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Does financial liberalization influence saving, investment and economic growth? Evidence from 25 emerging market economies, 1973 - 96

Hermes, Niels; Lensink, Robert - 2005

This paper aims to investigate the relationship between financial liberalization on the one hand and saving, investment … investment (although there are some signs to believe that liberalization may actually reduce rather than increase domestic saving …), whereas it is positively associated with private investment, as well as with per capita GDP growth. We find a negative …

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Factor substitution, income distribution, and growth in a generalized neoclassical model

Irmen, Andreas; Klump, Rainer - 2007

asymmetries of savings out of factor incomes. This generalized model helps to shed new light on a recent debate concerning the … the particular savings hypothesis. However, if savings out of capital income are substantial so that a certain threshold …

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Factor Substitution, Income Distribution, and Growth in a Generalized Neoclassical Model

Irmen, Andreas; Klump, Rainer - 2007

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Risky human capital investment, income distribution, and macroeconomic dynamics

Grossmann, Volker - 2003

This paper analyzes the interaction between intergenerational wealth transmission, human capital investments under uninsurable labor income risk, and economic growth in a small open overlapping-generations economy with heterogeneous agents. It demonstrates how the role of the personal income...

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Macroeconomic determinants of exit from aid-dependence

Hailu, Degol; Shiferaw, Admasu - 2012

maintaining moderate inflation, the rate of investment; aggressive effort at domestic resource mobilisation; and structural change …

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Schooling, cognitive skills, and the Latin American growth puzzle

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger - 2009

Economic development in Latin America has trailed most other world regions over the past four decades despite its relatively high initial development and school attainment levels. This puzzle can be resolved by considering the actual learning as expressed in tests of cognitive skills, on which...

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Growth and Human Development: Comparative Latin American Experience

Ranis, Gustav; Stewart, Frances - 2001

This paper seeks to examine the interdependence between economic growth (EG) and human development (HD). It is concerned with changes in per capita income and its two-way relationship with the basic societal objective of human development. Regressions across various Latin American countries are...

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How Much does Sweden Invest in Intangible Assets?

Edquist, Harald - 2009

total investment in intangibles was 227 billion or approximately two-thirds of the total investment in fixed capital in 2004 …. Thus, investment in intangibles was considerable in 2004. The corresponding figures for the UK and the US were 10.9 and 13 …

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Can Investment in Intangibles Explain the Swedish Productivity Boom in the 1990s?

Edquist, Harald - 2009

recognizing that firms make substantial investment in intangible assets such as R&D, design, advertising etc. These investments … are not classified as investment in the National Accounts, where only tangible assets are defined as investment. This … paper provides estimates of investment in intangible assets and uses the growth accounting framework to analyze the Swedish …

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Analyzing the stock markets role as a source of capital formation in Pakistan

Kanasro, Hakim Ali; Junejo, Mumtaz Ali; Junejo, Mansoor … - In: Pakistan Journal of Commerce and Social Sciences (PJCSS) 5 (2011) 2, pp. 273-282

This paper is to examine the stock markets role in the capital formation in Pakistan from the period 1st January 2001 to 31st December 2008. This analytical study is based on the data collected from the secondary sources such as State Bank of Pakistan and three stock exchanges; Karachi, Lahore...

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