Impact of Innovation on Economic Growth: Evidence from Malaysia
Siong Hook Law
· Tamat Sarmidi
· Lim Thye Goh
·Malaysian Journal of Economic Studies ·2020 ·JEL: O11, O31, O43
This study empirically investigates the effect of innovation on economic growth using the neoclassical economic growth model. Embarking from the traditional labour growth, physical capital and human capital framework, innovation is postulat...
The Kuznets Curve, Information and Communication Technology, and Income Inequality in Malaysia
Jia-Jun Gabriel Yau
· Siow-Hooi Tan
·International Journal of Economics and Management ·2022 ·JEL: O33, O40
This study re-investigates the presence of the Kuznets curve in the context of Malaysia, by employing an autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) approach. We seek to examine the non-linear impacts of economic growth on income inequality by in...
Globalisation and Innovation Activity in Developing Countries
Chee-Lip Tee
· Azman Saini
· Saifuzzaman Ibrahim
·Institutions and Economies ·2018 ·JEL: F14; F21; O31
This paper is an empirical assessment of the impacts of globalisation on innovative activity across developing countries. The focus is on the role of trade and capital account openness. Extreme-Bound-Analysis (EBA) approach is applied to an...
Testing the convergence and the divergence in five Asian countries: from a GMM model to a new Machine Learning algorithm
Cosimo Magazzino
· Marco Mele
· Nicolas Schneider
·Journal of Economic Studies ·2021 ·JEL: O41, C32, E10
The purpose of this paper is to empirically test the economic convergence that operate between five selected Asian countries (namely Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines and Indonesia). In particular, it seeks to investigate how i...
Trade and Investment Convergence Clubs in East Asia Pacific
Sonia Kumari Selvarajan
· Rossazana Ab-Rahim
· Nor-Ghani Md-Nor
·Institutions and Economies ·2018 ·JEL: F13; O16; O53
East Asia Pacific has catapulted to be the most dynamic region in the world as a result of economic liberalisation and sustainable growth. This study seeks to investigate if selected East Asian countries are able to converge in terms of tra...
Trade Openness and Economic Growth: A Study on Asean-6
My-Linh Nguyen
· Toan Ngoc Bui
·Economies ·2021
This paper focuses on examining the nonlinear impact of trade openness (TO) on economic growth (EG) in the Asean-6 countries (Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore, Philippines, and Vietnam). In order to achieve the set research objectiv...
Debt and economic growth in Asian developing countries
Evan Lau
· Jaime Moll de Alba
· Kim-Hing Liew
·Economic Analysis and Policy ·2022
External debt levels have increased dramatically over the past decades. Many Asian developing countries are trapped in unprecedented levels of indebtedness while utilizing a high level of external debt for fiscal activities. This study empi...
Financial development and economic growth in Malaysia: a nonlinear ARDL application
Chia-Guan Keh
· Pei-Tha Gan
· Yan-Teng Tan
· Fatimah Salwa Binti Abd. Hadi
· Norasibah Binti Abdul Jalil
·International Journal of Sustainable Economy ·2022
Determining the relationship between financial development and economic growth is important to make precise projections of economic growth. As most of these studies rely on a symmetric relationship, they can lead to misleading policy implic...
High Technology Trade and the Roles of Absorptive Capabilities in Malaysia
Leonard Fong Litt Lam (University Putra Malaysia))
· Siong Hook Law
· W. N. W. Azman-Saini
· Normaz Wana Ismail
·Millennial Asia ·2022
This article analyses the importance of high-technology trade as a channel of economic growth to ease Malaysia out of the middle-income trap. This study also wonders upon the missing absorptive capabilities that validate the likelihoods of...
Regional Inequality in ASEAN Countries: Evidence from an Outer Space Perspective
Guohui Chen
· Jie Zhang
·Emerging Markets Finance and Trade ·2022
The ASEAN countries are in a golden stage of development, although the uneven regional development remains a prominent challenge to integrated growth. The study tries to investigate regional inequality in ASEAN countries from an outer space...
Does conflict have negative consequences on economic growth in South Asia?
Abdul Rasheed Sithy Jesmy
· Mohd Zaini Abd Karim
· Shri Dewi Applanaidu
·Institutions and Economies ·2018 ·JEL: H56; O40; F50
The direct and indirect causes of armed conflict in South Asia is perhaps the single most important reason for increasing military expenditure. It is also a significant threat to the growth of national output in the region. This study exami...
Asset indexes and the measurement of poverty, inequality and welfare in Southeast Asia
Joseph Deutsch
· Jacques Silber
· Guanghua Wan
· Mengxue Zhao
·Journal of Asian Economics ·2020 ·JEL: D31 – I31
Using data on household consumer durables from the Asian Barometer Survey, this paper examines the evolution of inequality, poverty and welfare in six countries of South East Asia: Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand an...
Nexus between Financial Development and Income Inequality before Pandemic Covid-19: Does Financial Kuznets Curve Exist in Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and Philippines?
Abdul Rahim Ridzuan
· Shahsuzan Zakaria
· Bayu Arie Fianto
· Nora Yusma Mohamed Yusoff
· Nor Fatimah Che Sulaiman
· Mohamad Idham Md Razak
· Siswantini
· Arsiyanti Lestari
·International Journal of Energy Economics and Policy ·2021 ·JEL: G10, F62
This study offers new insights for policymakers to reduce income inequality, thus ensuring economic growth which greatly benefits the poor segment of population and directing financial sector to provide easy access to financial resources fo...
Determinants of international remittance inflow in Asia-Pacific middle-income countries
Naoyuki Yoshino
· Farhad Taghizadeh-Hesary
· Miyu Otsuka
·Economic Analysis and Policy ·2020
The international remittances by immigrants to their home countries is one of the key sources of funding development in middle-income countries, especially in migrant-sending countries. This study assesses the determinants of international...
Flying with the Dragon: Estimating Developing Countries’ Gains from China’s Imports
Xuefeng Qian
· Kalsoom Rafi Que
· Yingna Wu
·China and World Economy ·2020 ·JEL: F14, F16, J23, O10
As a large trading nation, China competes with importing countries’ domestic and thirdcountry markets but also creates growth opportunities for exporters. Most studies on China trade shocks or “China shocks” focuse on the impacts of import...