Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between income inequality and economic growth, both in linear and non-linear specifications. Design/methodology/approach – The paper has employed annual time series data over the period of 1971 up to 2005. Autoregressive...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between import and economic growth for 62 countries. Design/methodology/approach – The paper applies autoregressive distributed lag model (ARDL) for long-run relation and Granger causality test, in order to detect the...

The objective of this article is to investigate the relationship between development of the financial sector and economic growth for South Africa. For this purpose, we data for 1965-2007 and set the estimation strategy under the ARDL framework. Importantly, four indicators for the financial...