Purpose – This paper aims to establish a relationship between trade openness and economic growth in the context of the developing countries. This study has proposed a new measure of trade openness to the literature, as the available measures are flawed. Design/methodology/approach –...

This study investigates the effect of oil price on financial development of four oil importing countries India, Pakistan, China and Bangladesh from 2000 to 2022. The study uses three proxies to measure financial development and different control variables were also used to control the effect of...

Entrepreneurship has recently attracted great attention from researchers due to its enormous growth-enhancing effects. However, the empirical literature has not paid sufficient attention to the explicit relationship between entrepreneurship and economic growth. This paper aims to explore the...

This empirical research paper focuses on establishing a relationship between external determinants and economic growth of Pakistan economy. Empirical analyses are carried out with time series econometric techniques using data over the period of 1977-2013. The main finding is that external...

Purpose: The new growth literature in general is very optimistic about the positive impact that human capital has on the economic growth of countries. Based on this argument, the current paper focuses to investigate the impact of different types of human capital on economic...