This Book is submitted to the Department of Economics, Bayero University, Kano in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the award of Masters Degree of Economics (M.Sc ECONOMICS). The book examined the relationship between natural gas utilization ...

This research paper investigates the differences in the various responses of 10 Eastern European countries to the first financial crisis shock in 2008-2009. While 2009 was a difficult year for all economies, some countries performed better than others:...

This book provides extensions to mathematical techniques of nonlinear optimization theory, as applies these techniques to provide self-contained treatments for various versions of the benchmark model of optimal economic growth. These models and solving...

This study investigates the nexus between public spending and economic growth in Ethiopia (1971–2010) using an Autoregressive Distributed Lag Model or Bound Testing Approach. In order to determine the direction of causality between public spending and ...

This study empirically assesses the relationship between inflation and economic growth in Ethiopia using quarterly dataset from 1992Q1 to 2010Q4. In doing so, an interesting policy issue arises. What is the threshold level of inflation for the Ethiopia...

There is no a consensus among the mainstream economist about the role of public final consumption and investment spending on economic growth. Ethiopian government has been experiencing increasing government spending in the past 30 years. Especially, af...

This study gives a global summary of the evolution of telephones and economic development around the world, with an interdisciplinary approach based on three major dimensions: a time dimension (from the past to the future), a space dimension (different...

Immigration is understandably a subject of public debate and economic analysis. It is reported that Asia is now the largest group of immigrants in Norway. This book first examines the inflows and outflows of these four South Asian immigrants subgroups ...

How to achieve a sustained economic development process in developing countries is up today an open issue. Traditionally it has been believed that liberalisation and free trade policies would have helped them develop. Yet the economic strategies based ...

The book examined the impact investment on economic growth in Nigeria.The book also assessed to failure or success of saving and investment gap in Nigeria.The study used annual data spanning from 1976 to 2006 on domestic investment proxy by capital for...