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Finance and growth: a macroeconomic assessment of the evidence from a European angle

Papaioannou, Elias - 2007

This paper reviews the literature on the finance-growth nexus within a neoclassical growth framework, placing an … Agenda. While more research is needed to establish causality and verify the theoretical channels linking access to finance …

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Finance for micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises in India: Sources and challenges

Singh, Charan; Wasdani, Kishinchand Poornima - 2016

Finance for micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) has been a concern for all stakeholders including … challenges faced by MSMEs in sourcing of finance during different stages of their life cycle. This study is a first … limitation in the identification and utilization of sources of finance. Data was collected through personal interviews using a …

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Saving by default: Evidence from a field experiment in rural India

Somville, Vincent; Vandewalle, Lore - 2015

A growing share of the world population is getting access to a formal bank account. This allows a move from cash to account based payments. Grounding our hypothesis in behavioral economics, we conjecture that being paid on an account instead of in cash can play a major role in encouraging...

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Regional evidence on the finance-growth Nexus

Vaona, Andrea - 2006

The Finance-Growth Nexus is a classical source of debate among economists. This contribution offers regional evidence … countries. The results for this application support the view that finance leads growth, reject its possible endogeneity and …

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Poolability and the finance-growth nexus: A cautionary note

Schiavo, Stefano; Vaona, Andrea - 2006

The present contribution tests whether countries can be pooled when studying the finance-growth nexus. Overall, our …

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Policy volatility and growth

Chong, Alberto; Gradstein, Mark - 2006

A growing body of recent macroeconomic evidence suggests that volatility is detrimental to economic growth. The channels through which volatility affects growth, however, are less clear; substantive evidence based on disaggregate data is almost non-existent. This paper offers a framework in...

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Foreign direct investment in small island developing states

Read, Robert - 2007

The role of foreign direct investment (FDI) in small island developing states (SIDS) is an issue that has been neglected until relatively recently. The reasons for this lack of interest are unsurprising, given both the low absolute volume of capital flows involved and the general neglect of...

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