The current era is characterized by simultaneous increase in many countries’ income inequalities and a decline in global inequality. People’s perception of inequality is shown to depend on how much they value absolute income vs. their national income position.

Although the EU and USA are largest players in global agricultural market, there only a few up-to-date comparative studies concerning their potential performance. No comprehensive study covering all individual member states relation to has been provided so far. Considering that light of lasting impasse negotiations on both international transatlantic trade liberalization, differences production...

Do aggregate income shocks, such as those caused by macroeconomic crises or droughts, reduce child human capital? The answer to this question has important implications for public policy. If shocks reduce investments in children, they may have a long-lasting impact on poverty and its intergenerational transmission. The authors develop a simple framework to analyze the effects of aggregate econo...

It is well-known in the literature that income per capita is strongly correlated with the level of democracy across countries. In an influential paper, Acemoglu et al. (2008) find that this linear correlation disappears once they control for country-specific effects focusing on within-country variation. In this paper, we find evidence of a non-linear effect from income to democracy even after c...

the twin deficits (budget deficit and current account deficit) have been argued in the economic literature since 1980s. this is a period in which the studies about budget deficit and the current account deficit were significantly increased in the united states. in the economic literature, there are two hypothesis: keynesian hypothesis and ricardian equivalence. the keynesian proposition confirm...

Banks in low-income countries are launching e-banking services such as Internet banking, SMS banking, ATM banking, card banking, point of sales (PoS) and mobile banking. Among these planned services, ATM is the most matured service in many private and state owned banks in Ethiopia. ATM is a recent phenomenon in low-income countries (Olatokun & Igbinedion 2009; Alaba, 2011), and is still being i...