Opportunity inequality and its relationship with economic growth is a concept to which not enough attention has been paid in the previous studies. This study attempts to investigate the effects of opportunity inequality index on economic growth in 15 developing and 15 developed countries over the years 1995-2015. Accordingly, the mean group (MG) estimator within the framework of panel data was ...

The rising heatwave occurrences in recent times due to climate change have resulted increased mortalities and socio-economic damage. Consequently, several studies been conducted examine vulnerability Korea. However, most of these used the IPCC framework weighting techniques, such as equal weight AHP methods, which lacked objectivity process calculating vulnerability. This study employed data me...

petroleum and its subjected economic structurs play a significant role in iran's political social and economic develovement. iranian economy highly depends on oil exports and incomes. oil industry provides almost 50% of national budjet and 80 percent of exportation resources. oil's incomes have fluctuated during different decades and experienced the most increasing trend in (2007-2011...

Developing country policy makers worry about national competitiveness and closely watch indices ranking international competitive performance. This paper analyzes from the development economics perspective if competitiveness is a legitimate policy concern, and if the leading indices deserve the attention they get. It assesses the best known index, from the World Economic Forum, and finds grave ...