The HIV/AIDS is a pandemic that is engulfing many developing countries of Africa, particularly South Africa, Ethiopia, Botswana, Swaziland and Uganda. Eritrea, a young nation in Africa has over 70,000 adults currently infected with HIV/AIDS and the number is progressively increasing. Nationally,...

Following the nationalization of 20 major commercial banks in 1969 and 1980, the government followed policies of financial repression up to the 1980s. During this period the public sector commercial banks had rapid expansion of branches, especially in the rural and semiurban areas and had...

Despite the availability of extensive research on Wagner s Law, a systematic empirical testing of the hypothesis in the context of developing countries, especially South-East Asian nations, is still lacking. Thus, the current paper attempts to reduce this gap and chooses Malaysia as a case study...

India has a multidimensional relationship with the European Union (EU). EU is our largest trading partner, the biggest source of our foreign direct investment, a major supplier of our developmental aid, an important source of technology, and also home to a large and influential Indian diaspora....

: The paper examines the elasticities of export demand for the Philippines using Johansen time series technique. The results of the study suggest that the income elasticity of exports is unity and the relative price elasticity is significant with expected sign. These long run income and relative...

This paper examines the progress of Ukraine on its way to market reforms and European Economic Integration. Proceeding from the experience of Central and Eastern European Countries (CEEC), the processes of Ukraine's economic liberalization and approximation of its level of economic development...

The paper investigates using the empirical version of Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) the sectoral growth relation of the major sectors to the national GDP growth of the Indian economy for the period 1980-81 to 2003-04. The results indicate that the Indian agriculture sector receives...

This paper examines the effect of privatization on various economic issues in the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) with reference to Ethiopia. Ethiopia, after two decades of communism, has implemented the privatization program as one of the economic reform measures targeting sustainable economic...

: In this paper, the linearity and stationarity of the real exchange rates of India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka are investigated using formal linearity and the recently developed nonlinear stationary test procedures. Results obtained show that these real exchange rates are stationary despite...

This paper attempts to review the key issues related to the quantification of the trade effects of standards, especially the Agreement on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Standards (SPS) on agro-food exports. After reviewing some of the key empirical studies on the topic, the paper goes further and...