Existing research on the determinants of private saving rates focuses on the effects of socio-economic factors and financial development. These studies do not provide a comprehensive picture of the influence of government-owned ...

Impact evaluations of poverty alleviation programmes often do not take into account political placement and implementation effort while estimating effectiveness. This can give rise to biased estimates if politicians make ...

This study estimates the indirect effects of the MASAF III Public Works Program (PWP) on the likelihood of a household to run a business in Malawi. To do this, the study uses crosssectional data from the IHS3 nationally ...

Consumption booms, defined as unusual upsurge in a country's real private consumption expenditures, are often perceived as dangerous macroeconomic events because of their detrimental effects on home goods prices, the balance ...

The transition to 3G mobile technology varies across countries with respect to the timing of 3G's initial entry to a county and the diffusion of 3G technology enabled services. Past studies have demonstrated demographic ...

This paper examines the empirical relationship between corruption and foreign direct investment (FDI) in developing countries of Southeast Asia. Difference General Method of Moments (GMM) is utilized to take advantage of ...

Despite vast literature examining causes of terrorism, domestic terrorism has only recently begun to be studied as an entity unto itself. It has long been postulated that a country's wealth influences its domestic terrorism ...

Education has become a global business and tertiary education is the biggest contributor. From 1975 to 2011, the number of international students enrolled in tertiary education among the OECD countries grew from 0.8 million ...

Ivory poaching has evolved from a local and regional nuisance to a vexing global threat in need of immediate action. The ivory trade is one of the world's largest illicit activities, funneling money to terrorist groups, ...

This dissertation studies frictions in the lending market that generate overlending and lax lending standards. Chapter 2 develops a quantitative model to study two frictions: 1) limited liability and 2) banks failing to ...