Malaysia is a leading furniture exporter. CSIL ranked the country as the 8th world furniture exporter in 2011. Exports account for 67% of domestic production. Exports are mainly destined for the United States, Japan, Singapore, Australia and the United Kingdom, which together absorbed almost 60%...

CSIL ranks the Philippines as the 48th furniture exporter at a world level. The United States remains the country’s largest export market for furniture, absorbing around 45% of Filipino furniture exports. This research is part of the Country Furniture Outlook Series, covering at present 70...

The Thai furniture sector is definitively an export oriented one. Exports are a major industry driver and account for around 45% of the total output, well above the average world exports/production ratio (around 30%). CSIL ranks Thailand as the 27th furniture exporter at a world level. This...

Indonesian furniture exports are in the range of US$ 2 billion and are destined to US, Europe and Asia (mainly Japan and China). This research is part of the Country Furniture Outlook Series, covering at present 70 countries. Each Country Furniture Outlook Report is structured as follows:...

Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines are fast growing South East Asian furniture suppliers. The development of these 5 countries furniture production has been export driven. In fact, around two thirds of production is currently sold outside the country of origin. The export...

This article examines the existence and stability of the consumption function in the United States of America (US) beginning in the 1950s. In order to obtain a stable long run relationship, we have introduced two innovative elements into the analysis of the life-cycle of the consumption function...

This paper estimates the steady state growth rates for the main European countries with an extended version of the Solow (1956) growth model. Total factor productivity is assumed a function of human capital, trade openness and investment ratio. We show that these factors, with some differences,...

We investigate the growth enhancing variables in a group of countries belonging to the same geographical area namely, India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Bangladesh over the period 1960–2010. We find that this “homogeneity” does not necessarily imply that countries have the same growth...