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Institutional Quality, Human Capital and Resource Curse Hypothesis (Case Study: Petroleum Exporting Countries) [PDF]
پژوهشهای اقتصادی, 2012 Empirical studies imply that natural resource abundance plays an important role on economic growth in natural-resource-rich countries. The growth literature shows that human capital, education, technology progress and institutional quality are effective ...
Yousef mohammadzadeh +2 more
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Is There a Resource Curse for Private Liberties? [PDF]
International Studies Quarterly, 2018 The existing literature on the political resource curse focuses on whether oil wealth hinders the transition to democracy. In this study, I examine whether oil wealth negatively affects the private rights of the individual. I argue that petroleum-rich governments are subject to less pressure to protect freedom of movement, freedom of religion, the ...
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Mechanisms of Resource Curse, Economic Policy and Growth [PDF]
This paper analyzes economic policies in resource rich countries and various mechanisms of resource curse leading to a potentially inefficient use of resources.
Polterovich, Victor +2 more
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The minerals boom and Australia's 'resource curse' [PDF]
, 2008 Resource wealth in Australia is often presented as an asset, waiting to be exploited. Reflecting this, the recent resource boom is unquestioned indeed celebrated--as a great windfall for the Australian people.
Goodman, J. +3 more
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Graph Neural Network‐Based Prediction of Building Energy Consumption
Energy Science &Engineering, EarlyView.A graph neural network that encodes a multi‐zone building as a graph accurately predicts hourly cooling and heating loads across three distinct climates, outperforming Random Forest and XGBoost baselines and serving as a fast surrogate to EnergyPlus simulations for scalable building energy management.
Ali Maboudi Reveshti +4 more
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EconomiesThis study examines how institutional quality (INST) affects the contribution of natural resource endowments (NREs) to citizens’ happiness and life satisfaction.
Clement Olalekan Olaniyi
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Point and Risk estImation Using an enSemble of Models for Nowcasting: PRISM‐Now
Journal of Forecasting, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We propose PRISM‐Now, a novel ensemble forecasting system for near‐term GDP projection. Recognizing that relevant economic information evolves over time, we treat forecasts from multiple base models as draws from a mixture distribution of “good” and “bad” estimates, whose composition changes continuously and cannot be identified ex ante.
Beomseok Seo, Hyungbae Cho, Dongjae Lee
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Usability of a gamified antibiotic resistance awareness mobile application: A qualitative evaluation
IET Networks, EarlyView., 2022 The purpose of this study is to reveal the findings from the usability evaluation of an antibiotic resistance awareness app (SEDAR) app and present the necessary critical revisions made to improve the usability further. This study adopted guerrilla testing, observation, and retrospective probing methods to evaluate the usability of the SEDAR app ...
Ummul Hanan Mohamad +2 more
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Can the resource curse be avoided? An empirical examination of the nexus between crude oil price and economic growth. [PDF]
SN Bus Econ, 2022 Miamo CW, Achuo ED.
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Financial Literacy, Financial Development and Economic Growth
International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT While significant progress has been made in exploring the importance of financial literacy, its impact on economic growth and financial development from a macroeconomic point of view remains thinly understood. This paper provides fresh evidence on the relationship between financial literacy, financial development and economic growth.
Spyridon Boikos +2 more
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