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Planes, Trains, and Automobiles: What Drives Human-Made Light?

Dickinson, Jeffrey - 2020

income from 2012-2018 for both Brazil and the United States including 3,095 US counties, and 5,570 municipios. I leverage the … in income when controlling for population effects. I find positive effects of GDP on light in both USA and Brazil, though … light is less responsive to changes in GDP in Brazil than in the USA. Consistent with the literature, I discover …

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Planes, Trains, and Automobiles: What Drives Human-Made Light?

Dickinson, Jeffrey - 2020

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Territorial approaches for rural development in Latin America: a case study in Chile

Pisani, Elena; Franceschetti, Giorgio - 2011

A recent transition in the field of agrarian economics theory for rural development is the move from a narrow agricultural sector approach, to one which adopts broader territorial vision. This passage seeks to interpret interactions between urban and rural worlds in a more comprehensive...

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The National Accounts as a Tool for Analysis and Policy; History, Economic Theory and Data Compilation Issues

Bos, Frits - 2009

Without national accounts statistics, citizens, politicians, entrepreneurs and economists would be blind for the size, composition and development of national economies. This book provides a unique overview of the merits and limitations of the national accounts. Attention is paid to the three...

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The growth of two small economies in the Great Depression: GDP estimation for Cyprus and Malta during the interwar period (1921-1938)

Apostolides, Alexander - 2011

This article presents the major results of the first attempt to create historical national accounts for Cyprus and Malta. It constructs the first detailed estimates of output at aggregate and sector levels, enabling the analysis of economic growth and tracing structural change. The islands’...

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Three centuries of macro-economic statistics

Bos, Frits - 2011

This paper describes the history of the national accounts starting from the incidental estimates by Petty, King and Davenant in the seventeenth century. The period 1930-1950 was a revolution in terms of the roles and uses of the national accounts, e.g. the discovery of input-output analysis,...

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Growth accounting by decomposition: a modified NIRS approach

Shin, Inyong - 2002

This paper points out the fallacy in the previous method of growth accounting by decomposition. Specically, it points out that the previous studies tend to measure the contribution of technical progress to economic growth to be too low and that of capital accumulation too high.

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Development of a two-sector model with an extended energy sector and application to Portugal (1960-2014)

Santos, João; Domingos, Tiago; Sousa, Tânia; … - 2018

In basic economic growth models, energy is neglected as a production factor, and output is generated from capital and labor in a single-sector process, with most of growth attributed to an exogenous residual. However, alternative approaches argue for a multi-sector system in which the major...

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External Debt and Economic Growth in Ghana: A Co-integration and a Vector Error Correction Analysis

Matuka, Adelajda; Asafo, Shuffield Seyram - 2018

This paper employed a co-integration analysis and an error correction methodology to examine the impact of external debt on economic growth in Ghana using annual time series from 1970-2017. Estimates show that our normalized long-run co-integrating growth equation coefficients do not differ from...

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Оценка производственной функции в условиях неопределённости динамики физического капитала

Краснопёров, Олег - 2012

Основной проблемой при оценке производственной функции развивающихся стран является отсутствие надёжных статистических данных по физическому капиталу....

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