Reexamining the National Savings-Investment Nexus Across Time and Countries

Retracted: the Nexus between Remittances Inflow and Private Investment: Cross Country Analysis of South Asian Countries

© 2017 AESS Publications. All Rights Reserved. Note: The editorial team of AJEM has Retracted the article on the request of corresponding author: Mr. Zeeshan Khan, Pakistan Institute of Development Economics (PIDE), Islamabad, Pakistan. Mr. Zeeshan Khan has requested to retract the article from the website due to his dishonesty. The editorial team has retracted the article as found unethical re...

Optimum Savings and Optimal Growth: the Cass-Malinvaud-Koopmans Nexus

This paper surveys the contributions of David Cass, Tjalling Koopmans, and Edmond Malinvaud over the decades during which modern optimal growth theory was developed. By utilizing material ranging from dissertations, drafts, and working papers, through conference presentations, discussions and published papers, we show that both Malinvaud and Cass had significant impacts on the evolution of Koop...

Prevalence of hepatitis A across various countries in the Middle East, African and Eastern European countries

Beyond GDP? Welfare across Countries and Time

We propose a simple summary statistic for a nation’s flow of welfare, measured as a consumption equivalent, and compute its level and growth rate for a broad set of countries. This welfare index combines data on consumption, leisure, inequality, and mortality. Although the index is highly correlated with per capita GDP, deviations are often economically significant: Western Europe looks conside...

Data on examining the role of human capital in the energy-growth nexus across countries

This article describes two publicly available data sources: the new generation of Penn World Table (www.ggdc.net/pwt) and the BP Statistical Review of World Energy (http://www.bp.com/statisticalreview) which can be used to examine the role of human capital in the energy-growth nexus across countries. The critical human capital measure across countries is for the first time made available in the...