Over the past decades great changes have taken place in the economic environment worldwide regarding the foreign direct investment (F.D.I.). However, some of the developing countries have managed to gain more F.D.I. compared to other developing countries via skills acquisition, competition,...

Several studies emphasize the importance of the general environment in recipient countries for effectiveness of development aid. Another more recent strand of the literature considers whether the receipt of aid affects the happiness of developing countries. Since corruption, an indicator of the...

In this paper, we present a distributional impact analysis of climate change policies envisaged or implemented to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in Senegal. We consider policies implemented in developed countries and their impact on a developing country. Moreover, we simulate the diminishing...

This paper investigates the existence of Granger causality and co-integrated relationships between tourism related Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)and tourism development in developing countries using panel VECM techniques from 1995 to 2008. The results confirm the existence of a co-integrated...

This paper investigates voluntary disclosure of information by listed companies in Fiji. The paper aims to extend the literature on voluntary disclosure of information in a developing country context. The empirical data was gathered from the years 1999 onwards to give a longitudinal account of...

The paper compares and assesses the income inequality impact of three macroeconomic policy approaches, that is the theoretical Washington Consensus codified by John Williamson, the ‘real-life’ Washington Consensus and the structuralist macro approach which evolved during the last decade in...

Purpose – The objective of this paper is to contribute to the existing literature by examining which combination of three important agricultural policies – land distribution, domestic food production, and trade liberalization – is most conducive to improving food security in developing...

The main purpose of this paper is to test the impact of corporate governance quality onthe financial structure of companies using a dataset covering 35 developing countries from Centraland Eastern Europe as well as from Asia. Five variables related to corporate financial structureand eleven...