AFTZ member states. The study employed a panel data analysis for the period 2010-2016, using … Stata Statistical Software. The study findings for the bloc, indicated that corruption, trading across borders, getting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012910879
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Economic growth and carbon dioxide emissions: Empirical evidence from China
Halkos, George; Tzeremes, Nickolaos - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Using time series data, this paper investigates China’s carbon emissions during 1960-2006, with particular focus on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009246885
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Kuznets curve and environmental performance: evidence from China
Halkos, George; Tzeremes, Nickolaos - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The paper investigates China’s environmental performance-economic development relationship for the time period of 1965 …-2009. The results indicate that after 1990 China increased its environmental performance mainly driven by the implementation of … several environmental policies. In addition when we taking into account several factors contributed to China’s economic growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009353829
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Environmental Kuznets Curves in the People’s Republic of China: turning points and regional differences
Jiang, Yi; Lin, Tun; Zhuang, Juzhong - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
of China by empirically estimating environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) models using provincial-level panel data from 1985 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008562614
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Economic Growth, Biodiversity and Conservation Policies in Africa: an Overview
Iritie, Jean-Jacques - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
From the economic literature on the relationship between economic growth and environment pioneered by Grossman and Krueger (1991) and Shafik and Bandyopadhyay (1992) we first conduct a theoretical and critical reflection on the existence of a Kuznets curve for biodiversity. It appears that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011166052
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Empirical Analysis of The EKC Hypothesis for Sulfur Dioxide Emissions in Selected Middle East and North African Countries
AROURI, Mohamed El Hedi; BEN YOUSSEF, Adel; M'HENNI, Hatem - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Studying the impact of economic growth on the environment in the context of developing countries has become of increasing economic importance in recent years. Alarming international reports showed that pollutants emissions are growing at their highest level ever, particularly in the South. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260408
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Causal misspecifications in econometric models
Itkonen, Juha - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
We bridge together the graph-theoretic and the econometric approach for defining causality in statistical models to consider model misspecification problems. By presenting a solution to disagreements between the existing frameworks, we build a causal framework that allows us to express causal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009644778
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Corruption and economic growth: A meta-analysis of the evidence on low-income countries and beyond
Ugur, Mehmet; Dasgupta, Nandini - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Corruption is a symptom and outcome of institutional deficiency, with potentially adverse effects on economic growth …. This paper aims to provide a synthesis of the existing evidence on the relationship between corruption and economic growth … findings indicate that corruption has a negative effect on per-capita GDP growth overall. We also report that corruption is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009372561
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“Economic freedom” and economic growth: questioning the claim that freer markets make societies more prosperous
Cohen, Joseph N - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
A conventional reading of economic history implies that free market reforms rescued the world’s economies from stagnancy during the 1970s and 1980s. I reexamine a well-established econometric literature linking economic freedom to growth, and argue that their positive findings hinge on two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257910
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“Economic freedom” and economic growth: questioning the claim that freer markets make societies more prosperous
Cohen, Joseph N - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
A conventional reading of economic history implies that free market reforms rescued the world’s economies from stagnancy during the 1970s and 1980s. I reexamine a well-established econometric literature linking economic freedom to growth, and argue that their positive findings hinge on two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009325575