Bangladesh is home to large unskilled and semi-skilled population and lacks adequate domestic employment opportunity due to scarcity of foreign direct investment (FDI) which may foster its economic growth. And this country has also been experiencing significant increase in international trade in recent years compared with the scenario of last decade. In this backdrop, the author aims at empiric...

in this paper we investigate the effects of broadband infrastructure providing high speed internet, on economic growth in developing countries. we have used two different broadband measures to classify developing countries into two groups for the period 1999-2008. by using logistic diffusion model and iv approach, a nonlinear diffusion model is specified. differences in ceiling of diffusion cur...

A 40-percent devaluation and its multiplier effects could cost approximately 1 percent of the state's total employment, or about 75,000 jobs, over the next three years. Because the state has been gaining employment at an annual rate of 240,000 jobs per year, such a loss represents about four month's worth of growth. Texas' economy should continue to expand in 1995, but the peso devaluation will...

â â â  â â â â â  the aim of this paper is to simulate the effects of some macroeconomic policy tools on production and inflation of iran by the current worldwide financial and real crisis. the theoretical framework of the analysis is based on the so-called ‘imf/world bank integrated model’ which is the synthesis (a merger) of the basic monetary approach of the balance of payments used at t...

This study is carried out to examine the economic factors affecting the services exports using descriptive-survey method. Research objectives are Identification of economic variables affecting the services exports, Identifying the critical components of service exports, The study of the structural model on the effect of discovered components on export services and Ranking the weight of each of ...

this research aims at studying challenges, difficulties and prospects of irans income distribution sector during 2005-2015 by means of an econometric model. the first part of the paper reviews some theories and empirical accomplishments regarding income distribution in national and international levels. the next part of the paper goes through the trends of income distribution and social welfare...

BACKGROUND In principle, trade and investment agreements are meant to boost economic growth. However, the removal of trade barriers and the provision of investment incentives to attract foreign direct investments may facilitate increased trade in and/or more efficient production of commodities considered harmful to health such as tobacco. We analyze existing evidence on trade and investment lib...