The main aim of this article is to explore determinants of life expectancy at birth among 28 European Union countries. Selected variables namely, gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate, population growth rate, level of education attained, education enrolment, GDP per capita and life expectancy have been considered for abovementioned countries in the period from 2001 to 2011 on a yearly basis ...

Submitted: May 12, 2013; Accepted: Jun 24, 2013; Published: Sep 15, 2013 Abstract: The paper investigates the impact of foreign direct investment on Growth (GDP) for Pakistan. It studies a long run relationship between the foreign direct investment and gross domestic investment in Pakistan. By using cointegration analysis, we demonstrate that there exists a long run relationship between the two...

What is the information content of news-based measures of sentiment? How are they related to aggregate economic fluctuations? I construct a sentiment index by measuring the net amount of positive expressions in the corpus of Economic news articles produced by Reuters over the period 1987 2013 and across 12 countries. The index successfully tracks fluctuations in Gross Domestic Product (GDP) at ...

Abstract I n this paper we investigated total energy consumption and its individual forms (oil, natural gas, electricity, renewable energies and coal) relationship with real gross domestic product (GDP) in Iran. We employed Hsiao’s (1981) methodology and annual data which cover 1967-2010 for investigation. The empirical findings indicate there is bidirectional causality ef...

a significant portion of gross domestic production (gdp) in any country belongs to the transportation system. transportation equipment, in the other hand, is supposed to be great consumer of oil products. many attempts have been assigned to the vehicles to cut down greenhouse gas (ghg). in this paper a novel heuristic algorithm based on clark and wright algorithm called green clark and wright (...

GDP (Gross domestic product) and per capita GDP data of six GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council) countries were collected and analysed by randomized complete bock design and pair-wise multiple comparison. It is observed that GDP of Saudi Arabia is significantly higher than that of all other GCC countries. The GDP of Bahrain, Qatar, Oman and Kuwait are similar. The GDP of UAE is significantly higher t...

among the food products, grains play an important role in the consumption patterns of people, especially in the developing countries. since iran's main source of public dietary energy comes directly from grains, investigating and identifying the determinants of import of these products can be an important step towards food security. most experimental studies consider import of grains as only a ...

this study determines the impact of e-commerce (ec) on some of important economic criteria including total factor productivity( tfp) of iran country as a developing country in comparison with us standard as a developed country through analyzing and calculating interrelated issues. the model is based on both econometrics and growth accounting approach to fill the gaps of previous studies. on the...