Economic development implies that the efficiency of firms in developing countries is approaching that of firms in advanced economies. We examine the extent of this convergence in the Czech Republic and Russia, economies that represent alternative models of implementing development policies,...

A well-developed financial intermediation industry increases domestic savings, efficiently allocates investment resources to the most productive uses in the economy and increases the rate of economic growth. In the Soviet economy the banking system served as a means of collecting household...

Economic development implies that the efficiency of firms in developing countries is approaching that of firms in advanced economies. We examine the extent of this convergence among all firms as well as a subset of firms near the efficiency frontier in two economies that represent alternative...

Historically, scholars of economic growth have focused almost exclusively on aggregate output or income as a way to assess the standard of living in a society. The purpose of this dissertation is to supplement and challenge this methodology by using evidence of the biological standard of living...

The main purpose of this research is to analyze the impact of the urbanization toward economic growth in Indonesia wholly in particular in the provinces in Indonesia. Ordinary Least Square (OLS) method is used to analyze time series data and cross section data. Time series data is used to...

This research entitled "The Influence of Government Expenditure, Population and Industry Value Added of Economic Growth in South Tapanuli Regency". This research uses data series from 1989 until 2009. The purpose of this research is to know the effect of government expenditure, population and...

This research titled "Analysis of Influence of Credit and Interest Rate Increase Economic Growth in Disability Sumatera Utara Pada PT. Bank Sumut Year 1989-2008. " This research uses a sample of 20 years. The purpose of this research is to determine the influence of credit and interest rate of...

As an organization, the government made a lot of spending to finance the construction an running of the government which is reflected in special budget expenditure.Government expenditure or expenditure financing is all the local government property which consists of direct costs and indirect as...

The relationship between economic freedom and economic growth has always been frequently discussed in the economic literature. Economic freedom is often believed to enhance economic growth, which in turn creates more economic freedom. The first part of this paper studies the transition process...

Knowledge accumulation in the richer countries provides them with comparative advantages in higher productivity products. The countries that import the higher productivity intermediate products and capital equipments produced in the richer countries, however, derive benefits from knowledge...