This paper aims to determine and analyse the typology and intensity of the economic growth through an approach to the structure of the allometric models, previously developed by biologists. It could be important for political decision-takers to know the type of growth since it allows the...

Against the background of the euro area sovereign debt crisis, our paper investigates the relationship between public debt and economic growth and adds to the existing literature in the following ways. First, we use a dynamic threshold panel methodology in order to analyse the non-linear impact...

In this paper, the author uses classical and modern econometric methods for the modeling of the economic growth rate dynamics in Romania, during the period 1990-2004. The output of this analysis is an econometric model that describes the dynamics of the economic growth process in Romania during...

This paper aims at verifying the nature of the relationship between financial development and economic growth in Brazil. From the theoretical point-of-view, although the prevailing view through which financial development generate direct impacts on economic growth, there are distinct positions....

This paper takes into account the recent role of social protection on economic growth as a socio-economic-political stabilizer. Social protection outcome in Sudan is influenced by limited targeting actions with very low interventions between results in economic growth and accesses to basic...

The relationship between growth and inequality has been analysed by a number of recent empirical studies. This paper re-examines the relationship between of growth and inequality for the period 1956-2003 for Sudan. It builds upon different models to investigate empirically the relationship...

Against the background of the euro area sovereign debt crisis, our paper investigates the relationship between public debt and economic growth and adds to the existing literature in the following ways. First, we extend the threshold panel methodology by Hansen (1999) to a dynamic setting in...

The Environmental Kuznets Curve hypothesis argues that the relation between pollution levels and per capita income levels is inverse U-shaped. While different explanations have been offered, the reduced form nature of the regression model generally tested does not lend itself to statistical...

The paper addresses a topical issue – how expansionary fiscal policy affects the debt to GDP ratio. It examines whether the projected future economic growth (stimulated by government spending) is sustained with the resulting national debt. It is discussed if government investment in...

Available data on production parameters of the newly born Arabian Gulf countries are very scarce. Truly, they are extremely rich with their oil and natural gas reserves. However, it is basic in an economy to generate other sources of income from created economic sectors. In the present study I...