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-2013. This study focuses on two particular channels through which democracy affects growth, namely FDI inflows and public … promotes growth indirectly by stimulating FDI inflows and hinders growth by generating higher public consumption expenditure. …
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–2013. This study focuses on two particular channels through which democracy affects growth, namely FDI inflows and public … promotes growth indirectly by stimulating FDI inflows and hinders growth by generating higher public consumption expenditure. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011983284
The present paper develops a general production function framework, augmented with two institutional variables namely, bureaucracy and corruption, on 28 transition economies over the period 2000 to 2015. We use various econometric specifications and apply both the Fixed Effects as well as the...
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The purpose of this research is to estimate the dynamic impacts of foreign direct investments (FDI) and exports on … assumptions, we find that the change in exports does not affect GDP, and the effect of FDI on GDP can be positive or negative … (% of GDP), exports of goods and services (% of GDP), and GDP growth rate (%). FDI and exports constitute first …
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Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) facilitates the growth of international production which provides an unprecedented … relationship between FDI and Economic Growth in Nigeria for the period 1978-2007. The stationarity of the data series are tested … causality test. The study found that the FDI and Gross Domestic Product (GDP) are cointegrated while the VECM employed shows …
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This paper analyzes the effects of foreign direct investment on the economic growth of developing countries. The study uses annual data on a group of 85 developing countries covering Asia, Africa, and Latin America and the Caribbean for the period 1980-2007. We explore the hypothesis that...
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Crime is a major impediment to economic growth and development in Nigeria despite measures taken to reduce it. There is, however, currently no major statistical analysis of how crime affects economic growth in that country. This study examines the link between crime and growth based on the...
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This study aims to analyze the impacts of indirect determinants such as institutions, trade-financial openness and macroeconomic stability on economic growth in 48 middle income countries. With this purpose, the impacts of the ten indicators in total belonging to the aforesaid variables for the...
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We study the economic effects of religious practices in the context of the observance of Ramadan fasting, one of the central tenets of Islam. To establish causality, we exploit variation in the length of the fasting period due to the rotating Islamic calendar. We report two key, quantitatively...
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This article analyses the main determinants of income per capita based on a sample of 50 countries for the period 2005 to 2009, using multivariate statistics. The results show that institutional indicators (heterodox) have a greater impact on the welfare of the population than the traditional...
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