The maturing of the manufacturing sector in many Asian countries, combined with the relative backwardness of its services sector, has made services sector development a top priority for developing Asia. Our central objective is to broadly survey and analyze the current landscape of the region's...

Previous research has evaluated New Zealand's growth performance in the context of a decade of microeconomic and macroeconomic reforms, and concluded that on balance there is scope for cautious optimism on the sustainability of recently improved economic growth (Hall, 1995, 1996). That research...

This paper sheds light on two problems in the Penn World Table (PWT) GDP estimates. First, we show that these estimates vary substantially across different versions of the PWT despite being derived from very similar underlying data and using almost identical methodologies; that this variability...

The maturing of the manufacturing sector in many Asian countries, combined with the relative backwardness of its service sector, has made service sector development a top priority for developing Asia. Our central objective is to broadly survey and analyze the current landscape of the region's...

The underdeveloped service sector in Asia has the potential to become a new engine of economic growth for developing Asia, which has traditionally relied on export-oriented manufacturing to power its growth. The central objective of this paper is to empirically analyze the prospects for the...

En los 90's se dieron cambios sustanciales en materia económica en el país. Se pretende encontrar una relación entre estos cambios, el aumento en la desigualdad y la mayor volatilidad y menor dimensión de las tasas de crecimiento del PIB a partir de la misma fecha. Para esto se comenzó por...

Singapore's remarkable success in economic development has been strongly associated with the country's vigorous efforts to embrace the Information and Communication Technology ICT revolution to promote economic growth. This study provides a comprehensive investigation of the contributions of ICT...

The present study tried to explore the spatial and temporal variation in economic growth and productivity of Middle East and North African countries for the period 1971-2014. Further, we also tested the hypothesis of regional convergence in neo-classical framework. The study is based on the Penn...

The objective of the paper is to investigate the value-addition that expenditure on education has on economic growth in the Sierra Leone. The vector autoregression methodology is applied to annual data spanning 2000 – 2021, taking the time series properties of variables into consideration. A...

We use a panel data set of 46 African countries over the 2003-2015 period to study the role of institutional quality in infrastructure-led growth. Based on causal analysis, we show large positive effects on growth for countries with strong institutional quality in comparison with their weak...