This paper discusses the institutionalists' economic thought and how they saw the role of property rights in economic development. It points out that the role of various institutions in the economic performance of many developing countries cannot be ignored. One of the important institutional...

Amongst the major development problems facing many of the developing countries is the increasing levels of poverty and income inequality. Economic growth in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s was seen as a panacea for reducing poverty. While the key to development progress is still achieving economic...

While mobile phones are making significant inroads in many developing countries, little is known about the institutional drivers, policy barriers and industry challenges that affect their use for business growth of micro- enterprises. The authors address this gap. After conducting...

There is a large literature that examines purchasing power parity (PPP). The growth in this literature is mainly due to the absence of a consensus view on whether or not PPP holds. This paper considers PPP for 11 Middle Eastern countries using a number of tests: the one-break test unit root, the...

The results of the 1999 and 2001 general election seem to suggest that the Indo-Fijian community in Fiji voted on the issues of poverty, unemployment and lack of opportunities amongst the Indo-Fijian community. The Indo-Fijian community, since the military coups of 1987 and more recently in May...

The results of the 1999 and 2001 general election seem to suggest that the Indo‐Fijian community in Fiji voted on the issues of poverty, unemployment and lack of opportunities amongst the Indo‐Fijian community. The Indo‐Fijian community, since the military coups of 1987 and more recently...

There is a large literature that examines purchasing power parity (PPP). The growth in this literature is mainly due to the absence of a consensus view on whether or not PPP holds. This paper considers PPP for 11 Middle Eastern countries using a number of tests: the one-break test unit root, the...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to forecast Fiji's exports and imports for the period 2003-2020. Design/methodology/approach – To achieve the goal of this paper, the autoregressive moving average with explanatory variables (ARMAX) model was applied. To this end, the paper drew on the...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide empirical evidence of food security and human development inter-relationships for a sample of low-income countries. Design/methodology/approach – The analytical procedure involves the estimation of a reduced form equation utilising...