China and Brazil are two countries with continental dimensions, with differences in availability of natural resources, population sizes, and which have adopted different strategies of economic growth in the past. China has been following consistently a strategy of Export Led Growth (ELG), while...

This paper examines the nature and direction of the relationship between education expenditure as a proxy for human capital and economic growth in the six GCC economies using time-series data for the period 1977-2004. The analysis employs a Granger-causality test within an error-correction...

En este trabajo se calculan los efectos que las inversiones previstas de Red Eléctrica de España en la red de transporte de la electricidad ejercerán en la producción y el empleo españoles. Para el corto plazo se estima el convencional modelo de demanda de Leontief a partir de la última...

Whereas the knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship focuses on the diffusion of innovative output and knowledge filter among new firms and industries (Acts, et al., 2005; Audrescht, 2007), it has not been studied the phenomenon of entrepreneurship dissemination or entrepreneurship spillover...

The Entrepreneurship Spillover evaluates the systemic effect of creating enterprises in different sectors and industries from a new firm created in a given sector. One way to estimate these Entrepreneurship Spillovers is doing an adaptation of the methodology applied by Dietzenbacher, (2002);...

This article argues that a developed productive structure is characterized by its complexity in inter - industrial relationships, which can be measured by the size of connections between sectors as well as by the economic distance that separates them. To evaluate this, the notion of "average...

In the energy-growth nexus, due to structural change that cannot be accounted for in the linear model this study considers the possibility of the nonlinear model. Using dataset for fifteen countries in Africa for the period 1980-2010, we found that linear model has misspecification error, thus,...

Economic growth does not necessarily ensure environmental sustainability for a country. The relationship between the two is far more complicated for developing countries like India, given the dependence of a large section of the population on natural resources. Under this backdrop, the current...

The study is aim to explore the existence of environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) in case of Thailand over the period of 1971-2010. The EKC relationship posits that as economy grows, measured by per capita income, at the initial stage energy pollutants increase; but starts falling after a certain...

Our analysis focuses on a novel theoretical model which explains the relationship between pollution and output as well as recycling and output in the context of the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) framework. Our model incorporates habit formation on recycling in a circular economy model and we...