The present study attempts to examine the casual relationship between foreign capital inflows and economic growth in India. Using the pair-wise Granger causality test (1969), this paper specifically examines casual relationship between foreign capital inflows and economic growth in India. The important observations emerge from pair-wise Granger causality test which shows there is the long-run e...

By introducing nonlinear technology gap into Jones (1995b), this chapter constructs an R&D non-scale growth model that includes endogenous human capital and technological progress. The goal is to take the model’s implications to the data to explaining the Chinese economic development experiences at period 1979-2004. Our model suggests that the technology gap has the block neck effect on the eco...

The main objective of this paper is to review the theoretical issues and available empirical evidence on capital account liberalization. In addition to being of interest in its own right, capital account liberalizations is important to the debate on the New International Financial Architecture (NIFA) and to the post-Doha agenda at the World Trade Organization (WTO) in relation to foreign direct...

After 1950`s, gradually the variable of human capital was included in the economic growth analysis .Foreign trade has also provided economic growth. Among other variables, which can be effective on the economic growth, are the country's economic and political structure and history of the oil or socialist system. The aim of this study was to analyze the effect of human capital, foreign trade, ha...

the objective of this research is to explore the effect of international outsourcing on economic growth in asia-pacific countries. accordingly, a panel regression model based on soderbom and teal (2003) is estimated using data of the considered countries over the period 1995-2006. in addition to international outsourcing, the model includes human capital, labor force and physical capital as the...

This paper presents a simple general equilibrium model of economic performance through time. The model incorporates 4 main determinants of economic performance: technology, capital investment, the division of labor and institutions. It demonstrates that growth is not automatic even with technological progress. In order to maintain economic growth, it is important to continuously implement new t...

in some of the new economic growth models, we pay attention to the effects of financial development on economic growth. this research investigates the relationship between capital market and economic growth in macro level during 1991-2011. the research is organized as follows: the introduction comes as the first section. in section ii, we review the literature on the relationship between econom...

One of the most controversial aspects of globalization is capital-market liberalization—not so much the liberalization of rules governing foreign direct investment, but those affecting short-term capital flows, speculative hot capital that can come into and out of a country. In the 1980s and 1990s, the IMF and the US Treasury tried to push capital-market liberalization around the world, encount...

This chapter reviews the recent debate about the role of social capital in economics. We argue that all the difficulties this concept has encountered in economics are due to a vague and excessively broad definition. For this reason, we restrict social capital to the set of values and beliefs that help cooperation—which for clarity we label civic capital. We argue that this definition differenti...

INTRODUCTION We apply capital interplay theory to health inequalities in Switzerland by investigating the interconnected effects of parental cultural, economic and social capitals and personal educational stream on the self-rated health of young Swiss men who live with their parents. METHODS We apply logistic regression modelling to self-rated health in original cross-sectional survey data co...