The title of this research is The impact of Government Expenditure and Economic Crisis on Economic Growth in North Sumatra Province, this research main purpose is to analize the impact of government’s routine expenditure, government’s development expenditure of agriculture, industry, and...

In the early 2000s’ the stock markets from Central and Eastern European perimeter began to develop quantitatively and qualitatively in an accelerated manner and Romania and Republic of Croatia did not made an exception to this trend and, also, had not been spared by the effects of the economic...

The costs of import substitution (IS) as a strategy for industrialization, which was deemed synonymous with economic development by many development economists of the fifties and sixties, were shown to be substantial in the influential and nuanced studies of the seventies and eighties under the...

The study aimed at identifying factors limiting the Tietê and Paraná valleys economic growth. Specifically, it analyzed the importance of the capital stocks for economic growth of these and the other counties in São Paulo State. Nine factors were generated by Principal Components Method to...

This paper investigates the determinants of fiscal decentralisation, focusing in particular on the impact of the level of income on the level of fiscal decentralisation. Various measures of fiscal decentralisation, several of them novel in this context, are employed in a cross-country...

This research seeks to identify the factors that account for the variation in development levels across nations by focusing on the institutional components of development, especially the effects of financial market development on economic and political development. I argue that financial market...

In this dissertation, I develop a definition and regional measure of entrepreneurship that will aid entrepreneurship research and economic development policy. My new indicators represent an improvement over current measures of entrepreneurship. The chief contribution of these new indicators is...