Production often causes pollution as a by-product. Once environmental degradation becomes too severe, regulation is introduced by which society forces the economy to make a transition to cleaner production processes. We model this transition as a change in "general purpose technology" and...

"In response to the damage caused by a growth-led global economy, researchers across the world started investigating the association between environmental pollution and its possible determinants using different models and techniques. Most famously, the Environmental Kuznets Curve hypothesises an...

Financial Inclusion in Developing Countries: Applying Financial Technology as a Panacea -- Revisiting the East Asian financial crises: Lessons from ethics and development pathways -- Financial Development and Natural Resources Rents-Human Capital Nexus: A New Approach -- Financial Inclusion...

Developing Asia has undergone a dramatic shift over the past 5 decades from a region of mainly low-income economies toward one that is largely middle income. Compared with world aggregate data, developing Asia now has a much greater proportion of middle-income economies. The region faces the...

This chapter examines the direction of causality between financial development and economic growth in 44 developed and developing countries for the period of 1965-2016. Using bank-based indicators, our empirical results provide the evidence of linear Granger-causality running from economic...