Article history: Received 18 November 2011 Received in revised form 16 June 2012 Accepted 16 July 2012 Available online 21 July 2012 This paper analyzes the effect of health investment, and hence of health capital, on physical capital accumulation and long-run economic growth in an extended Ramsey model with an Arrow– Romer production function and a Grossman (1972) utility function. The paper c...

This paper employs the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) bounds methodological approach to investigate the relationship between economic growth, combustible renewables and waste consumption, carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, and international tourism for the case of Tunisia spanning the period 1990-2010. The results from the Fisher statistic of both the Wald test and the Johansen test confirm...

Introduction General Overviews Datasets Country Reports and Qualitative Data Journals Definitions of Federalism Federalism’s Purpose and Performance Economic Growth Economic Efficiency Deficit Reduction Corruption Redistribution and Unified Policy-Making Policy Innovation & Diffusion Peace-Preserving Federalism Secession Participation Effect on the Party System Understanding Variation in Federa...

Municipal infrastructure is a fundamental facility for the normal operation and development of an urban city and is of significance for the stable progress of sustainable urbanization around the world, especially in developing countries. Based on the municipal infrastructure data of the prefecture-level cities in China, municipal infrastructure development is assessed comprehensively using a FA...

twenty four male lambs divided into four groups and were allocated to 90, 105, 120 and 135 days of fattening periods.at the end of each fattening period, lambs were slaughtered. the percentage of cold carcass on the basis of empty body weight in the mentioned periods were 57.0 ± 0.94, 57.5 ±1.7, 59.9 ±3.3 and 62.2 ±4.4,respectively(p

Poverty reduction is a function of economic growth, income distribution and distribution changes. Governance can impact both growth and income distribution. The dominant market-enhancing governance paradigm seeks to enhance the efficiency of markets through ‘good governance’ reforms, ostensibly to trigger or sustain growth. ‘Pro-poor’ good governance reforms purport to enhance the scale and eff...

This report presents the results of an investigation into the sources of, and obstacles to, economic growth in the small Pacific island economies. The analytical framework is that provided by Hausmann, Rodrik, and Velasco (2005). The focus of this framework is on identifying the binding constraints to economic growth within a country, given that the investigator has detailed knowledge of the co...

Nat iona l and international economic policy has usually ignored the environment. In areas where the environment is beginning to impinge on policy, as in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), it remains a tangential concern, and the presumption is often made that economic growth and economic liberalization (including the liberaliz...

Information and communication technology (ICT) is a principal driver of economic development and social change, worldwide. In many countries, the need for economic and social development is used to justify investments in educational reform and in educational ICT. Yet the connections between national development goals and ICT-based education reform are often more rhetorical than programmatic. Th...