This research investigates the roles of competition, trade policies, and credits as factors affecting innovation and offers theoretical and empirical analysis to study the interrelationships between these variables. In the theoretical parts, we develop a number of predictions. T…
Using data from 73 nations, I seek to answer 3 main theoretical questions related to the change in the youth smoking rates from the first to the second wave of the Global Youth Tobacco Survey. Hypothesis 1: what is the impact of neo-liberal economic policies, increases in foreig…
This study is concerned with alternative industrial strategies for employment creation. The two strategies are export-oriented and import substitution industrialisation. Malaysia tried the import substitution strategy and achieved some degree of success in the period 1957 to 197…
The transfer of technology to developing countries constitutes one of the major debates in the literature on development economics. The present empirical investigation is intended to contribute to the large existing literature on technological transfer. Its major contribution li…