The problem of weak economic development in Nigeria despite a substantial inflow of revenues from oil exports especially from the early 1970s and other subsequent periods is an important issue to examine. This outcome presents a number of problems for any government regime in Ni…
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This research project seeks explanations for an inconsistency between onerously-regulated, stable labour market institutions (LMIs) and everyday employment in the Brazilian variety of capitalism. The study adopts a new institutionalist approach and findings are based upon qualit…
In late 1999, the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) jointly launched the Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRS) Initiative, under which low income countries (LICs) would be supported to develop multi-sectoral economic and social development plans. As such, these nationa…
This thesis examines three different aspects of monetary policy in a varying sample of developing countries, with some Islamic banks. The first essay estimates a variety of interest rate rules for the conduct of monetary policy for Indonesia, Israel, South Korea, Thailand and Tu…
This thesis is based on three empirical essays in financial development and economic growth. The first essay, investigated in the third chapter, the effect of financial development on economic growth in the context of Saudi Arabia, an oil-rich economy. In doing so, the study dis…
This study aims to identify the effects of oil income on economic growth in Iran over the period 1955-2014. The empirical literature indicates that countries with natural resources are growing more slowly than their counterparts. However, the results from this literature are far…
This study examines the impact of fiscal deficits on economic growth in developing countries. Based on deduction from the relevant theoretical and empirical literature, the study tests the following hypotheses regarding the impact of fiscal deficits on economic growth. First, fi…
This thesis examines the macroeconomic impact of remittances in developing economies, using data from 1990 to 2016. Despite poverty-reducing and welfare-enhancing characteristics for recipient households, remittances remain to inhibit macroeconomic policy in developing economies…
Chapter 1: Conflict and Child Health: Evidence from the DRC Conflicts between 1996 and 2014: This paper uses four nationally representative household surveys to investigate the dynamics of children's health during the DRC conflicts from 1996 to 2014. I find negative effects on c…
This thesis explores two important aspects of growth, namely the roles of financial development and inequality. The recent literature has indicated that both the finance-growth and inequality-growth relationships are complex and not well captured through conventional linear regr…
This research aims to study the relationship between economic performance, economic reforms, corruption, ethnic diversity and business environment. In chapter two, meta-analysis and meta-regression analysis methods are applied to study the relationship between economic growth an…
The activities of the construction industry are essential for economic growth of countries all over the world. The importance of the industry is more felt in developing countries where infrastructure facilities required for improved living standards are relatively under-supplied…
In this study an attempt has been made to explore the role of technology transfer in the economic growth of Iraq, through the change in the technology itself for the period 1960-1978. For this purpose the economy was disaggregated into seven sectors. The experience of developed …
This thesis explores the role of openness to international trade on economic development, characterised by economic growth and income inequality, across countries. The existing empirical literature has shown that the effect of trade on economic development may not be well captur…
O Brexit tem provocado alguma incerteza nos mercados, nomeadamente no europeu. Muitos estudos, estimativas e especulações foram feitas sobre os impactos económicos, no investimento, em termos sociais e até políticos. No âmbito da minha atividade profissional numa instituição fin…
The purpose of this quantitative historical correlational study was to examine the degree to which the IMF’s intermediary economic policy role and FDI predict macroeconomic outcomes in the West African nations of Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. Annual of IMF transactions and …
This dissertation analyses the development models pursued in Jamaica from 1895 to 1972. It is concerned with three lines of inquiry throughout different historical junctures from the late nineteenth century to the late 1960s. To what extent did colonial and post-colonial ideas a…
In recent decades, Japan's growth rate gradually declined and now lags behind those of other advanced economies and other Asian nations. Japanese government's plan to revitalize the nation's economy stresses population decline and population aging as factors that undermine natio…
Innovation is the key to long-term economic growth, but we still know little about the determinants of innovation. The dissertation contains three essays on the causal relationship between labor supply and innovation. In the first chapter, I explore the relationship between high…