DOES NATION BUILDING SPUR ECONOMIC GROWTH?

Does broadband Internet access actually spur economic growth?

In this paper I attempt to answer a relatively straightforward question: does broadband Internet access spur economic growth? Here, broadband refers to any Internet connection that is “always on and faster than the traditional dial-up access.” [1], and economic growth refers to gross domestic product (GDP) of individual countries. Intuitively, it seems clear that access to broadband Internet sh...

Does financial liberalization spur growth?

We show that equity market liberalizations, on average, lead to a 1% increase in annual real economic growth. The effect is robust to alternative definitions of liberalization and does not reflect variation in the world business cycle. The effect also remains intact when an exogenous measure of growth opportunities is included in the regression. We find that capital account liberalization also ...

Does Inflation Harm Economic Growth In Iran?

Nation - building

Nations stay together when citizens share enough values and preferences. Homogeneity amongst people can be built with education, teaching a common language to facilitate communication, but also by brute force such as prohibiting local cultures. Democracies and dictators have different incentives when it comes to choosing how much and by what means to homogenize the population. We study and we c...

Does Foreign Direct Investment Enhance Economic Growth: Insight from Bangladesh

This study deals with foreign direct investment and its impact on economic growth in the context of Bangladesh. The main objective of our study is to evaluate the impact of FDI on the economy of Bangladesh based on the secondary data covering year 2013-2017. This study considers FDI as a dependent variable and GDP, export and investment as independent variables and is used as the indicators of ...