Economic Growth and Development
1992, 10 per cent in 1993 and 25 per cent in 1994. In 1994 alone the output of the machine-building industry fell by more than 4 ...
1992, and poverty (according to a World Bank estimated poverty line) fell from 270 million people in the late 1970s to 100 milli ...
Uganda,are not included. A concern about these potential Leopards is that five of them are resource-rich, and three (Angola, Cha ...
World inequality A summary statistic that captures one aspect of all these growth stories is inequality between countries, and w ...
factors economic theory considers important in influencing growth for as large a number of countries as possible over as long a ...
growth. More generally Levine and Renelt (1992) found no robust relation between growth and the ratio of total government expend ...
theoretical interest (for example using school enrolment to try and capture human capital). In regression analysis policy variab ...
impact on growth in regions other than Sub-Saharan Africa. The broader implication of this discussion is that growth is not a un ...
pre-determined the finding of convergence discussed earlier in this chapter. A useful finding from this chapter is that growth a ...
Growth accounting Growth accounting gives life to the formula for the proximate determinants of growth by calculating the impact ...
working for shorter hours, in contrast with much of the nineteenth century when growth was based on accumulating more factors of ...
countries owing to higher migration levels. In general the contribution of labour to growth has been promoted by higher levels o ...
reflected in the consistently high contributions of labour. TFP growth has made a negligible contribution in all developing regi ...
between 1978 and 2004. Both countries experienced an acceleration of growth in output per worker after 1993. In both China and I ...
Key points Since 1950 there have been huge improvements in the production of stan- dardized national accounts, making GDP figur ...
Chapter 3 Domestic and Foreign Direct Investment We can all agree that investment is a good thing. Or can we? It is certainly tr ...
Houphouet-Boigny of the Côte d’Ivoire moved the capital from Abidjan to his home village Yamoussoukro, where he constructed a fi ...
The international community is already responding positively to our call for massive investments. In 1994 South Africa invested ...
investment rates surged to over 40 per cent of GDP in response to generous tax incentives in Singapore in the 1980s and 1990s, y ...
in growth between countries (confusing). In other words, investment has a significant and positive relationship with economic gr ...
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