With the reforms launched and pursued by different political regimes at the center, globalization has become a reality. Its impact on various segments of the economy is felt differently by different sections of the society. This article analyzes the growth experience in India since the 1991...

This article attempts to capture the essential flavor of the third Lionel Robbins Memorial Lecture (1989) rendered by Paul Krugman (of the MIT), currently a leading figure in the field of international trade and finance. The paper draws attention to the fresh insights shown by Krugman into the...

In this paper an attempt is made to analyze the productivity trends of 14 major states and all India textile industry for pre and post liberalization periods using Divisia total factor productivity index methodology. The results reveal that for most of the states the TFP growth rates are...

Ghana has adopted the Poverty Reduction Strategy, which emphasizes increased focus on poverty reduction in the design and implementation of its policies. Trade liberalization is one of the ways through which poverty could be reduced. However, trade liberalization results in decreased fiscal...

This Paper analyses the various issues of foreign capital investment in India and estimates dynamic panel data models more specifically the Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) technique by using data for 300 companies for the period 1984-85 to 2003-04, for empirically identifying the...

The Indian steel industry has been showing tremendous improvements in terms of growth in capacity, production and exports and has become a major competitor in the global arena, thanks to the forces of deregulation and globalization. Keeping in view the current performance, the future looks...

This study examines the debate about the growth of government expenditures in Botswana. The study outlines the pattern and rate of government expenditure growth and then presents some empirical findings on the determinants of government expenditures in Botswana during 1980-2000. Previous studies...

This paper uses both the cointegration and a variant of the general to specific approaches to develop a consumption function for Fiji with data from 1970 to 2002. We found that when the specification of the consumption function is reparametrized, the simpler (general to specific) approach gives...

This paper seeks to analyse Chinese rural male and female labour participation and labour supply behaviour. The question is addressed by means of a dedicated fieldwork survey of 450 rural households in a clustering of nine villages in Xinmin County located in the north-east province of Liaoning....

This paper uses the method of dynamic OLS (DOLS) in conjunction with cointegration procedure to examine the degree of international capital mobility for 25 developing countries. Specifically, three analyses are undertaken. First, the time series properties of domestic saving and investment are...