Economic Growth and Development
Another problem is that the positive relation between investment and growth can be strongly influenced by the presence of a few ...
The attention Easterly and Levine give to productivity stems from the obser- vation by Robert Solow in his influential 1957 arti ...
save on water. Each step in this process will raise output but at a diminishing rate. Eventually increasing output further by ch ...
financial system a negative impact on investment in 30 Sub-Saharan African countries between 1970 and 1995. Greene and Villanue ...
provide other stimuli to growth and productivity. Stock markets can help investors to monitor managers. Investors can compare sh ...
profitable. Such capacity would probably be scrapped, rather than converted for other purposes. Private entrepreneurs might not ...
Sri Lanka, after 1977, provides a good example of a reform effort that was considered credible by private investors. The private ...
investment between 1971 and 1977 and 40 per cent of a much higher total after Growth doubled from an average of 3 per cent betw ...
mill and a shipbuilding industry; the steel mill supplies inputs to the shipbuild- ing industry. Neither can be profitable witho ...
from typical developing country bureaucracies in their real power, authority, technical competence, and insulation from short-te ...
image is that of the FDI-created sweatshop in developing countries; a foreign- owned factory paying low wages and violating loca ...
25–50 per cent discount compared with other foreign investors. They achieve this through lower margins, access to cheaper financ ...
transfer of skills and learning. By 1985 more than 700 garment export manu- facturing factories had emerged in Bangladesh. Rhee ...
Chapter 4 Population and Economic Growth/ Development Many people assume that investment is always and everywhere a good thing; ...
to about 1.1 per cent per annum by 2014. Scholars now realize that popula- tion growth can be good or bad depending on the conte ...
Population: the basic concepts The total fertility rate (TFR) measures the number of children born to a woman during her lifetim ...
household income. Rapid population growth will initially increase the depend- ency burden (defined as the ratio of the populatio ...
Early in the demographic transition the proportion of children in the popu- lation will be increase, this in turn will reduce th ...
At most a demographic dividend offers only a potential for increased economic growth. There is no guarantee more people entering ...
technologies into agriculture or industry. If slavery was good for philosophy it wasn’t good for technological change. Other his ...
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