This paper provides a simple development mechanism for African nations, where economic development is low due to not only low level of physical capital but also poor social capital that leads to lot of conflicts. The study suggests for development of social capital, which is a broader concept...

This paper presents the results of an investigation of the causality issue of income-emission relationship based on time series econometric techniques of unit root test, co-integration and related error correction model for a panel data set. Here, the nature of causality between per capita CO2...

What are the potential sources of growth and how is the convergence process of the Portuguese economy within the EU characterised? We answer this question by determining the most suitable specification of the aggregate production function, CES or Cobb-Douglas, for the EU countries as in...