Reducing insecurity: The principal objective of income transfers? Tax treatment of families in modern industrial countries: The role of the NIT

A comprehensive framework is developed and applied to estimate the economic costs incurred by the Soviet Union in acquiring, maintaining, and expanding its empire. The terms "empire" and "costs" are explicitly defined. Between 1971 and 1980, the average ratio between empire costs and Soviet gross national product was about 3.5 percent; as a ratio to Soviet military spending, empire costs averag...

This study provides new evidence on the relationship between finance and economic growth using an innovative dynamic panel threshold technique. The sample consists of 87 developed and developing countries. The empirical results indicate that there is a threshold effect in the finance–growth relationship. In particular, we find that the level of financial development is beneficial to growth only...

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Historical, cultural and institutional factors certainly did have a positive impact on the economic growth in South Korea and the other East Asian newly industrialising economies. However, these factors would not have been of any importance without governmental influence. Particularly in South Korea, a strong state with highly respected and qualified bureaucrats could play a central role in sti...

Progress towards the MDGs is expected to slow as a consequence of the global economic downturn. Th is study applies an economy-wide framework to analyze the impact of the crisis on MDG achievement in six Latin American countries. It fi nds signifi cant setbacks towards the goals and, in the case of the region’s low-income countries, the cost of achieving these would rise between 1.6 and 3.4 per...

For performance national economy sectors are divided and grouped according to their economic importance. The authors put forward four parameters characterizing the efficiency of national economy sectors by justifying the choice and describing the tendencies in sectoral aspect. Are set the importance degrees for indicators on the basis of national priorities, availability, reliability and logica...

Collaborative development of the three industries is the target of pursuit for economic development of a country, and is also the requirement for economic harmony and sustainable development. It is a difficult issue how to measure collaboration of the three industries and conduct a quantitative study. However, it is a quite good choice to establish an evaluation indicator system and employ the ...