This paper examines the determinants of technological catching-up across 63 countries over the period 1982-2000 using a two staged approach. In the first stage, a measure of the technology gap between countries and the global technology frontier is computed. A positive growth of this measure is...

This analysis focuses on determining the role of those factors that are exogenous to the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) model in counteracting the scale effects (effects of the increase in GDP ceteris paribus) on CO2 and sulphur emissions. For this purpose, first, the EKC model is estimated...

This paper examines the major economic and institutional factors underlying the surge in foreign direct investment (FDI) flows to Chile during recent decades. It presents econometric evidence for the 1960-2003 period which indicates that market-based economic reforms and major changes in the...

We focus on regional convergence based upon a sample of 19 European countries (1991-2008). After covering theoretical issues on -convergence and -convergence, we focused on the income distribution details. Our evidence confirms some results presented elsewhere, such as the convergence process...

We present an analysis of the evolution of employment, productivity and wages in European regions. We estimate an econometric model for the rate of employment and real gross wage with a cross-section of 96 EU27 Regions at NUTS-1 level. We find stagnation in the average evolution of EU and strong...

We analyse the evolution of Private Consumption on Health, having into account that there are substitution effects between public and private expenditure in OECD countries. From the analysis of the evolution of these variables our main conclusion is that the increase of expenditure on Health,...

The aim of this paper is to analyse the evolution of manufacturing in 11 OECD countries, during the period 1975-92, from two viewpoints: supply and demand. With this purpose we estimate, with a pool of data, two econometric models for explaining industrial production from the above mentioned...

During the second half of the 20th century Asia as a whole experienced a much higher increase in production by inhabitant than Africa, due to several factors which caused improvements in industrial development and moderation in the rates of population growth. We present a comparison, at area...

This article presents some econometric models that have into account both supply and demand sides as determinants of real Exports, and the important relationships that exist between industrial development and foreign trade. The models also focus on the positive role that human capital plays to...

The paper presents a general view of the educational level of population and its relation to economic development in African countries. We present a comparative view of production by sector and by inhabitant, external trade, years of schooling and fertility rates, by country and by large areas,...