Charles W. L. Hill
Part One-Introduction and Overview Chapter 1: Globalization Case: Who Makes the Apple iPhone? Part Two-Country Differences Chapter 2: National Differences in Political Economy Chapter 3: Political Economy and Economic Development Chapter 4: Differences in Culture Chapter 5: Ethics in International B...
Martin Ravallion
Abstract A model of spatial price differentials for a tradable good is proposed which avoids the inferential dangers of received methods using static price correlations. The proposed method also extracts more information on the causes of price differentials from the same data. The method is illustra...
Bangladesh. Artha Bibhāga
Syed A. Rahim, Muntasir Murshed, Şükrü Umarbeyli, Derviş Kırıkkaleli et al.
This study aims to analyze the effects of natural resources, human capital, financial development, industrialization, technological progress, and international trade on the economic growth of the Next Eleven countries between 1990 and 2019. The novelty of this study lies in its approach to explore t...
Girijasankar Mallik, Anis Chowdhury
This paper seeks to examine the relationship between inflation and GDP growth for four South Asian countries (Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka). A comparison of empirical evidence is obtained from the cointegration and error correction models using annual data collected from the IMF Interna...
Azizur Rahman Khan, Mahabub Hossain
It was shown in Chapter 2 that compared to the pre-independence period, the average standard of living fell sharply immediately after independence, but subsequently living standards grew significantly faster than in the period prior to independence. The average levels of real income per capita and r...
Bishnu Kumar Adhikary
This paper examines the linkage between FDI, trade openness, capital formation, and economic growth rates inBangladesh over a period 1986 to 2008 using time series analysis. All variables are found stationary at firstdifferencing both at constant and constant plus trend level under the ADF and PP st...
Thomas W. Hertel, L. Alan Winters
This study reports on the findings from \n a major international research project investigating the \n poverty impacts of a potential Doha Development Agenda \n (DDA). It combines in a novel way the results from several \n strands of research. First, it draws on an intensive \n a...
Pravakar Sahoo
All five South Asian countries (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal) have been following consistent economic reform policy measures emphasizing the market economy and aimed at integrating their economies with the rest of the world. Consequently, all except Pakistan have experienced high...
Ana M. Fernandes
The author studies the determinants of total factor productivity (TFP) for manufacturing firms in Bangladesh using data from a recent survey. She obtains TFP measures by making use of firm-specific deflators for output and inputs. Controlling for industry, location, and year fixed effects, she finds...
Russell Smyth, Mohan Nandha
This article examines the relationship between exchange rates and stock prices in Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka using daily data over a six-year period from 1995 to 2001. Both the Engle–Granger two-step and Johansen cointegration methods suggest that there is no long-run equilibrium rela...
Mahfuz Kabir, Ruhul Salim, Nasser Al-Mawali
Nasim Shah Shirazi, Turkhan Ali Abdul Manap
This paper examines the export-led growth (ELG) hypothesis for five South Asian countries through cointegration and multivariate Granger causality tests. Strong support for a long-run relationship among exports, imports, and real output for all the countries except Sri Lanka were found. Feedback eff...
M. Shakir Hussain, Mahfuzul Haque
The study reveals that there is a relationship between foreign direct investments, trade, and growth rate of per capita GDP for Bangladesh with the help of annual time series data for 1973 to 2014. The Vector Error Correction Model (VECM) analysis shows that there is a long-term relationship between...
K. A. Al Mamun, Khawaja A. Mamun
This article examines time series evidence to investigate the link between exports and economic growth in Bangladesh. Using quarterly data for a period from 1976 to 2003 the article finds that industrial production and exports are cointegrated. The results of an error correction model (ECM) suggest ...