Global aquaculture growth and institutional quality

Aquaculture: global status and trends

Aquaculture contributed 43 per cent of aquatic animal food for human consumption in 2007 (e.g. fish, crustaceans and molluscs, but excluding mammals, reptiles and aquatic plants) and is expected to grow further to meet the future demand. It is very diverse and, contrary to many perceptions, dominated by shellfish and herbivorous and omnivorous pond fish either entirely or partly utilizing natur...

The Impact Of Institutional Quality On Relation Between Resource Abundance And Economic Growth

Oil dependence, institutional quality and economic growth: A panel vector autoregression approach

Resources are the foundation of economic growth. With speedy economic and population growth, economic growth is facing a scarcity of resources worldwide. Resource-economy co-ordination has become every government’s main focus in reaching strategic development goals in countries that are on the path of rapid economic development. Sustainable economic development in a country requires resources a...

Aquaculture: satisfying the global appetite.

Three thousand years ago, farmers in China began growing fish in freshwater ponds and a thousand years later began cultivating mollusks along coastlines. For centuries, aquaculture—the farming of fish, shellfish, and aquatic plants—remained mostly a small-scale subsistence activity providing relatively low yields. But during the past few decades, aquatic farming has abruptly undergone a startli...

Investigating the Effects of Institutional Quality and Human Capital On Economic Growth (Case Study of Developing and Developed Countries)

The main challenge of developing countries is to achieve growth and development. The extant economic growth literature illustrates that the quality of institutions and social infrastructure are important factors that influence the economic growth and development. Accordingly, many analysts believe that regarding such institutional factors, the rule of law is one of the most prominent aspects ne...