Tourism is a rapid growing phenomenon and has become one of the largest industries in the world. The impact of tourism is extremely varied. The introduction of tourism will imply an increased stress on resources available and the tourism industry is very resource- and land intensive. An influx...

Brain drain as a migration of skilled and educated labor is an important issue from years ago and this is one of the critical matters with which the developing countries like Iran are engaged. So because of the importance of this subject in this study we have concentrated on investigating on...

This paper revisits the causal relationship between research papers published and economic growth in OECD countries for the period 1981-2011, using bootstrap panel causality analysis, which accounts for cross-section dependency and heterogeneity across countries. Our empirical results support...

The paper investigates the causal relationships between penetration rate, an indicator of telecommunications development, and economic growth of 34 OECD countries during the period 1960-2010. The panel model is used in this study. Based on the panel cointegration test results, is found that...

The 2013 Global Hunger Index (GHI) report—the eighth in an annual series—presents a multidimensional measure of national, regional, and global hunger. It shows that the world has made some progress in reducing hunger since 1990, but still has far to go. The 2013 GHI report focuses...

This paper investigates the relationship between government spending and economic growth. Economic theory generally expects a negative relationship between these variables for rich countries with large public sectors. However, empirical studies often cannot find a robust negative relationship...

Regulation of telecommunications sector plays a crucial role in the political and economic agenda for both industrial and developing countries. The regulatory efforts of more developing countries in order to attract investments and enhance the level of effective competition in the industry are...

Recent episodes of housing bubbles, which occurred in several economies after the burst of the United States housing market, suggest studying the evolution of housing prices from a global perspective. We utilize a theoretical model for the purposes of this contribution, which identifies the main...