This paper uses a panel of 23 emerging markets for the period 1965?2008 to study the determinants of per capita GDP growth in the Philippines. The Philippines is an outlier in terms of agricultural exports, investment, research and development, population growth, and political uncertainty. Panel...

The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of Human Resource Management (HRM) on organisational performance. This study addressed two measurement challenges suggested by human resource researchers: collecting data separately for managerial and non-managerial employee groups and testing...

Central America experienced moderate growth during the last decade, including in the years leading up to the global financial crisis, but the rate of convergence toward advanced country income levels has still been slow. Moreover, forecasts imply that these trends will continue. What can be done...

This study addresses the issue of the presence of a unit root on the growth rate estimation by the least-squares approach. We argue that when the log of a variable contains a unit root, i.e., it is not stationary then the growth rate estimate from the log-linear trend model is not a valid...

This study examines the inter-industry wage structure of the organised manufacturing sector in India for the period 1973-74 to 2003-04 by estimating the growth of average real wages for production workers by industry. In order to estimate the growth rates, the study adopts a methodological...

Using the concept of generalized Von Bertalanffy growth formula developed by Pauly and Gaschâ¿tz, we tried to integrate the basic equation of Beverton and Holt and to check on changes in the quantitative evaluation of yield/recruit. An example is given concerning a tropical fresh water fish...

When studying the growth of tropical fishes and invertebrates, the question of validation of growth parameters estimates often arises, due to the lact of reliability of some of the methods used in obtaining such estimates. One possible approach is the comparative approach, which has the...