This paper discuses the role of USAID in the development process in Egypt. It discusses the USAID role in Egypt in some sectors with more focus on USAID/Egypt economic growth, more specifically the Technical Assistance for policy Reform II (TAPRII). I will discuss the items of the program that...

The paper sheds light on the importance of the international dimension for African economic growth. While existing evidence points to a positive impact of openness on growth, the appropriate dynamics of the implications are yet to be captured. The beneficial effects of exports are confirmed for...

Companies and capitals may face different variants of European markets, being necessary to classify these markets by establishing their importance within the whole strategy of the company. Another goal is the wish to cover as many of these markets as possible under maximum efficiency conditions...

In standard public finance theory a government's cost of borrowing depends on the common beliefs held by rational investors regarding default risk. We advance understanding of the effects of diverse beliefs and overconfidence among investors in their ability to assess the sovereign's...

Using a large, unique, firm-level dataset from the Chinese manufacturing sector, we study important factors that are related to emission intensity for three pollutants in China – sulfur dioxide, wastewater, and soot. Our main findings are as follows: (1) compared to state-owned enterprises...

We examine how workers’ remittances impact on the current account. In doing so, we focus on how remittances affect the sustainability rather than size of current account balances. We find that the presence of remittances make it more likely that exports and imports are cointegrated thereby...

Empirical results show that exchange rate volatility has a negative impact on the economic growth of Bangladesh. In contrast, this paper endeavors to analyze whether level of financial development of Bangladesh has any impact on the exchange rate volatility and growth relationship. To test this,...

The paper constitutes an updated and generalized research earlier conducted at the IET (Sinelnikov, Kadochnikov, Chetverikov, 2003) and comprises an extended review of problems and models associated with the demand for import and import substitution, and revaluation of models using the 2003 data...

This paper provides a systematic empirical study of the role of credit market frictions in the transmission of monetary shocks. First, using macro data for a developing economy (Pakistan), we show that banking spreads are countercyclical, even when we control for credit risk, monetary policy and...

It is shown that in an overlapping generations model, a strong transfer paradox occurs through permanent transfer in a dynamically efficient region because of international capital mobility. A graphical explanation is also provided to show how the strong paradox arises.