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Chatelain, Jean-Bernard - 2010

This companion paper to Chatelain and Ralf (2012), “Spurious regressions with near-multicollinearity” put their results into the contexts of the history of statistics, of the current publication bias in applied sciences and of the substantive versus statistical significance debate. This...

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Domestic resources, governance, global links, and the economic performance of Sub-Saharan Africa

Amavilah, Voxi Heinrich - 2008

This paper uses a simple production function to show that the economic performance of a group of African countries in 2007 depended on three broad sources: domestic resources, governance, and global links. The results reveal that investment plays the most important part. The effects of education...

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Direct & Indirect Effects of Aid Volatility on Growth: Do Stronger Institutions Play a Role?

Kathavate, Jay - 2013

This paper develops a political economy model to analyze the direct and indirect effects of aid volatility on growth … and the outcome of higher institutional quality on the effect of aid volatility on growth. Using time-series cross section … data for 77 countries from 1984-2007, the effects of aid volatility on growth are empirically tested. It is concluded that …

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A Simple Accounting Framework for the Effect of Resource Misallocation on Aggregate Productivity

Aoki, Shuhei - 2008

This paper develops a simple accounting framework that measures the effect of resource misallocation on aggregate productivity. This framework is based on a multi-sector general equilibrium model with sector-specific frictions in the form of taxes on sectoral factor inputs. Our framework is...

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A Growth Theory and Competitiveness Gains Measure Linkage

González, Germán - 2006

This work provides a macroeconomic approach and a sound conceptual foundation for the notion of "competitiveness gains", so prone to multiple interpretations, and to make it fit for empirical analyses. Instead of "competitiveness" is "competitiveness gains" the relevant concept, defined as a...

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Intensity of technology use and per capita real GDP across some African countries

Amavilah, Voxi Heinrich - 2006

African countries may have fared poorly compared to some countries in other regions, but relative to their own performance history some African countries have done quite well over the past eight years. In particular 2004 and 2005 were especially good years. How can such performance be made to...

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Ghana's Economic Growth in perspective: A time series approach to Convergence and Growth Determinants

Baafi Antwi, Joseph - 2010

Economic growth around the world has not been equal for a long time. Some economics grow faster while others grow slower. But economists have predicted that the slower growing economics will eventually converge with the faster growing economy as some point in the future. This is known as the...

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Military Expenditure and Economic Growth: A Meta-Analysis

Alptekin, Aynur; Levine, Paul - 2010

Meta analysis is conducted to review 32 empirical studies with 169 estimates to find the combined overall effect of military expenditure on economic growth. Using a meta fixed and random effects and regression analysis, our results show that there exists a "genuine" net effect of military...

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A Three-Sector Model of Structural Transformation and Economic Development

Bah, El-hadj M. - 2007

Differences in total factor productivity (TFP) are the dominant source of the large variation of income across countries. This paper seeks to understand which sectors account for the aggregate TFP gap between rich and poor countries. I propose a new approach for estimating sectoral TFP using...

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The effects of technology-as-knowledge on the economic performance of developing countries: An econometric analysis using annual publications data for Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa, 1976-2004

Amavilah, Voxi Heinrich - 2007

Extant literature indicates that technology, and by implication its underlying knowledge base, determines long-run economic performance. Absent from the literature with respect to developing countries are quantitative assessments of the nexus between technology as knowledge and economic...

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