this paper investigates the short- run and long-run effects of government size and exports on the economic growth of iran as a developing oil export based economy for the period of 1974 - 2008 using an autoregressive distributed lags (ardl) framework. a modified form of feder (1982) and subsequently ram’s (1986) model has been applied to include both government size and exports in growth equati...

The resource curse literature suggests that, in fragile states dependent on natural rents, structures of public accountability are weak because an elite-controlled political economy indifferent to social and ecological interests. We examine claims made by non-domestic proxy actors, holding governments corporations accountable behalf communities adversely affected resources extraction. This conc...

In the present study, the effect of concluding and executing monetary treaties as well as membership of regional economic cooperation organizations (as a potential for using regional currency) on mutual exports between Iran and its 50 major trading partners during the period of 2000 to 2016 is investigated. The Generalized Commercial Gravity Model and Ordinary Least Square (OLS) regression of p...

The Russian-Ukrainian crisis has revitalized the European concerns of supply disruptions of natural gas as experienced in 2006 and 2009. However, the European supply situation, regulation and infrastructure have changed since: imports are more diversified, EU member states better connected and a common regulation on the security of supply has been introduced. Nevertheless, several East European...

Print Send to friend Building on its past success, how can Chile now move forward into the ranks of the high-income countries? In this guest article, Professor Jeffrey D. Sachs looks at the challenges and at some of the policy shifts that may be required. During the last few decades, the Latin American region as a whole has achieved little economic growth, attaining an average real income per c...