Growth in the pacific Rim countries has become the focus of much interest for both governments and economists. This paper has been partly prompted by that fact but also but also by the newly-percieved role of the FdI especially when viewed in the light of endogenous growth theory. A small,...

Until three decades ago, FDI was associated with negative perceptions, but recent experiences have brought an awareness that it stimulates the economic growth process through its positive spillover effects. The empirical study invsestigates whether FDI in fact, caused spillover effects which...

In this paper, we attempt to establish whether FDI has directly induced long-run effects on output in a selection of APEC countries or whether such an influence, if any, has been transmitted indirectly through spillover effects.

This paper presents an econometric model that combines macroeconomic time series data with historical series relating to political instability in Israel during the Intifada period, in order to provide a conservative estimate of the extent to which variations in economic performance over time...

Article introduces the notion of information money fields of the cyclic oscillations of the economic variables in the nonlinear dynamic economic system for the first time, and presents an original research on the Ledenyov theory on the information money fields of the cyclic oscillations of the...

Direct foreign investment (DFI) has played an important role in the economic development of China in the past 15 years. It contributed to the Chinese domestic capital formation and industrial growth, and promoted export expansion and employment creation. This paper provides an empirical...

This paper looks at economic growth and its fundamental determinants in Russia over the last decades. It starts by showing that, contrary to the views of some political commentators, growth is highly important for the popularity of president Putin. Furthermore, regular models of growth are...