The paper examines the degree to which financial deregulation has contributed to increased international capital mobility in Sri Lanka. In fulfilling this objective the empirical validity of three tests are examined: the Feldstein-Horioka (1980) model; the Sachs (1981, 1982) approach to the...

This paper examines the relationship between corruption and public debt in 106 countries. Results suggest that corruption leads to an increase in public debt. We also investigate if the effect of corruption on pblic debt is increased by government expenditure, the shadow economy and military...

We investigate the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) and trade, as two measures of globalization, on female labor force participation in a sample of 80 developing countries over the last decades. Contrary to the mainstream view in the literature, which is mainly based on country-case...