Purpose – This paper tests the hypothesis that more information via higher levels of diffusion of ICT: a non-income influence, leads to an improvement in societal well being using data from a large sample of low-income countries. Design/methodology/approach – The empirical procedure utilises...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide empirical evidence of food security and human development inter-relationships for a sample of low-income countries. Design/methodology/approach – The analytical procedure involves the estimation of a reduced form equation utilising...

The international tourism industry is booming, giving many developing nations unprecedented opportunity in trade. But for some developing nations, law and order problems appear to have obstructed growth in tourism. With little attention in the literature given to the influences of safety...

This paper examines the effects of foreign aid type on human well being. Cross‐country regressions revealed aid for education and water to be positively correlated with human well being in low‐income countries while aid for education and health are positively correlated with human well being...

Purpose – This paper tests the hypothesis that more information via higher levels of diffusion of ICT: a non‐income influence, leads to an improvement in societal well being using data from a large sample of low‐income countries. Design/methodology/approach – The empirical procedure...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide empirical evidence of food security and human development inter‐relationships for a sample of low‐income countries. Design/methodology/approach – The analytical procedure involves the estimation of a reduced form equation utilising...

Factors influencing fertility rates in the developing island countries of the South Pacific are investigated using a simple model incorporating cross‐country data. Empirical results obtained provide confirmation that high infant mortality is significantly associated with high fertility rates....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate how a wide range of measures of tolerance, considered from social and institutional perspective relate to growth in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries. Design/methodology/approach – The empirical...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of trade policy pertaining to imported processed food on poorer health outcomes of people’s in the Pacific island countries. Design/methodology/approach Using an extended gravity model, the paper adopts the OLS time varying...