Agriculture has a multifunctional role in economic development in developing countries; besides providing food for growing population, it is a major source of economic growth. Furthermore, growth originating from agriculture is known to be twice as effective in poverty reduction as growth...

This study explores how income inequality and defence burden affects economic growth in different parts of the world. We follow an endogenous growth model that proposes a negative relationship of growth with income inequality and defence burden. The implications of the model are tested using...

The aim of this paper is to re-examine the consequences of AIDS on economic growth inAfrica.The model is based on two crucial hypothesis: i) AIDS has a short-term impact on a flow variable (the flow of labour available and capable of working at a moment t in the economy); ii) AIDS has a...

In this paper, we investigate the relation between entrepreneurship and Added Value Growth in Industrial Sector. For this purpose, we investigated the data related to sistan and Baluchestan Province in the period of 2000 to 2010 by using endogenous growth model. In this model, we set Added Value...