Small states, classified as countries with population barely exceeding 1.5m, encounter special development challenges. Although they share common characteristics of small population and size of land area, they also differ along other characteristics such as geography, remoteness, and dispersion....

To investigate the nexus between the investment development path (IDP) and human development, we modelled the human development (human development index, HDI) using generalized estimation equations and accounted for the unit interval property using non-linear link functions. The gross domestic...

In the literature, existing meta-regressions on efficiency have focused on specific sectors in a country or multiple country and on specific economic activity. None of the available efficiency meta-regressions covers multiple sectors of an economy. We contribute to the literature by...