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Economic Growth Models
Research Guide
What is Economic Growth Models?
Economic Growth Models develop theoretical frameworks and empirical tests to explain long-term expansion of economies, focusing on drivers like innovation, human capital, institutions, and convergence in developing countries.
This subtopic includes endogenous growth theory and convergence hypotheses applied to emerging economies. Key studies analyze disparities (Kurian, 2007, 57 citations), green growth strategies (Kamal-Chaoui et al., 2011, 26 citations), and credit impacts (Amoo et al., 2017, 21 citations). Over 10 provided papers span 2007-2017 with 14-57 citations each.
Why It Matters
Economic Growth Models guide poverty reduction policies in developing nations, as seen in India's disparities analysis (Kurian, 2007) and Nigeria's credit-growth links (Amoo et al., 2017). Korea's urban green growth implementation informs sustainable strategies (Kamal-Chaoui et al., 2011). Pakistan's expenditure and foreign capital effects provide evidence for fiscal reforms (Muhammad et al., 2015; Ali, 2014). These models shape global prosperity initiatives by quantifying institutional and innovation drivers.
Key Research Challenges
Data Scarcity in Developing Economies
Reliable firm-level and sectoral data is often absent, complicating growth model estimation, as in Mozambique's manufacturing census (Schou and Cardoso, 2014, 21 citations). Merged provincial databases reveal undercounts. This limits cross-country convergence tests.
Endogeneity in Growth Drivers
Empirical identification struggles with reverse causality between credit, expenditure, and growth (Amoo et al., 2017; Muhammad et al., 2015). Vector Error Correction models address co-integration but not full simultaneity. Institutional variables exacerbate bias.
Sustainability Integration
Incorporating environmental degradation and green strategies into neoclassical models remains incomplete (Kamal-Chaoui et al., 2011; Haq et al., 2010). Family size perceptions link to resource pressures in developing contexts. Balanced growth metrics are underdeveloped.
Essential Papers
Widening economic & social disparities: implications for India.
N J Kurian · 2007 · PubMed · 57 citations
India is often characterized as an emerging economic super power. The huge demographic dividend, the high quality engineering and management talent, the powerful Indian diaspora and the emerging In...
Integrated Reporting Compliance With The Global Reporting Initiative Framework: An Analysis Of The South African Mining Industry
Tertia Hindley, Pieter Buys · 2012 · International Business & Economics Research Journal (IBER) · 46 citations
For all financial years ending on or after March 1st 2010, all companies listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange Ltd (JSE) have to provide an Integrated Report (as part of the JSEs listing requir...
The Determinants of Food Price Inflation in Pakistan: An Econometric Analysis
Faheem Ur Rehman, Dilawar Khan · 2015 · Advances in Economics and Business · 35 citations
This study seeks to identify the factors affecting food price inflation in Pakistan during 1990-2013.The study applied various econometric tests i.e.Augmented Dickey Fuller, Vector Error Correction...
Profitability and Value Addition in Cassava Processing in Buton District of Southeast Sulawesi Province, Indonesia
Haji Saediman, Asmiati Amini, Rosmawaty Basiru et al. · 2015 · Journal of Sustainable Development · 29 citations
This study was carried out to examine profitability of and value addition from cassava processing into kaopi based on the type of graters being used. A two-stage random sampling technique was emplo...
The Implementation of the Korean Green Growth Strategy in Urban Areas
Lamia Kamal-Chaoui, Fabio Grazi, Jongwan Joo et al. · 2011 · OECD regional development working papers · 26 citations
This report on the Korean Strategy for Green Growth and its implementation in urban areas assesses the contributions of sub-national governments to Korea's National Strategy for Green Growth and id...
The Impact of Private Sector Credit on Economic Growth in Nigeria
Ganiyu B. A. Amoo, Matthew I. Eboreime, Yusuf Adamu et al. · 2017 · Econstor (Econstor) · 21 citations
The paper determines empirically the local conditions and policy environment that influence the absorptive capacity of credit in the Nigerian economy for the period 1993:Q1 to 2013:Q4 using fully m...
How many manufacturing firms are there in Mozambique?
Søren Schou, Jose Andres Piedrahita Cardoso · 2014 · Working Paper Series · 21 citations
This paper addresses the issue of poor data on Mozambican manufacturing firms. A new dataset (the merged manufacturing database) is merged from provincial industrial databases from each of Mozambiq...
Reading Guide
Foundational Papers
Start with Kurian (2007, 57 citations) for disparity-growth tensions in emerging powers; Hindley and Buys (2012, 46 citations) for institutional reporting effects; Kamal-Chaoui et al. (2011, 26 citations) for green strategy implementation.
Recent Advances
Amoo et al. (2017) on credit absorptive capacity; Rehman and Khan (2015) on food inflation drivers; Muhammad et al. (2015) on expenditure impacts.
Core Methods
Time-series econometrics (Augmented Dickey-Fuller, VECM); least squares modifications; provincial database merging for firm-level growth analysis.
How PapersFlow Helps You Research Economic Growth Models
Discover & Search
Research Agent uses searchPapers and exaSearch to find papers on convergence in developing economies, then citationGraph on Kurian (2007) reveals 57-citation impact and related disparity studies. findSimilarPapers expands to green growth like Kamal-Chaoui et al. (2011).
Analyze & Verify
Analysis Agent applies readPaperContent to Amoo et al. (2017), runs runPythonAnalysis on fully modified least squares regressions for statistical verification, and uses verifyResponse (CoVe) with GRADE grading to confirm credit-growth elasticity in Nigeria data.
Synthesize & Write
Synthesis Agent detects gaps in sustainability-growth links across papers, flags contradictions between credit optimism (Amoo et al., 2017) and disparities (Kurian, 2007); Writing Agent uses latexEditText, latexSyncCitations for Kurian (2007), and latexCompile for model diagrams via exportMermaid.
Use Cases
"Replicate Pakistan food inflation determinants model from 1990-2013 data."
Research Agent → searchPapers(Rehman and Khan, 2015) → Analysis Agent → readPaperContent → runPythonAnalysis (Vector Error Correction with NumPy/pandas) → outputs replicated co-integration results and inflation drivers plot.
"Draft LaTeX review of green growth strategies in urban Korea."
Research Agent → findSimilarPapers(Kamal-Chaoui et al., 2011) → Synthesis → gap detection → Writing Agent → latexEditText(structured sections) → latexSyncCitations → latexCompile → outputs compiled PDF with strategy implementation table.
"Find code for Mozambique manufacturing firm growth models."
Research Agent → paperExtractUrls(Schou and Cardoso, 2014) → paperFindGithubRepo → githubRepoInspect → outputs Python scripts for merged database analysis and firm count estimations.
Automated Workflows
Deep Research workflow conducts systematic review of 50+ growth papers via searchPapers chains, producing structured reports on convergence hypotheses with citationGraph. DeepScan applies 7-step analysis to Amoo et al. (2017) regressions, using CoVe checkpoints and runPythonAnalysis. Theorizer generates endogenous growth extensions from disparities (Kurian, 2007) and green strategies (Kamal-Chaoui et al., 2011).
Frequently Asked Questions
What defines Economic Growth Models?
Theoretical and empirical frameworks explaining economy-wide expansion via innovation, human capital, institutions, and convergence, tested in developing contexts like India (Kurian, 2007).
What are core methods in this subtopic?
Vector Error Correction, Johansen co-integration (Rehman and Khan, 2015), fully modified least squares (Amoo et al., 2017), and merged database construction (Schou and Cardoso, 2014).
What are key papers?
Foundational: Kurian (2007, 57 citations) on India disparities; Hindley and Buys (2012, 46 citations) on integrated reporting. Recent: Amoo et al. (2017, 21 citations) on Nigeria credit.
What open problems exist?
Integrating sustainability without data biases (Haq et al., 2010), resolving endogeneity in credit-growth links (Amoo et al., 2017), and scaling firm data for convergence tests (Schou and Cardoso, 2014).
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