Based on U.S. data for the 48-year-period 1953-2000, this study makes a contribution on the R&D-growth relation along five dimensions. First, we note several descriptive patterns that may be regarded as stylized facts relative to R&D outlays in the U.S. during the half-century period. These...

Purpose – In the context of a much higher infant mortality rate (IMR) among Blacks than among Whites in the USA, the purpose of this paper is to compare changes in IMR in the two groups to judge whether the rates of decline are indicative of the so-called Matthew-effect or the inverse-care...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a comparison of data on real (purchasing-power-parity – PPP) gross domestic product (GDP) per capita recently released by International Comparison Program (ICP) with the numbers reported in World Development Indicators (WDI) and Penn World...

Purpose – The purpose of this research is to study the relation between “restrictiveness” of a country's trade policy and its socio-economic well-being as reflected in the indicators of human development. Design/methodology/approach – A recently-developed trade-restrictiveness-index...

Purpose – The purpose of this research is to study the relation between “restrictiveness” of a country's trade policy and its socio-economic well-being as reflected in the indicators of human development. Design/methodology/approach – A recently-developed trade-restrictiveness-index...