ECONOMIC GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT Introduction Economies grow and develop‚ they expand and advance‚ and they progress and prosper. There are phases when they decline too‚ and there are economies that experience continuous decay. If one considers long stretches of human history‚ one knows that economies (civilizations) disappeared altogether. We will not take into account such long stretches of time. We shall not consider too distant a past either. We will leave them to historians‚ may be‚ economic
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first proponent of the economic value of education. He emphasized on how education helps to increase the productivity of the labour force in various ways‚ including both general education and technical training. He was the one who introduced for the first time the concept of human capital. Later other well known economists (Malthus‚ 1798; Mill‚ 1848; Marx‚ 1878; Marshall‚ 1890; Schumpeter‚ 1934; Harrod‚ 1939 & Domar 1946; et al) placed special attention to the economic growth process. During the second
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Impact of Foreign Direct Investment on Economic Growth Hanoi‚ 19 March‚ 2014 Contents Abstract 2 I. Introduction 2 1. Vietnam Economic Growth: 3 1.1 Definition of "Economic Growth": 3 1.2 Indicators of Vietnam economic growth: 3 2. Foreign Direct Investment: 8 2.1. Definition and classification: 8 2.2. Factors affecting FDI flows: 8 2.3. FDI in Vietnam: 10 3. FDI and Economic Growth – The Two Linkages: 10 II. Literature review
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answer. Eyeballing any cross sectional data on growth across countries shows that countries grow at different rates. Many theories try to explain this phenomenon with emphasis with capital accumulation being one of them. I will start by developing the standard neoclassical growth model as developed by Solow(1956)[1]. I will then proceed to discuss the extensions that have been made to this basic model in an attempt to better understand actual growth figures‚ for e.g. the standard neoclassical model
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Economic growth is the overall growth in an economy. Gross National Product and Gross Domestic Product are the normal measures of economic growth. Because growth can come in many ways‚ GNP and GDP are not particularly good measures. More so‚ economic growth can occur from having more people in an economy. If economic growth occurs more slowly than the population growth‚ then there can be economic growth‚ but the average person is less well-off. As economic growth is measured as the annual percent
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he fear is widerspread among environmentalists that free trade increases economic growth and that growth harms the environment. That fear is misplaced. Growth enables governments to tax and to raise resources for a variety of objectives‚ including the atatement of pollution and the general protection of the environment. Without such revenues‚ little can be achieved‚ no matter how pure one’s motives may be. "Marathon runner threatens to pull out of 2008 Olympics fearing Beijing’s air quality"
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was designed to investigate the impact of stock market returns on foreign portfolio investment in Nigerian. The objectives of the research are: to identify the relationship between foreign portfolio investment and stock market return‚ inflation rate and stock market returns and to determine the direction of causality between foreign portfolio investment and stock market returns in Nigeria. The data were collected from Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) statistical bulletin. The data were consequentially
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The ultimate engine of economic growth is new technology. According to economists‚ the growth of output per capita is a fairly recent phenomenon. This can be attributed to all the new technology people have discovered in the past few centuries‚ causing output growth to surge and accelerate faster than ever before in history. The result of all these ingenious‚ innovative inventions has been a total revolution in the way people live their lives. After examining the multitude of invention descriptions
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include economic circumstances‚ lack of capable guardians‚ socialization of an individual‚ social disorganization‚ status frustration‚ gender inequality‚ opportunity‚ and masculinity. Each one of these variables is important because it shows how social forces push an individual to be deviant and to engage
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One should start by saying that economic growth of Japan after the end of the World War II was enormous. It resulted in Japanese economic ascension making Japan one of the few world most economically advanced nations. From the savage destruction brought during World War II. Japan has done wonders to create the strong economy it has today. Japan had managed to advance originally via proper government industry cooperation initiatives‚ strong work ethic of the Japanese people‚ adoption of new technology
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