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Economic growth, policy reforms, household livelihoods and environmental degradation in rural Ethiopia: towards an integrated model of economic transformation University of Antwerp
Economic growth in the Roman Mediterranean world: an early good-bye to Malthus? Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Economic growth and broadband access : the European urban-rural digital divide Ghent University
This paper estimates the regional effects of high-speed broadband coverage on economic growth in a panel of 1348 regions across all European Union Member States between 2011 and 2018. We distinguish between different connectivity speed levels by aggregating the available regional data across all existing broadband technologies, and investigate how regional differences in the contribution of broadband coverage to real economic growth can ...
Energy consumption, carbon emissions and economic growth nexus in Bangladesh: cointegration and dynamic causality analysis Ghent University
Framing the health workforce agenda beyond economic growth Institute of Tropical Medicine
The fourth Global Forum on Human Resources (HRH) for Health was held in Ireland November 2017. Its Dublin declaration mentions that strategic investments in the health workforce could contribute to sustainable and inclusive growth and are an imperative to shared prosperity. What is remarkable about the investment frame for health workforce development is that there is little debate about the type of economic development to be pursued. This ...
Dynamic modeling of causal relationship between energy consumption, CO2 emissions and economic growth in India Ghent University
Does debt predict growth? An empirical analysis of the relationship between total debt and economic output Hasselt University
Although the recent global financial crisis has stimulated a vast amount of research on the impact of public debt on economic growth and also increasingly on the role of private credit, the total levels of indebtedness of an economy have largely been ignored. This paper studies the impact of the total level of and increases in debt-to-GDP on economic growth for 26 developed countries in the short, medium and longer term. We analyse whether we ...
Foreign Direct Investment as an Engine for Economic Growth and Human Development: A Review of the Arguments and Empirical Evidence KU Leuven
The liberalisation process in developing and transition countries in the 1980s and 1990s was accompanied by an exponential increase in Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) inflows. The interest of developing countries in attracting FDI is based on the belief that FDI contributes importantly to economic growth and to the overall development of the host country. Theoretical arguments state that FDI contributes to economic growth both directly – through ...
Multinational firms in (Global) Cities: Mimicry, Knowledge networks, and Economic Growth KU Leuven
This dissertation examines the dynamic interrelationship between MNEs and cities. First, it examines cities as MNEs' foreign direct investment location choice and imitation processes within these FDI location choices. Imitation not only enhances the attractiveness of the city by contributing to the generation of agglomeration economies and by encouraging additional imitation, but it also contributes to the further development of the ...