The past decade has seen a trend of accelerating environmental degradation such as increasing greenhouse gas emissions, deforestation and loss of biodiversity. Such patterns of environmental destruction have been driven by increased economic activity, of which Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) has...

Having access to foreign investment allows a country to acquire opportunities that otherwise could not be had. Many factors are important for attracting investment in developing countries, but there has been only a limited consensus on which factors play an unambiguous role. Using different...

A strong and positive correlation between health care expenditure and GDP has been the consistent finding of research. Based on this concept about the role of health in the economy, this paper aims to investigate the relationship between economic growth and health care expenditure. We use panel...

This paper has examined the survival of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) in manufacturing industries in Iran during the years Second Development Plan. For the fist time it uses a large dataset to examine this issue in the context of a developing country. The paper discusses some...