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Showing 1 to 20 of 96 for “"and GDP"”.
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Using Mixed Frequency Data to Forecast Recessions and GDP
This dissertation studies how and if mixed frequency time series data should be used to forecast recessions in the US and Canada, as well as GDP in a selection of OECD countries. The first chapter combines daily and weekly financial data with monthly macroeconomic indicators in a mixed frequency …
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Inward foreign direct investment (FDI) and economic growth in Zambia: a bivariate causality link between FDI and GDP.
… advantages to host countries among which is GDP growth, technological transfer, knowledge transfer and sustainable benefits such as employment creation, empirical investigations are all the more necessary to ascertain any such relationships. The paper attempts to fill the knowledge gap in the …
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Inward foreign direct investment (FDI) and economic growth in Zambia: a bivariate causality link between FDI and GDP.
… advantages to host countries among which is GDP growth, technological transfer, knowledge transfer and sustainable benefits such as employment creation, empirical investigations are all the more necessary to ascertain any such relationships. The paper attempts to fill the knowledge gap in the …
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HML, SMB, and GDP: Do Fama and French Factors Contain Information for Future Domestic Product in the United States?
… strategies selected by book-to-market values and market capitalization exhibit correlations to future real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth in the United States. Using the factor returns from 1993 to 2012 contrasting against future GDP growth from 1994 to 2013, the outcome of this study …
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The Social Impact of the International Monetary Fund: Structural Adjustment Programs in Latin America from 1980-2000
… Development Index (HDI), health, education, and GDP per capita. Overall, I found that the impact of IMF lending on all of the variables was measurably small, but it was also statistically significant for three of the four variables. The results were also mixed, with IMF lending having a …
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Relationship between electricity prices, consumption and economic growth in South Africa
… between electricity prices, consumption and economic growth at national and per sector levels in South Africa over the period from 2006 to 2017 using the auto-regressive distributed lag (ARDL) bounds testing approach and error correction model (ECM). With regards to electricity …
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Investigating the effects of resource seeking foreign direct investment in Niger Delta on Nigeria’s economic growth
… direct investment (FDI) inflows are in the oil and gas sector, which is determined by factor of natural endowment. This study justified that natural resource is the motivation for MNEs internalisation activities in the country. As a result, this research critically examined the role of Resource …
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The impact of mobile communications infrastructure investment on economic growth in South Africa
… provide the ability to access the internet and use telephony services, where the infrastructure exists. Because of its mobile nature a customer can always connect to the internet, even when not in the comfort of their home, unlike the case with fixed-line services. This paper studies the …
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Causal relationship between financial capital financial flows and economic growth in South Africa
… relationship between financial capital flows and economic growth in South Africa. Developing countries rely significantly on foreign capital inflows to supplement domestic savings for investment and growth. Foreign investment is essential to emerging nations' economic growth because it …
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The Effect of Outward Foreign Direct Investment on Exports in Japan during The Lost Decade, 1985-2005
… such as the World Bank, Federal Reserve and etc. to determine if there exists a significant correlation between the exports of Japan and its foreign direct investment (FDI) in the period of 1985-2005 with nearby trading partners of which include the countries of ASEAN, China and South …
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Public debt and economic growth: empirical evidence from South Africa
… investigate the relationship between public debt and economic growth in South Africa for the period 1977 – 2019. This study also seeks to review economic theories related to public debt and economic growth namely: Neoclassical, Ricardian and Keynesian theory. To achieve the research objective, …
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Emission trading with absolute and intensity caps
… that have absolute caps. However, we need to expand the emission trading to cover developing countries in order to achieve the maximum benefits from both higher environment quality and lower abatement cost. In this sense, the emission trading scheme at a global level in the future needs to …
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Do High Street Retail Rents Align with the Economy? An Analysis of Retail Real Estate Pricing Dynamics Based on Macroeconomic Trends
… the correlation between high street retail rents and key economic indicators, specifically Consumer Price Index (CPI) and Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Utilizing data on rent levels from prominent high streets globally, the analysis incorporates these macroeconomic indicators to discern patterns …
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AN examination of the casual relationship between economic growth, foreign direct investment and exports, in Namibia
… relationship between economic growth, exports, and FDI in Namibia using quarterly data for the period of 1980:Q1 to 2013:Q4. The Autoregressive Distributed Lag approach to cointegration was used to carry out the study. The study used foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows as a proxy for FDI, …
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Measuring Welfare Effects of the US-China Trade War Using General Equilibrium Models
… the trade war between the United States (US) and China using the GTAP (Global Trade Analysis Project) CGE (Computable General Equilibrium) model. Five scenarios focused on economic decoupling are ana- lyzed: 1. Mutual tariff levels increased to 25%, 2. Mutual tariff levels increased to 45%, 3. …
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Padrões de desenvolvimento e suas consequências no processo saúde/ doença na classe trabalhadora: o caso do complexo industrial portuário de SUAPE
… aggravations to work, focusing on accidents and occupational diseases, arising from new industrial situation Northeast in the last decade. And to what extent this situation has been a way to discuss the terms that support the new development discourse, focusing on labor and social issues, …
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Three Essays on Trade Policy and Impacts of Regional Demographic Changes
… paper attempts to calculate the Korean import demand elasticities on a disaggregate level using three approaches-the traditional approach, household maximization approach, and GDP function approach. The traditional approach has no micro-foundations and the household maximization approach has cross …
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Is Sub-Saharan Africa likely to yield demographic dividends in the 21st century?
… study also examines the impact of human capital and savings on economic growth, as they are co-determinants of demographic dividends. The study uses dynamic panel data from 40 countries within the region over a period of 2000 to 2018, using GDP per capita to represent economic growth while …
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Lietuvos eksporto įtakos BVP augimui vertinimas /
… we know that as the economy grows, the country's GDP grows. The Lithuanian economy has undergone many changes - accession to the EU, economic crisis, economic recovery and its slowdown. This thesis values exports impact on GDP growth. Paper analyzes which groups of goods have the greatest impact …
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Evaluating the Theory of Cultural Tightness -Looseness: Measurement and Construct Validity
… indicators of economic, political, social, and religious regulation. A factor analysis with oblique rotation yielded two factors that were labeled government regulation and religious conservatism. These two factors correlated at .46. The construct validity of these macro-level measures of …
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