This paper seeks to test if the disillusionment theory developed by Sokolov et al. (2018) to explain the rise of anti-Americanism in post-Soviet Russia, can also explain the recent growth of Euroscepticism in East-Central Europe (ECE). We provide anecdotal evidence of anti-EU disillusionment in...

Tourism is one of the growing industries in Sri Lanka in the post war development. Its contribution to the Sri Lankan economy is vital in the same context. The objective of this study is to examine the causal relationship between economic growth and tourism earning in Sri Lanka during 1977-2012....

The growth surge produced by East Asian newly industrialised nations since 1970s has been a central theme of research and debate amongst many social scientists and policy makers. From an “institutionalist” perspective, the idea of “development state” was theorised to explain this “East...

The study of economic growth provides an opportunity for students to exercise their empirical skills, reinforcing the tool building that occurs in statistics and math courses. Descriptive analysis allows lower level students to develop their ability to work with data as they examine how fast the...

Education being an important component of human capital has always attracted the attention from economists, researchers and policy makers. Governments are trying to improve the human capital by pumping more investments in education. Education increases an individual’s earning potential, but...