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Has New Zealand benefited from its investments in research & development?

Razzak, Weshah; Stillman, Steve; Johnson, Robin - 2005

&D has a statistically significant positive impact on own-industry output per person, suggesting it increases productivity … certain industries positively affects output per person in the rest of the economy, i.e. it generates positive spillovers …. There is no evidence of positive spillovers from publicly provided R&D. …

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Human capital, international migration, R&D spillovers, and productivity growth: A panel data analysis

Le, Thanh - 2006

development of national productivity. As technology is also embodied in human capital, the paper empirically investigates the … significance of labour mobility as an effective channel of R&D spillovers based on panel cointegration method. Estimates of …

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Evaluating Aid Effectiveness in the Aggregate: Methodological Issues

Carl-Johan, Dalgaard; Henrik, Hansen - 2009

The purpose of the present Evaluation Study is to discuss the methodological problems researchers are facing in gauging the impact of aid on economic growth. The discussion is nontechnical and aimed at an audience without much prior knowledge in the fields of macroeconomics and econometrics. The...

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Evaluating Aid Effectiveness in the Aggregate: A critical assessment of the evidence

Carl-Johan, Dalgaard; Henrik, Hansen - 2010

The purpose of the present evaluation study is to discuss the empirical studies that attempt to estimate the impact of foreign aid on economic growth. The study draws on a previous evaluation study (Dalgaard and Hansen, 2009), which introduces the general econometric methodology involved in...

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Structural changes and convergence in EU and in Adriatic-Balkans Region

Albu, Lucian-Liviu - 2011

in matter of productivity, there are two versions of the model: considering the share of sectors in total employment and …

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The Impacts of Domestic and Foreign Direct Investments on Economic Growth: Fresh Evidence from Tunisia

Bouchoucha, Najeh; Bakari, Sayef - 2019

This paper aims to analyze the impact of domestic investment and Foreign Direct Investment on economic growth in Tunisia during the period 1976–2017. This study is based on the Auto-Regressive Distributive Lags (ARDL) approach that is proposed by Pesaran et al (2001). Bound testing approaches...

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Monitoring Structural Changes in NER: -An Empirical Analysis of Mizoram

Md., Samsur Jaman - 2014

This paper adopts a recent development in the estimation and testing of multiple structural breaks in linear growth model to identify the phases of economic growth in Mizoram since 1980. Breakdates and growth rates of different phases are estimated using the recent developed methodology of Bai...

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The Role of Telecommunication Infrastructure in the Regional Economic Growth of Africa

Enowbi Batuo, Michael - 2008

This paper deals with the effects of telecommunications on the economic growth in African countries. The telecommunications sector became a vital sector during the era of the economic reform that has been characterising the continent. We investigate empirically the role of telecommunication...

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Financial Development and Growth: Panel Cointegration Evidence from South-Eastern and Central Europe

Stojkoski, Viktor; Popova, Kristina; Tevdovski, Dragan - 2017

Ever since Schumpeter, macroeconomists have argued that financial development has a large and direct effect on the long run wealth of a nation. In this paper, we empirically investigate this relationship for a panel of 16 South-Eastern and Central European countries over the period 1995-2014 by...

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A Reassessment of the Relation between Economic Growth and Maldistribution of Income

Clavijo-Cortes, Pedro; Robledo-Campo, Jacobo; … - 2019

This article aims to evaluate the effect of the maldistribution of income on economic growth. From the empirical point of view, the literature on the matter is considerable. However, previous studies have employed the Gini index as a measure of inequality which tends to underestimate income...

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