QUALITY OF ECONOMIC GROWTH

Economic growth
• increase in the amount of the goods and services produced
by an economy over time
• measured as the percent rate of increase in real gross
domestic product or real GDP (inflationadjusted term)
> Growth rate of GDP in Year 2
= GDP (Year 2) – GDP (Year 1) GDP (Year 1) × 100
• Real GD[r]

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Vietnam has seen major economic growth over the past three decades, and
significant progress in reducing poverty. It is a densely populated country that, in
the past 30 years, has had to recover from the ravages of war, the loss of financial
support from the old Soviet Bloc, and the rigidities of a[r]

In our economy today, household production economy accounts for a very important position, and its potential growth is also very large. To expand the scale of production and innovate the equipment as well as engage in economic relations, the producers definitely need capital. However, their own sour[r]

Secondly, the organization and implementation of UI are in synchronization withbetter coordination between sectors and levels.Thirdly, effectively implementing international projects in unemploymentinsurance3.3.2 Limitations and causes in unemployment insurance managementFirstly, a number [r]

In 1986, the Government of Vietnam initiated a transition from the existing centrally planned
economy to a marketoriented economy where the Government would keep playing a leading
role. These renovation (doi moi) policies were very successful at generating economic
growth and reducing poverty. In th[r]

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In this paper, we aimed at examining the nature of the impact of external debt on economic growth in 44 SubSaharan African countries using an unbalanced dataset that ranges from 1970 to 2002. Instead of using the annual data, which was subject to a serious autocorrelation problem, we calculated[r]

A Country N had higher average economic growth in the last five years than Country Q B The country economic risk rating is based on the difference between maximum and minimum economic gr[r]

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The worldwide energy scene is facing a triple crisis. First of all, there is a
crisis of supply: the existing and foreseeable capacity cannot assure the
supply of energy under all circumstances, taking into account the growth
of random phenomena, whether they are technical, accidental, politi
cal or[r]

NEW CONTRIBUTION OF DISSERTATION

PhD student: Khamsen SISAVONG
Topic: A Study on the Impact of Foreign Direct Investment on Economic Development of Lao P.D.R.
Supervisor: Assoc.Prof.Dr. Nguyễn Thị Tuyết Mai


Investigation into the effects of FDI on the economies of host countries is considered t[r]

Land is a scarce resource increasingly affected by the competition of mutually exclusive uses. Fertile land in rural areas becomes scarcer due to population growth, pollution, erosion and desertification, effects of climate change, urbanization etc. On the remaining land, local, national and interna[r]

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In this chapter, we look at the performance of SEZs in Africa, based on case
study research and firmlevel surveys of six African zone programs—in
Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Nigeria, Senegal, and Tanzania—complemented
by additional research on two programs each in Asia and Latin America:
Bangladesh and V[r]

Government policies affect relative prices in the economy and thereby transmit
profit incentives to private investors. Economywide policies convey incentives to
investors that affect whether to invest based on perceptions of risk, and in
Zimbabwe, economywide incentives have tended to discourage ove[r]

argue that improvements in policy (as measured by the CPIA) can result merely from agovernment implementing a set of prior actions that were already planned or underwaybefore any discussion of a DPL began. However, prior actions tend to include “de jure”reforms - such as passing a law[r]

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scientists need to be extensively involved in the transfer of informal knowledge tothe private firms, they have greater motivation to start firms. The chapter by Bhattand Narayanan suggests that the entrepreneur decides on an appropriate technological strategy, whether to choose in-house R&am[r]