Similar Search Results

Housing and housing finance : a review of the links to economic development and poverty reduction

Doling, John; Vandenberg, Paul; Tolentino, Jade - 2013

, constituting the most valuable asset owned by most households and often requiring housing finance (mortgages) to allow for purchase …The paper provides a review of the literature that links housing, housing finance, and economic development. The …. These links - between housing and the economy and between housing and housing finance - are explored in this review paper …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781135

The reversal of the relation between economic growth and health progress: Sweden in the 19th and 20th centuries

Tapia Granados, José A.; Ionides, Edward L. - 2007

Health progress, as measured by the decline in mortality rates and the increase in life expectancy, is usuallyconceived as related to economic growth, especially in the long run. In this investigation it is shown thateconomic growth is positively associated with health progress in Sweden...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476720

Patent Policy, R&D and Economic Growth.

Chu, Chi Ho Angus - 2008

The literature on R&D-driven economic growth suggests that technological innovations result from entrepreneurial activities such as R&D investments. In the first two chapters of this dissertation, I develop tractable frameworks to characterize and quantitatively evaluate the effects of patent...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476911

Wages, economic development and the customary standard of life

Wilkinson, Frank - In: Cambridge journal of economics 36 (2012) 6, pp. 1497-1534

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009715367

The role of nonbank intermediation in a financially repressed economy (theory and evidence based on the Korean economy, 1972--1994)

Choi, Joong-Kyung - 2003

In existing economic literature on finance and economy, it is argued and generally accepted that financial …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009451225

Financial development and economic growth : a comparative study between Cameroon and South Africa

Djoumessi, Emilie Chanceline Kinfack - 2009

The causal relationship between financial development and economic growth is acontroversial issue. For developing countries, empirical studies have provided mixedresult. This study seeks to empirically explore the relationship and the causal linkbetween financial development and economic growth...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009457808