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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Per Capita GDP"”.
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An Empirical Assessment of Richard Florida's Creative Class Theory in the United States from 2001-2020
… years have elapsed. Statistical analysis of an operationalized creative class theory in relationship to growth in real per capita GDP does not show a statistically-significant, positive relationship. In fact, depending on the variable, most analysis shows either no statistically- significant …
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ON THE EFFECTS OF IMMIGRATION ON HOST COUNTRIES
… on the effects of migration on the economic performances in host countries. The aim of the chapter is to provide a synthetic view of both theoretical and empirical literature to better understand how host economies are affected by changes in their foreign born population endowment. The …
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An application of Solow's growth model: Case of sub-Saharan Africa
… by the growing concern over the poor economic performance of Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) relative to the rest of the world over the past decade. The purpose of the study is to examine how a simple and predictable model like Solow's model can explain per capita income in SSA. Our study consists of …
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The development of the contested city form of Shenzhen, China
… thirty thousand to 4.7 million with average 28 percent annual per capita GDP increase. What city forms have been sustaining this rapid economic and population growth? Why has the city adopted these forms? The objective of this thesis is to demonstrate the historical, cultural, political, …
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CONVERGENCE IN SECTORAL LABOR PRODUCTIVITY AND STRUCTURAL CHANGE
… observed failure of unconditional convergence of per capita GDP, our findings of unconditional convergence in the service sector suggest that we need to look carefully at methodological issues such as "aggregation bias" and the huge divergence of other sectors such as the agricultural sector as a …
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An analysis of cigarette prices and affordability in Africa: evidence from African Cigarette Prices (ACP) Data
… as Relative Income Price (RIP), i.e., as a percentage of per capita GDP for all countries. For South Africa, affordability is also estimated separately using household per capita income by sub-national region. The results of the study show that cigarettes are more affordable in countries and …
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Dynamics of Economic Corruption
… countries, has been shown to have large persistent effects on inequality and economic growth. Efforts to eradicate or suppress corruption over the last two decades have floundered. This dissertation argues that urban population density is a major underlying factor of economic corruption …
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Social Underdevelopment In Sub-saharan Africa
… a more noticeably inferior reserve of human capital than other developing regions. This is puzzling because at the inception of independence, the future of Africa looked promising. However, during the 1970s both the political and economic situation in Africa began to deteriorate, and since …
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Financial Sector Development and Poverty Reduction in Namibia
… and poverty reduction. Interestingly, the per capita GDP is negatively associated with the poverty measure. The study recommends the government to focus on policies that stimulate credit to the private sector. In terms of trade openness, policies should aim at improving and strengthening …
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No Half Measures Power Vacuums and Military Occupations
… which is defined as the decline of a state's per-capita GDP and overall population, is not the sole factor in preventing a power vacuum. Combinations of other conditions help influence the advent or absence of a power vacuum, but economic destruction inflicted by the occupier is the only …
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The Dynamics of Size, Composition, and Fiscal Authority in Government Expenditures: Examining The Effects of Social Disturbance
… finds a strong and positive correlation between per capita GDP and total spending as well as social security, education, and public safety spending, which confirms Wagner's Law. Results also reveal that unemployment rate is strongly and positively related to total spending and several sub policy …
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European Private Equity-Fund for Entrepreneurs and the Impact on Market Growth within the Boundaries of the European Union.
… of the European Union are, in regards to Venture Capital investments, measurably successful and share among each other such similarities that their conditions for optimized tax conditions may be taken in to consideration? Chapter 2 deals with the Private Equity concept whereas in basics three …
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Essays in the Gulf Cooperation Council economies and market dynamics
… as such countries have been found to underperform those that are significantly disadvantaged in terms of such resources, leading to what has been termed as the resource curse. The current thesis aims to investigate the existence of resource curse for the oil abundant GCC countries as well …
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Urban-Scale Decomposition of Carbon Peaking Targets in the Yangtze River Delta from a Consumption-Based Responsibility Perspective
… River Delta from a consumption-based accounting perspective. Focusing on the 41 cities in the YRD, this study constructs an integrated framework of “carbon accounting - carbon prediction - carbon quota allocation.” First, using a city-level MRIO model and carbon data, we measure production-based …
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Evaluation of guarantees of origin as a regulatory tool for sustainable energy
… was no scholarly evidence on it. Previous papers focused only on specific countries and did not have a Europe-wide approach. • The main drivers of RES electricity in Europe were identified as the following: capacity of electricity generating facilities, electricity import dependency, …
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Aid-Foreign Direct Investment Linkages: A Case Study of Aid and Foreign Direct Investment in Uganda.
… dollars of development assistance over the period from independence in the 1950s/60s to the present; yet with a few exceptions, they are generally poorer in per capita GDP terms in the 2000s than they were in the 1970s. However, reforms SSA economies since the early 1990s have transformed …
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The role of renewable energy in reducing greenhouse gas emissions in selected South Asian countries : panel data analysis
This quantitative study explores the effect of Renewable Energy on Greenhouse Gas Emissions (GHG) in the selected South Asian countries between 2003 and 2021. The research study is based on secondary data. It utilizes panel data and analyzes the data using STATA, a robust statistical software. …