Neighborhood Growth Effects : An Annual Panel Data Approach

Research suggests that there are neighborhood effects in the form of correlations between countries' growth and that of their neighbors. The data in this study suggests that closer countries - those with which country shares a border or those within a smaller radius - are more correlated than t...

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Main Author:	Behar, Alberto
Language:	English
Published:	Washington, DC: World Bank 2012
Subjects:	World Development Report 2009
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/9176

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spelling	okr-10986-91762021-04-23T14:02:44Z Neighborhood Growth Effects : An Annual Panel Data Approach Behar, Alberto World Development Report 2009 Research suggests that there are neighborhood effects in the form of correlations between countries' growth and that of their neighbors. The data in this study suggests that closer countries - those with which country shares a border or those within a smaller radius - are more correlated than the broader region or the rest of the world. We also discovered evidence of large asymmetries, with the correlation the decline in neighborhood per capita GDP far exceeding that for increases in neighborhood per capita GDP. 2012-06-26T15:40:29Z 2012-06-26T15:40:29Z 2009 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/9176 English CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank Washington, DC: World Bank Africa
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description	Research suggests that there are neighborhood effects in the form of correlations between countries' growth and that of their neighbors. The data in this study suggests that closer countries - those with which country shares a border or those within a smaller radius - are more correlated than the broader region or the rest of the world. We also discovered evidence of large asymmetries, with the correlation the decline in neighborhood per capita GDP far exceeding that for increases in neighborhood per capita GDP.
author	Behar, Alberto
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title	Neighborhood Growth Effects : An Annual Panel Data Approach
title_short	Neighborhood Growth Effects : An Annual Panel Data Approach
title_full	Neighborhood Growth Effects : An Annual Panel Data Approach
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Neighborhood Growth Effects : An Annual Panel Data Approach

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