One of the main advantages of EU membership is increased trade, which both current and prospective EU members expect to boost growth. While economic theory predicts that trade openness raises income levels and may even promote long-run economic growth, the empirical evidence has been mixed. This...

The role of infrastructure in agriculture is extremely helpful in its growth in a productive way. It has its impact in developmental activities, quality of life, and ecological sustainability, wiping out inter-regional disparities among states. It can minimize the hazardous factors like cyclone,...

The farmers were in a distressed condition devoid of adequate irrigation, institutional credit and the consequential impact on the low yield and/or no yield and increasing debt burden. Further, the problem has been aggravated by tenancy in Telangana and coastal Andhra regions. It was found that...

The cointegration result shows that money supply and fiscal policy of various state governments positively and real GDP negatively influences price instability in India during the period from 1960-61 to 1999-2000, which supports the findings of most of the earlier empirical studies and the...

For a decade now, ecological economists have been pointing out the harmful effects of highly mobile capital flows and the consequent governing of international trade by the principle of absolute advantage. While it is possible for a direct macro constraint on capital flows to restore the more...

This study empirically investigates the impact of the unemployment rate on the degree of aggregate income tax evasion in the U.S. over the 1975-1997 period, on the assumption that if the unemployment rate rises, tax evasion will also tend to increase in order to sustain consumption needs. After...

This study empirically examines the impact of the federal government budget deficit on the nominal interest rate yield on U.S. Treasury notes over the 1979-2001 period. In a system that includes the monetary base, the civilian labor force unemployment rate, the ex ante real 52 week Treasury bill...

The study proposes to examine the association between growth in employment and economic growth. In the course of the study, we also examine the relationship between employment growth and other variables like labour productivity, capital intensity per worker etc. with a view to form hypotheses...

Theories have proved that investment and unemployment are inversely proportional. The Government has laid emphasis on fiscal control and suppressing inflation in the economy, thus defying the relevance of classical theory of Keyens. Unlike China, Japan and United States, India has not laid much...

The implementation of Structural Adjustment Programs (SAPs) in the case of Ghana has in turn been met with a lot of criticism. It is difficult to make a clear connection between SAPs and intensified gender bias. However, there appears to be some strong indication that at least some of the...