This dissertation contains three essays on the relationship between the spatial distribution of economic activity and different types of public goods. In the first essay, I study how changes in transport infrastructure affect the location decisions of firms by examining how manu…
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This thesis consists of an introduction and three essays. The first essay considers whether conflict alone can explain Afghanistan's lack of development. It looks at the growth of agricultural output, labor productivity in agriculture and total factor productivity in agriculture…
Reduced heat stress and lower gastrointestinal parasite loads can increase growth rate in heifers, potentially reducing the age at first breeding and lowering the costs associated with raising replacement dairy heifers. Providing shade is a recommended practice for reducing heat…
The theory of comparative advantage recycling, or market recycling, refers to the process by which comparative advantages pass from nation to nation as each journeys toward higher stages of economic development. The questions addressed within this exposition are first, what is t…
This study examines the financial development and economic growth for the case of Malaysia. Particularly our interest is in the causality of economic growth and financial market development and the determinants of firm's financing choices. This research investigates the causalit…
To be successful in the age of accountability, principals and all school leaders need to continue to build their capacity to lead meaningful, systemic and sustainable student improvement efforts that incorporate the required areas of reading and mathematics. A review of the educ…
Most of empirical modeling involves the use of Ordinary Least Squares regression where the residuals are assumed normal, independent, and identically distributed. In finite samples, these assumptions becomes critical for accurate estimations, however, in macroeconomics in partic…
This dissertation utilizes the latest econometric techniques to address three economic growth issues based on the experiences of selected Middle East and North Africa (MENA) economies. First, in chapter two we use the perpetual inventory method to construct series of physical ca…
I rectify a misconception in the growth literature that inequality is harmful for economic-growth (See Persson and Tabellini (1994)). 1 investigate the quantitative importance of intergenerational cooperation to economic growth, and show that the connection between income inequa…
This dissertation is based on the field of Growth, Technology and Development. It consists of three essays based on the JEL Classification system O0. Each essay independently explored Growth, Technology and Development topics. In the first essay, the topic of Causal Relationship…
Soil salinization is increasing in Morocco as a result of irrigation of agricultural land. The argan forest in the Souss Valley region has been negatively impacted by urban expansion and the increase in agricultural land. Additionally, both artificial and natural regeneration ef…
This study examines the impact of economic policy on economic growth in Nigeria between 1970 and the mid-1990s. It analyzes Nigerian policy to determine whether policy has, indeed, promoted growth during the period under review. In this study, policies that help create macroecon…
There exists much controversy as to whether international migration in general, and migrant's remittances in particular, increase or decrease economic welfare at origin. Our research contributes to the international discussion on remittances by presenting novel insights on the b…
Customer loyalty is considered to be critically important to growth, profitability and sustainability. It has received much attention by practitioner and managers. However, some important variables about the different types of loyalty have remained unclear. While businesses look…
Background. The Maya are one of the largest Mesoamerican groups. The decline of the classic Maya society, the subsequent Colonial domination and the current national economic policies has had a severe biological and social impact on the Maya across several generations. Accumulat…
Background: Substantial variation exists between ethnicities in both birth weight and the prevalence of obesity-related non-communicable diseases (OR-NCDs). South Asians, who display a reduced birth weight and increased risk of developing these OR-NCDS, have been the focus of mu…
Corporate Growth is a concept that has been widely treated in a specific way or as part of strategy theories, in definition and in econometric models and has also been studied in many different aspects and approaches. The author describes in depth the main variables affecting co…
Background: Temperature has a fundamental effect on organisms because it alters the speed of biochemical reactions and thus metabolism. This influence scales up to have ecosystem wide effects as the life history strategies of individual species differ in response to temperature.…