The aim of this paper is to improve our understanding of the empirical determinants of firm growth by extending the literature to include new groups of variables, namely sunk costs, financial structure and multinationality as well as by using more appropriate econometric techniques.

The question of energy demand has been frequently posed in response to economic growth. This paper attempts to formally analyze the implications of energy demand due to Malaysia's economic growth scenarios.

The paper deals with the problem of the relation between capital accumulation and the carrying capacity of the ecosphere for humankind. The approach is that of ecological economics, which utilises laws and models of ecological sciences to model some aspects of economic systems and their...

This paper analyzes the interplay of growth, distribution and public policy when the latter depend on economically important fundamentals. It is shown that not only pro-capital, but also pro-labour or income egalitarian policies lead to high growth. The paper argues that the long-run...

Australia has one of the more volatile set of export prices among OECD countries. This paper examines the extent to which Australia's export prices relate to the world prices, using quarterly time-series data spanning, the period 1969q4--2002q3. The empirical results based on dynamic least...

This paper attempts to identify the farming and growth rate of livestock and demographic conditions helping in its growth and focus is specially to examine: (i) to know the trend of growth of performance of livestock farming; (ii) to promote fencing of farmland and conservation of rangeland for...