This paper straightforwardly discloses how an article written by Taiwanese scholars and published in Applied Economics is ridden with suspicious omissions. This misconduct leads to misinformation being printed in prominent journals as well as mistakenly listing eight medical doctors and three...

Parente and Prescott (1993) analyzed cross country economic growth data over the period 1960-1995 and concluded that there is no evidence supporting the existence of poverty trap. In our study we attempt to discuss this issue from the viewpoint of institutional economics. Although we do not...