Abstract F DI can create employment and reduce poverty, increase the host country’s export capacity causing the developing country to increase its foreign exchange earnings. The aim of this study is to investigate whether FDI affect economic growth in GCC countries over the period 1980-2014 using ARDL approaches. The empirical results show that the FDI is one of the major drivers of e...

The paper aims to investigate empirically the effects of several types of financial restraints on financial development for the case of the Iran. Two hypotheses addressed and discussed in the context of the McKinnon/Shaw and the monopoly bank model. A conditional co-integration model has been employed to carry out the empirical investigations. The long and short-run analysis show that fin...

S ince 1973, per capita income growth in the United States and other advanced countries has slowed to 2.2 percent a year, or almost half the 3.9-percent annual rate of the preceding quarter century. If the United States had maintained the level of growth experienced in the 1950s and 1960s, real per capita income today would be about 11 percent ($2,200 in 1987 dollars) greater than it actually i...

abstract export of nonoil goods in economic activities is so important and its effect on economic and comparative growth is undeniable. so, emphasize on agricultural sector and development of export in this sector prepares good conditions, for iran, to be present at international markets relying its advantages. the study tries to recognize necessary policies to enhance agricultural export poten...

L ong-run price stability is generally considered to be a primary goal of monetary policymakers in many countries. One reason policymakers care about inflation is that it can harm economic performance. Numerous studies of the impact of inflation on economic performance have focused on whether increases in inflation reduce economic growth in the long run (Barro, Fischer 1993, Bruno and Easterly,...

The data presented in this article are related to the research article entitled 'Economic Growth, Fossil Fuel and Non-Fossil Consumption: A Pooled Mean Group Analysis using Proxies for Capital' (J. Asafu-Adjaye, D. Byrne, M. Alvarez, 2016) [1]. This article describes data modified from three publicly available data sources: the World Bank׳s World Development Indicators (http://databank.worldban...