Malaysia experienced four major phases of industrialization, with import substitution or export orientation dominating each phases alternatively. Manufacturing sector is important in Malaysia’s industrial development, inducing rapid growth, technology expansion and upgrading labor skill. High growth rates and high technology expansion in these sector resulted in a substantial increase in demand...

this study was designed to find which one of the three different presentations, i.e. input, input-output, and output-input, will be more effective in iranian efl learners' vocabulary acquisitions. to this end, first 54 out of 64 female students, aged from 19 to 23 years, with an average of 21, were selected out of starter-level efl learners at the university of tarbiat moalem in bandar abb...

In this paper nine input-holding--output tables at current price and constant price with 18 sectors for China during 1973-1999 are designed and compiled. Field of influence method is used to choose 47 important coefficients from nine Chinese input-holding-output tables. Using per employee occupied original value of fixed assets as independent variable, the nonlinear expression of each main coef...

E nergy consumption has increased significantly in Iran during the recent decades. In this study, an inter-industrial model has been improved to investigate the sources of the changes in the energy consumption of the country. The input-output tables of Iran for the years 1988 and 2001 have been employed as the database of the model. The innovation of this research allows the researchers to stud...

This paper analyses the changing patterns of Japanese foreign direct investment (FDI) and the activities of Japanese multinational firms in different industrial sectors in China before and after the East Asian crisis in 1997 and 1998, and investigates changes in their impact on interdependence between China and Japan in the process of economic integration in East Asia. In order to analyse struc...

We describe an efficient method for estimating enterprise input-output tables for cases when only information on marginal totals is available. In order to estimate the production structure of enterprises, we utilize engineering knowledge to construct a qualitative prior containing 1 wherever an output may require an input, and 0 otherwise. This qualitative prior is then scaled by the total ente...