This study assesses the impact of banking reforms on banks' performance and economic growth for the period 1981 to 2015 by fitting an ANOVA model into Stepwise Regression. Using dummy variables to isolate reform periods, results show that banking reforms contribute positively to economic growth,...

Using a cross-country panel of 92 developing countries over the period 1990-2014, this paper examines the impacts of sector growth on income inequality. Most low-income people in developing countries are involved in agriculture and related industries, and directly utilize natural resources. The...

The objective of this paper is to test the unconditional convergence (β and σ convergence, Barro and Sala-i-Martin, 1995) across 15 major Indian States from 1980-81 to 2010-11, and to explore the proximate reasons for the growing regional inequality. The present piece of work also carried out...

The indispensable role of electricity in expediting the process of industrialization leading to economic development, of developing nations in particular, cannot be questioned. Thus, researchers and policy makers all around the globe have endeavored themselves in identifying the contribution of...

We examine the role of democracy shocks in the cross-country economic growth processes over a period of five decades since 1960. The recent uprisings that arose independently and spread across the Arab world form the main context of our investigation. We study if (i) a shock to democracy in one...

In this paper, we challenge the traditional assumption of a linear relationship between exchange rate volatility and economic growth in South Africa. By using data collected from 1970 to 2016 applied to a smooth transition regression (STR) model, we are able to prove that the exchange...

In this article, long term data is analyzed for the total growth of the world economy and the growth of developed (G7) and of the rapid developing economies. BRICS countries are known countries with their meetings since 2008. Rapidly developing countries such as Mexico, Argentina, Turkey,...

In this article, long term data is analysed for the total growth of the world economy and the growth of developed (G7) and of the rapid developing economies. The total population of BRICS and MATIK countries generate 49,16% of the the world’s population, and their economic size generates...

This study examines the symmetric and asymmetric impact of public debt on economic growth in Côte d'Ivoire using time series data from 1972 to 2021. The analyses were performed using both linear and nonlinear autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) models. The study also utilised the bounds...