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This paper studies the long and short-run relationship between oil exports, non oil GDP and investment in five major oil exporting countries. Its goal is to verify the effect of natural resources exports on the economic performance. It considers the effect of cross sectional correlations and...
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unclear. One candidate is intangible capital - a rising driver of economic growth that, being non-pledgeable as collateral, is … policy could strengthen longer-term growth, particularly so where strong product market competition prevents firms from self …
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Investors all too often assign a uniform broad - brush risk rating to Sub-Saharan Africa. Yet, with over 40 nations and a landmass nearly twice that of Europe, there is clearly reason to suggest risk - return in Sub-Saharan Africa is unique across countries and specific to local experiences. In...
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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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, growth and exports, taking into account several factors such as theformation of raw equities, macroeconomic stability …, chemical, automotive, pharmaceutical and tourism industries,FDI growth in those sectors was much lower than in the FDI markets … for utilities andtelecoms.The study focuses on Foreign Direct investment (FDI) flows impact on selectsectoral growth in …
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potential candidate countries. The analysis reveals that total factor productivity growth has been the main driver of … convergence, followed by capital deepening, whereas labour has contributed only marginally to economic growth. There is evidence … negative link between the initial level of GDP and subsequent growth. Labour productivity has improved in most countries, while …
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Private Investment (FPI) and Remittances (REM) on output growth of the West Africa Monetary Zone (WAMZ) economies over the … period 1981-2010. Our results show that there are differences in the growth impact of the various forms of foreign capital … output growth in Nigeria. Again, we find that ODA positively contributes more to output growth in Sierra Leone and Ghana …
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growth in developing countries. Specifically, we investigate the robustness of a popular parametric specification of the aid …/economic growth re lationship in Less Developed countries (LDCs). First, we find that aid has a significant impact on economic growth … given the support of the sample data we use. However, the effect depends on how aid is measured. We find a positive growth …
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growth in developing countries. Specifically, we investigate the robustness of a popular parametric specification of the aid …/economic growth re lationship in Less Developed countries (LDCs). First, we find that aid has a significant impact on economic growth … given the support of the sample data we use. However, the effect depends on how aid is measured. We find a positive growth …
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