The study assesses the relevance of infrastructural absorptive capacity in the foreign direct investment (FDI)-growth argument in ECOWAS. Though foreign aid has received a vast attention in the literature, however, an assessment of how the infrastructural readiness of the host economies drives...

This paper investigates the impact of financial development on economic growth in Pakistan using the Markov Switching Model over the period 1980-2017. The results based on two-state Markov switching model confirm the Schumpeter's view that finance spurs growth. The result reveals that financial...

The present study examines the heterogeneity of renewable energy consumption, Carbon dioxide emission and financial development in the global panel of 192 countries. Panel quantile regression has been used for tickling distributional and unobserved individual heterogeneity. The findings indicate...

In order to study the behavioral characteristics of the pore-scale hydrate formation, this experiment employs a high-pressure-resistant visible model in an etched glass plate to study the pore-scale methane hydrate formation and reveal its growth law s in porous media. The experiment shows that...