Intellectual property rights have recently moved to the forefront of debates over international policy. As each country establishes its own institutions of intellectual property rights, a divergence exists between net producers and net consumers in the returns to providing stron…
Sustainable development requires attaining a balance between maintaining environmental quality and controlling the economic impact of environmental regulations. This dissertation examines the use of natural resources in developing countries. The second chapter examines the produ…
The massive external debt burden of Nigeria and most of sub-Saharan Africa has gained widespread attention as a serious policy issue during the past few years. These countries are particularly vulnerable because (1) they have large international borrowing requirements and the re…
Developing countries and the poor within them (i.e., the other) receive scant attention in management and organization studies (MOS). The field, thus, suffers from both ethnocentric and class biases. This research effort seeks to reduce these biases, particularly in the conversa…
This dissertation analyzes the industrialization and social class structures of less developed countries during the latest wave of economic globalization. Industrialization and social class have always been among the central topics in sociology. With the latest wave of economic …
The purpose of this study is to establish the feasibility of full employment and price stability in Tunisia via an Employer of Last Resort (ELR) program. The development of Tunisian political economy since independence is analyzed in order to identify the country's institutional…
This study analyzes the impacts of developed countries' Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) measures on high value agricultural and food exports from developing countries. These impacts are assessed for their effect on behaviour of decision makers at the firm level, on redirecting …
Nigeria emerged from the colonial era in 1960 with great economic promise and potential. The country's economic situation was comparable to many East Asian countries, most notably Indonesia, in terms of population, income per capita, and natural resources. Nigeria discovered vas…
This dissertation challenges a prevalent strain of contemporary western thought that reads Islamism as antithetical to modernity and globalization; that Islamism is a site of unabashed traditionalism in the wake of the secularism. I challenge this dominant western reading by ask…
This study investigated the nature of household food insecurity in Bangladesh and beyond, whom it affects and how, and the best methods for developing and validating scales to measure it in any culture. The following questions were examined in three separate papers: (1) How does…
This thesis deals with international knowledge spillovers from advanced countries to developing countries through FDI and trade. Chapter Two develops the theoretical framework to analyze technology spillovers through FDI. This framework shows that FDI affects productivity growth…
Niger, ranked by the United Nation's Human Development Index (HDI) as among the three least developed countries for the last decade and as the very last this year (UNDP, 2005) faces the severe challenges of how to feed its increasing human population. I tested the hypotheses whe…
This dissertation is an attempt at explaining and analyzing capital flight from Southeast Asia over the period 1970 to 2002. The research is organized into five questions. The first question is: What is capital flight? We review the literature on the meanings and measurements of…
This study analyzes the relationship between saving and public social security for an emerging country, Turkey, that has one of the most generous social security systems in the OECD region. This study is the first of its kind for Turkey, in fact, for any emerging country in the …
Through the application of econometric techniques that can deal with changes in regimes, this thesis attempts to improve our understanding of the monetary transmission mechanism in Malaysia, a developing economy that has undergone tremendous shifts in its economic and financial …
After three decades of privatization worldwide, has the transfer of state-owned enterprises (SOEs)'s ownership to the private sector been welfare improving? What lessons have we learned from this experience so far? And what are the possible implications of this economic policy a…
The purpose of this dissertation is to address the policies intended to minimize risks and consequences of banking crises and bank runs in developing countries in the context of a developing country, Turkey. The first part of the study empirically investigates reasons of bank fa…