This paper examines the contributions of financial and macroeconomic variables to the revitalisation of a depressed US economy. Using time series data from 1957 to 2011 and a binary logistic regression model, it finds that government consumption expenditure and gross investment, real personal...

This paper investigates the impact of globalization on structural changes in the US manufacturing sector. It finds that US productivity in the manufacturing sector has increased, but that the performance of the sector is highly contingent on changes in US national income. Changes in...

This paper examines the relationship between industrial value added and economic liberalization for a variety of relatively small economies that adopted import-substituting industrialization (ISI) and export led growth in the past. The strong economic performance by some Sub-Saharan African...