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Structural reforms to set the growth ambition
Rovo, Natasha - 2020
The effect of structural reforms on growth in Europe and Central Asia is assessed by looking separately at each supply-side channel: capital, labor, and productivity, with the last estimated using the stochastic frontier approach. By controlling for the interaction with the economic cycle, the...
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Economic growth in European Union NUTS-3 regions
Kilroy, Austin; Ganau, Roberto - 2020
This paper analyzes the growth pathways of 1,321 regions in the European Union from 2003 to 2017. The aim is to inform integrated territorial investments and other economic development initiatives in lagging regions. Using the definition of lagging regions from the European Commission's Catching...
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Growing United : Upgrading Europe's Convergence Machine
Ridao-Cano, Cristobal - 2018
Since its foundation over sixty years ago, the European Union (EU) has become the modern world's greatest "convergence … recognizing that convergence is not automatic. Inequality among people has been mounting in many parts of the EU since the 1990s … member states has been widening since the early 2000s. The EU is growing, but Europeans are not "growing united". Why …
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Assessing the Impact of Ease of Doing Business and Corruption on Economic Growth for Africa Free Trade Zone (AFTZ) Member States
Bonga, Wellington Garikai - 2018
A positive economic growth is one crucial macroeconomic objective of every nation. Many countries have formed regional as well as international trading blocs in an attempt to enhance economic growth and maximise welfare of each member state, the AFTZ member states are not an exception. This...
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Serbia's New Growth Agenda : State Aid
Vasiljevic, Dusko - 2020
to comply with EU laws. There is room to restructure the existing programs to target activities that have more growth and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012647013
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Lifting Economic Sanctions on Iran : Global Effects and Strategic Responses
Ianchovichina, Elena - 2016
This paper uses a global general equilibrium simulation model to quantify the effects of lifting economic sanctions on Iran with and without strategic responses. Iran benefits the most, with average per capita welfare gains ranging from close to 3 percent, in the case when Iran's crude oil...
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Agricultural Protection Growth in Europe, 1870-1969
Swinnen, Johan F. M. - 2009
Dramatic changes took place in agricultural policies in Europe in the 19th and 20th century. In the 1860s European nations agreed on a series of trade agreements which spread free trade across the continent. In the 1960s European nations concluded an international agreement which spread heavy...
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Supporting Growth and Stability in Afghanistan : The Country Partnership Framework Summary 2017 to 2020
World Bank Group - 2016
There have been substantial improvements in development outcomes in Afghanistan since 2001, particularly in terms of improved access to basic services such as water, sanitation, and electricity, and increased human development in education and health. However, some gains are now being eroded due...
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Does rainfall matter for economic growth? : evidence from global sub-national data (1990-2014)
Damania, Richard; Desbureaux, Sébastien; Zaveri, Esha - 2019
Much micro-econometric evidence suggests that precipitation has wide ranging impacts on vital economic indicators such as agricultural yields, human capital, and even conflict. And yet paradoxically most macro-econometric evidence (especially in the climate economy literature) finds that...
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Uncertainty in ex-ante poverty and income distribution : insights from output growth and natural resource country typologies
Mendez Ramos, Fabian - 2019
This paper studies future poverty, inequality, and shared prosperity outcomes using a panel data set with 150 countries over 1980-2014. The findings suggest that global extreme poverty will decrease in absolute and relative terms in the period 2015-2030. However, absolute poverty is likely to...
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