We investigate whether geography (temperature and access to international markets), child healthcare, and education matter in economic development for a panel of 44 poor and non-poor countries using random effects GLS analysis over the period 1980-1997. Temperature and market access are...

The first part of this paper illustrates the point of view of Nicholas Georgescu Roegen (=GR) on the subject of growth, development and innovation. Some of the criticisms levelled at this approach are then considered, while presenting some arguments in favour. The Appendix reports a successful...

The paper reports the empirical results of the validation of the Stochastic Production Frontier (SPF) Model to an unbalanced panel comprising a crosssection of 8 manufacturing industries over a time span of 26 years The results provide insights on the repercussions of the macro-economic reform...

Economic growth is driven by the process of accumulation of the dominant resource expressed by an ordinary differential equation. This equation is studied in the models of Harrod (1939), Solow (1956), Lucas (1988), Romer (1990), and Grossman and Helpman (1991). The equations of the first three...

This paper deals with the impact of trade and technoiogy on wage dispersion in Latin American countries, and its effects on the distribution of weifare and economic growth. Section i provides a generai introduction describing the framework of the research. The foliowing two sections review the...

In this paper we examine the impact of firms’ economic and technological characteristics and of policy variables at domestic level on the technological activity of Turkish and Greek manufacturing. To this end a general index, the Technology Response Index is developed. The paper demonstrates...

This paper examines the main theoretical and empirical interpretations regarding the effects of foreign direct investment on technical efficiency of local firms and, in particular, in which way technical efficiency spillovers relate to the size of the technology gap between domestically-owned...

This paper introduces uncertainty of patent scope in examining R&D investment decisions in pursuit of an uncertain innovation. We find that an increase in the probability of scope protection increases research spending. This finding is opposite of the well-known effect that increased rivalry has...

Technology and innovatory capabilities are key sources of competitive strength for firms and countries. As a developing country, China seems to build its capabilities for technology and innovation through foreign direct investment (FDI) by multinational corporations. Do multinational...

This paper examines the impact of various determinants on female labor force participation in developing countries. Based on data from the World Values Survey (2008) and the United Nations’ 2011 Human Development Report and a sample of twenty-one developing economies we find that the female...