Over the past two decades of transition from centrally planned economy to market economy Uzbekistan has experienced major structural changes. During this period the objectives of the tax policy were directed towards modernizing the tax system, increasing efficiency and reducing the tax burden on...

The question of why more African Americans did not migrate earlier out of the stagnant and repressive South after emancipation remains open. Previous work has highlighted the role of demand and supply conditions. At the time, though, there was much concern about the role of emigrant agents who...

This study seeks to find out whether there existed an empirically discernable and robust tendency in the world for countries to converge in terms of human development over the last three decades. Human development is measured by the Human Development Index trend and convergence across countries...

This article is a supplement to Kónya (2004) which investigates the possibility of the export-led growth and growth-driven export hypotheses by testing for Granger causality between the logarithms of real exports and real GDP in twenty-five OECD countries. In Kónya (2004) two complementary...

The aim of this paper is to study the potentially simultaneous relationship between income inequality and growth volatility for seventy countries between 1960 and 2002. Two types of analysis are performed; a cross-sectional analysis based on country averages of all available annual observations,...

The purpose of this study is to investigate empirically the presence of an equilibrium relationship between the logarithms of Indian exports and imports between 1949/50 and 2004/2005, using the unit-root, cointegration approach. To ascertain robustness, exports and imports measured in current...

In this paper Kuznet's U-curve hypothesis is tested on two unbalanced panel data sets of 47 and 62 countries, for the period 1970-93, using two-way fixed and random effects models. Several competing model specifications are estimated and the one best fitting the data is selected by appropriate...

This paper studies the possibility of human development convergence in the world from 1975 through 2005. Human development is measured by the Human Development Index (HDI) trend, and convergence across countries is tested for by the panel data approach of Ben-David (1993) and bootstrap critical...

The declared objective of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and the World Trade Organization (WTO) is to promote free trade between member states. Nonetheless, an exhaustive study of bilateral merchandise trade based on a large panel data set led Rose (2004) to conclude that...

Singh, J.P. and Konya, L. (2006) 'Cointegration and causality between Indian export, import, and GDP', Asia Pacific Journal of Economics and Business, Vol. 10, pp.20-35; studied the relationship between the Indian gross domestic product (GDP), exports and imports from 1950/1951 to 2003/2004. A...