Purpose – The purpose of this research is to study the relation between “restrictiveness” of a country's trade policy and its socio-economic well-being as reflected in the indicators of human development. Design/methodology/approach – A recently-developed trade-restrictiveness-index...

Provides estimates of individual income tax elasticity in the U.S. by augmenting the nice cross-section model suggested by Tanzi (1969, 1976) through the addition of income-inequality and quadratic income terms. Results for the 1980's, based on income inequality data for 1979, show the same...

Purpose – The purpose of this research is to study the relation between “restrictiveness” of a country's trade policy and its socio-economic well-being as reflected in the indicators of human development. Design/methodology/approach – A recently-developed trade-restrictiveness-index...

Following the extensive literature on income (growth) elasticities of poverty in developing countries, this paper explores the magnitude of improvement in a country's human development as its per capita income increases. The response is measured in terms of the income elasticity of Human...

A vast amount of research has considered numerous causes and correlates of corruption. Also, there have been many studies of the consequences of various forms of uncertainty. However, exploration of the nexus between economic uncertainty and corruption appears scarce. After providing an...

New data on poverty released by World Bank in March 2012 are used to provide estimates of income (growth) elasticity of poverty for 2005--2008 and to compare these with two earlier periods. Five points are noted. First, there is a big drop in the overall elasticity for developing countries for...

In this study, state-level US data for the years 2000 and 1990 are used to provide additional evidence on the roles of income inequality and poverty in population health. Five main points are noted. First, contrary to the suggestion made in several recent studies, the income inequality parameter...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to study the cross-country relation between initial levels of infant-, child- and maternal-mortality and their rates of decline so as to see whether the so-called Matthew effect or the inverse-care principle operates relative to these three important...

Purpose – By using the World Bank's new poverty data that are based on the most recent International Comparison Program report, this research aims to revisit the response of poverty rate to increase in real gross domestic product (GDP) per capita. Design/methodology/approach – The response...

Using survey data from a large public research organization, this study examines entrepreneurship propensities of academic researchers, focusing on gender differences. Although sample means of female and male propensities toward entrepreneurship are fairly similar, regression estimates show...