This study ranks Australian and New Zealand economics teaching departments on the basis of the research productivity of its economics professors in economics teaching departments using quality adjusted journal articles listed on the ECONLIT database for the periods 1988-2002 and for 1996-2002....

This paper studies the relationship between GDP and saving in India. During the last few years, the saving rate has fallen marginally raising concern that it might adversely affect economic growth. We take a long run view. We explore whether there is a long run relationship between GDP and...

This paper looks at the relationship between financial development and economic growth using time series data for eight Asian countries. First, we estimate augmented production functions where a financial development variable is added. Second, we conduct multivariate causality tests between the...

In this paper, we look at the GATT/WTO framework and examine the extent to which it has served the interests of the developing countries. The scope of WTO is much broader than that of the GATT. The WTO covers a number of areas which were outside the purview of the GATT. Our survey indicates that...

Maizels hypothesizes that export provides more boosts for saving than the non‐export part of GDP. We use recent time series techniques of unit root and cointegration to test the Maizels' hypothesis for nine Latin American countries. Cointegrated vectors and OLS estimates in first differences...