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Do microfinance banks’ activities affect Nigeria’s economic development? [PDF]
Microfinance banks were set up to provide financial services to poor people to reduce the rate of poverty and improve the quality of living in the country.
Adegbola Olubukola Otekunrin+4 more
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Infrastructure and Economic Growth [PDF]
I estimate the effect that growth in countries’ GDP per capita has on the growth rate of infrastructure. In order to extract exogenous variation in GDP per capita growth, I use the growth of the international oil price multiplied with countries’ GDP shares of oil net-exports as an instrumental variable.
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Developing countries are facing the problem of environmental degradation. Environmental degradation is caused by the use of non-renewable energy consumptions for economic growth but the consequences of environmental degradation cannot be ignored.
Muhammad Kamran Khan+2 more
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Using Economic Instruments to Fix the Liability of Polluters in India
This review paper highlights the informational requirements for the effective use of environmental policy instruments to achieve ambient standards of pollution in India.
Sukanya Das, MN Murty, Kavita Sardana
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Adaptive economic growth [PDF]
This paper develops an evolutionary theory of adaptive growth, understood as a product of structural change and economic self-transformation, based upon processes that are closely connected with but not reducible to the growth of knowledge. The dominant connecting theme is enterprise, the innovative variations it generates and the multiple connections ...
Metcalfe, J. Stan+2 more
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Groundwater Extraction, Agriculture and Poverty in Godavari River Basin
This study analyses the relationship between access to groundwater irrigation, agricultural development, and poverty in Godavari river basin with heterogeneous hydrogeological resource conditions, and their implications for resource governance, using ...
Jeena T Srinivasan +1 more
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The missing middle phenomenon in Indian manufacturing sector: myths or realities? [PDF]
Purpose – This study attempts to examine the missing middle (MM) phenomena in the context of the Indian manufacturing sector using the unit level information from the database of Ministry of Corporate Affair, Government of India.
P. C. Parida+2 more
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The study focuses on the application of a nonparametric methodology for evaluating the sustainability of retrofitting interventions to be applied on different typologies of buildings and different climate zones of the Mediterranean area. The paper starts
Monica Cariola+2 more
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Innovation and Economic Growth [PDF]
The literature on economic growth has identified knowledge expansion as a key propellant. Early research derived this conclusion from the residual that remained after the growth contributions from capital and labour had been accounted for. Later modifications expanded the concept of fixed capital to include intangible capital. The underlying drivers of
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Biodiversity policy beyond economic growth
Increasing evidence—synthesized in this paper—shows that economic growth contributes to biodiversity loss via greater resource consumption and higher emissions.
I. Otero+21 more
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