In this paper the role of public spending on the education and health sectors is examined with regard to promoting the gross domestic product (GDP) of 12 countries in Asia and the Pacific over the last three decades. In six of those countries, namely Bangladesh, Kiribati, Malaysia, Maldives, the...

Malaysia is a rapidly progressing high middle-income economy. As a highly open economy with an increasingly liberalized financial sector, the implementation of a comprehensive macroeconomic policy is a challenging task. This article inquires into the efficacy of money in raising income and...

Since Independence in 1965, the economy of Singapore has transited from a low-income economy to a high-income developed economy. Over the period, the educational policy of the country has been framed in consistent with the national economic policy and human capital formation. The paper examines...

This article examines the role of monetary policy and trade openness to raise income in India for the monetary-targeting regime and the multiple-indicator approach regime of monetary policy. The impact of the key instruments of monetary policy, namely, money supply, interest rate and exchange...

Whether public debt spurs economic growth is an unsettled issue in both theoretical and empirical grounds. The issue has attracted lots of attention to economists and policymakers in recent times. This article addresses the debt–growth issue in the case of a small emerging south Asian country...

While the export-led growth (ELG) hypothesis attracted much attention historically, the import-led growth (ILG) dimension received little attention despite important linkages. The present article studies whether the ELG, ILG, growth-led export (GLE) and growth-led import (GLI) propositions hold...