Motivated by the robust empirical evidence on the positive growth and poverty eradication outcomes of public investment in rural infrastructure, this paper investigates variations in utilization by subnational state governments in India of a recent non-concessional lending facility for financing...

This article aims at discovering a coherent method for estimating country risk for non-developed countries, determining the components and most significant factors involved and thus avoiding the “black boxes” represented by external agency ratings. The data used form a panel of 40...

There is a large research literature which quantifies the important contributions of public, private and human capital to economic growth and poverty reduction. However, studies based on the endogenous growth model tend to exclude the effects of relative prices on economic growth. This paper...

This paper utilises OECD bi-annual data from the Economic Outlook database to estimate the extent of hidden unemployment in selected OECD countries. The labour force variations attributable to an economy operating at below full employment level are computed by using a regression modelling...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between savings and investment. The results reveal that there is unidirectional causality from savings to investment. From variance decomposition method, we observe that with a lag of three periods, change in savings effects 85% of...

This paper examines the major determinants of GDP growth in Iran using annual time series data spanning from 1960 to 2003. The Iranian economy has been subject to a multitude of structural changes and regime shifts during the sample period. Thus, time series properties of the data are first...

. This study examines the time series properties of long-term Turkish macroeconomic data by using the sequential Dickey-Fuller type and the minimum Lagrange multiplier (LM) type endogenous break(s) unit root tests. Zivot and Andrews (1992) and Lumsdaine and Papel (1997) tests do not provide...

During the last decade, unemployment rates in the European Union have been higher than in other regions, e.g., the United States, and these are even higher in Spain. It has been argued that the different degrees of labour mobility between the European and the American labour markets can account...

This article aims at investigating the econometric relationship between market driven reforms and the structural characteristics of employment after the implementation of market reforms in the context of deregulation of interest rates and exchange rate in Nigeria in the late 1980s. Following the...

Economists have proffered myriads of causes of the debt problem faced by less developed countries (LDCs). This paper uses the panel data technique to investigate the fundamental causes of the debt problem among primary commodity dependent LDCs. The results show a strong link between high levels...