The relationship between financial development and economic growth has attracted a great deal of attention among economists and policy makers alike. The economy of Qatar did not receive much attention in the empirical literature. This study attempts at filling this gap in economic literature,...

This paper investigates the determinants of economic growth in Malaysia. Trade openness, foreign direct investment, government development expenditure and gross fixed capital formation are used as indicators of economic growth. The study used time series data for the period 1970 to 2010. The...

The main objective of present study is to investigate the implications of intellectual property rights (IPR) protection on foreign direct investment and economic growth in Malaysia. We used the ARDL bounds testing approach to cointegration for long run relationship between the variables....

Inefficient pricing of energy products has become common feature of governments in many oil exporting developing countries. As developing countries, this can be justified only when the increased growth results from such higher energy consumption. To this end, the study examined the direction of...

This paper is focused on the benefits and costs of foreign direct investment (FDI) in Nigeria. The effects of FDI on economic growth and development for the period 1970-2009 were analyzed using the annual series data of manufacturing firms sourced from Central Bank of Nigeria and National Bureau...

This paper investigates the determinants of economic growth in Malaysia. Trade openness, foreign direct investment, government development expenditure and gross fixed capital formation are used as indicators of economic growth. The study used time series data for the period 1970 to 2010. The...

The paper uses data from 12 African countries to examine whether entrepreneurial activity moderates the relationship between financial development and economic growth. Using panel Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) technique, the results show that entrepreneurial activity does not moderate the...

This paper empirically examines the relationship between population growth and economic growth in Indonesia by considering lagged fertility and net migration as potential explanatory variables. In this way, we successfully differentiate the short-run and long-run effects of population growth on...

This study is undertaken to determine the relative impacts of the uncertainty of macroeconomic variables on investment and make policy recommendations that may help dampen their fluctuations. In the study, generalized autoregressive conditional heteroscedasticity (GARCH) model was applied in the...