Remittances and Household Consumption Instability in Developing Countries

Immigrant remittances and the venture investment environment of developing countries

Received: 29 May 2010 Revised: 1 May 2011 Accepted: 18 July 2011 Online publication date: 8 September 2011 Abstract Despite the increasing importance of financial and social remittances to developing countries, their impact on home-country venture-investing environments has been largely overlooked. I develop a framework grounded in transaction costs economics and social knowledge theories to in...

Productive Consumption and Growth in Developing Countries

Productive consumption enables the satisfaction of current needs and, at the same time, increases the productive potential of labour. Theoretical as well as empirical evidence suggests that productive consumption is primarily relevant to low-income countries. From the perspective of growth theory, the productive consumption hypothesis is of fundamental interest because it modifies the "harsh" i...

Ferrieri's Index of Openness Applied to Remittances to Developing Countries

Commodity Instability and Developing Countries: the Debate

The Effects of Foreign Trade, Energy Consumption and Human Capital on GDP in Several Candidate Developed Countries and Developing Countries

Abstract T his paper attempted to examine the effects of foreign trade, energy consumption, human capital and physical capital on GDP in 8 candidate developing countries and 8 candidate developed countries during 2002-2014.In this study, the effects of variables were estimated through panel cointegration technique and dynamic ordinary least squares (DOLS).The results of regression te...