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Akbar Nikkhah Sarnaghi; . .; Saeed Daei Karimzadeh
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The relationship between economic growth, trade openness of the economy and the quality of the environment in developing countries is one of the most important topics in the economic literature and in recent years has been one of the challenges for countries in terms of economic growth policies and trade ...
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The relationship between economic growth, trade openness of the economy and the quality of the environment in developing countries is one of the most important topics in the economic literature and in recent years has been one of the challenges for countries in terms of economic growth policies and trade expansion. Foreigners have suffered from the degradation and deterioration of the quality of the environment. In this study, this relationship is examined in developing countries, including 27 countries, including Iran during the years 2000 to 2020 using the GMM method. The results of the aggregate test indicate the existence of a long-run equilibrium relationship between the variables. According to the results of the estimate, the variables of trade openness and carbon dioxide emissions have a positive effect on economic growth. Carbon dioxide has a negative effect on foreign trade. On the other hand, the variables of economic growth and trade openness have a positive and significant effect on carbon dioxide emissions. Therefore, appropriate policies to protect the environment, along with policies of economic growth and trade expansion, in addition to economic growth can lead to improved environmental quality...
Akbar Nikkhah Sarnaghi; Karim Azarbaiejani; saeed Daei-Karimzadeh
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The quality of the environment and its protection is one of the important issues in the field of management of countries. Therefore, all countries, along with growth and development policies, try to prevent environmental degradation by enacting laws and regulations in the national sphere and also by ...
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The quality of the environment and its protection is one of the important issues in the field of management of countries. Therefore, all countries, along with growth and development policies, try to prevent environmental degradation by enacting laws and regulations in the national sphere and also by creating international agreements. In the meantime, in order to adopt appropriate policies in the field of economic growth and environmental quality, conducting more detailed studies can help policy makers in this regard. The purpose of this study is to investigate the interrelationships of three important variables of economic growth, degree of trade openness and carbon dioxide emissions in the group of developed countries. For this purpose, the annual data of 29 developed countries for the period 2017-2000 from the World Bank website have been used. The econometric approach used in this work is to estimate the relationships of these variables using dynamic panel data using the GMM method. The estimation results show that by increasing the degree of commercial openness and carbon dioxide emissions, economic growth is enhanced. Venice Economic growth also has a positive effect on the volume of foreign trade, but carbon dioxide emissions limit it. On the other hand, economic growth leads to increased carbon dioxide emissions and the growth of foreign trade reduces the intensity of carbon dioxide emissions.
Economic Growth
Behzad Maleki Hassanvand; Mohammad Jafari; Shahram Fatahi; Hadi Ghafari
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The aim of this paper is examining the simultaneous impact of good governance and government spending on economic growth in MENA countries. To estimate model, we've used GMM method during 2002-2016. The results show that good governance (weighted average of six indexes) and government spending ...
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The aim of this paper is examining the simultaneous impact of good governance and government spending on economic growth in MENA countries. To estimate model, we've used GMM method during 2002-2016. The results show that good governance (weighted average of six indexes) and government spending have positive and significant effect on economic growth. GDP last period and trade openness variable have positive and significant effect on economic growth. Inflation variable has negative and significant effect and private investment variable has positive and insignificant effect on economic growth. The effect of both economic growth and government spending is positive and significant. Good governance index resulted from combination of existing six indexes by Principle Components Model, has been estimated in another model and it indicates positive relationship with more effect on economic growth.
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Mandana Ghafoori Sadatieh; Mahdi Khoda Parast Mashhadi; Mostafa Salimifar; Mostafa Kazemi
Volume 8, Issue 29 , December 2017, , Pages 31-44
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This study aims to measure the external efficiency of formal education and then evaluating the effects of economic growth in Iran during 1957 to 2013. External efficiency, is the responsibility of educational system to social system in term of individual, economic, political and cultural dimensions. ...
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This study aims to measure the external efficiency of formal education and then evaluating the effects of economic growth in Iran during 1957 to 2013. External efficiency, is the responsibility of educational system to social system in term of individual, economic, political and cultural dimensions. The research method to measure the relative efficiency is the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) method with the input-oriented and constant returns to scale, and efficient units are ranked using Anderson-Peterson (AP). Using the econometric method of GMM to evaluate the effect of the external efficiency of education on the economic growth. Results showed that in 85 percentages of examined years, external efficiency of education is acheived. Inputs that affect respectively on the external efficiency are educational equity, technology infrastructure, education expenditures and quality. Outputs that affect respectively on the external efficiency are freedom, environment protection, family sustainability and establishment. For inefficient units, the most of output shortage related to security and maximum output surplus is for education expenditures. External efficiency of education, labor and capital have a positive effect on economic growth in Iran and external efficiency of education is the cause of economic growth.
Pourya Esfahani
Volume 7, Issue 27 , July 2017, , Pages 157-170
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Corruption is defined as the manipulation of power by private and public authorities to achieve personal and individual goals. Many articles have been written about the factors formed corruption that a wide range of variables to be included. In this article we will examine the role of a factor in the ...
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Corruption is defined as the manipulation of power by private and public authorities to achieve personal and individual goals. Many articles have been written about the factors formed corruption that a wide range of variables to be included. In this article we will examine the role of a factor in the corruption forming that had not been studied yet. This factor is combining economic activities. The combining economic activities is defined by using of the ratio of the industrial value added in GDP and the ratio of the services sector value added in GDP. Also, the main purpose of this paper is to study the effect of combining economic activities on corruption, using the data for 60 developing countries from 1995 to 2014. In this regard, we use six variables including corruption, government size, democracy, GDP per capita, the ratio of the value added in the industrial sector to the GDP and the ratio of the value added in the service sector to the GDP. Our hypothesis is that combining economic activities is effective on corruption. In this paper, 2 GMM models are estimated. The results indicate that variables of democracy, GDP per capita and the ratio of the industrial sector to GDP has a positive relationship with corruption index. That is, an increase in these variables reduces the level of corruption. Also, the variables of government size and the ratio of service sector to GDP have a negative relationship with corruption index which means an increase in these two variables raises the level of corruption.
Mirnaser Mirbagheri Hir; Farzad Rahimzadeh; Sayyed Rashed Safavi
Volume 4, Issue 16 , November 2014, , Pages 120-105
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In many countries, achieving to the millennium development goals, such as sustainable economic growth, poverty reduction and human development enhancement are their important priorities. One of these goals is to improve the human development index that is used to compare the level of welfare. This study, ...
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In many countries, achieving to the millennium development goals, such as sustainable economic growth, poverty reduction and human development enhancement are their important priorities. One of these goals is to improve the human development index that is used to compare the level of welfare. This study, using the annual data of selected MENA countries from 2000-2012 and by applying Dynamic Panel Data and GMM estimators, wants to determine the factors that affect on human development. For this purpose, trade variable (percapita import, percapita export and per capita trade) has been used in three separated models. The results of the model with n-step GMM estimator of Arellano and Bond (1991) indicate that in all models, trade has positive and significant impact on human development. If percapita import, export and trade are considered as explanatory variables in the model, the increase of $ 10,000 in these variables, will increase human development index by 0.029, 0.024, and 0.025 respectively. Based on the results, educational expenditures, per capita health expenditure and foreign direct investment have also positive and significant effects on human development.
Sohrab Delangizan; Mohammad Sharif Karimi; Zeinab Khalvandi
Volume 4, Issue 15 , August 2014, , Pages 104-87
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Financial corruption affects on economy’s health via different channels which the most important channel is distortions in the allocation of resources. On the other hand, the level of knowledge-based economy also can affect on behaviour of factors of production. An important question is whether ...
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Financial corruption affects on economy’s health via different channels which the most important channel is distortions in the allocation of resources. On the other hand, the level of knowledge-based economy also can affect on behaviour of factors of production. An important question is whether the level of knowledge-based economy can affect the relationship between corruption and economic growth? This study investigates the effect of financial corruption on economic growth for 138 countries over the period 2000 - 2011 by using the consolidated corruption perception indicator, the level of knowledge based economy indicator and economic growth and a dynamic panel model which called Generalized method of moments (GMM). The results of classification of countries show that, in the groups with high knowledge-based economy indicator, control of financial corruption has positive impact on economic growth but in the groups with moderate knowledge-based economy indicator, control of corruption, has negative impact on economic growth. Also, the results show that in the first group of countries, stability of corruption control policies has a positive impact on economic growth but in the second group of countries, it has a negative effect.
Zahra Afshari; Shamsolah Shirin Bakhsh; Seyedeh Nesar Ebrahimi
Volume 2, Issue 8 , December 2012, , Pages 50-37
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Government size has negative and positive impact on economic growth. In this paper, we conduct an analysis with dealing the impact of government size on human development index (HDI). The regression will be empirically analyzed using generalized method of moments (GMM) with two staged least ...
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Government size has negative and positive impact on economic growth. In this paper, we conduct an analysis with dealing the impact of government size on human development index (HDI). The regression will be empirically analyzed using generalized method of moments (GMM) with two staged least squares in a panel data framework for 30 developed and 34 developing nations for 1980-2009. The impact of government size (measured by consumption and investment expenditures) on HDI is studied. The results reveal that the optimal size of government consumption expenditure on HDI in developed countries is greater than the developing countries. While, in developing countries the government investment reveals a linear and increasing patterns.
