Scholarly Research

1998
button Barriers to Job Creation in the San Joaquin Valley, California, Fresno: Central California Fututres Institute
button "Institutional Framework and Economic Development" (with D. Assane), under review for publication by Journal of Development Studies

1997
button "New Evidence on the Effect of Human Capital on Economic Growth" (with D. Assane), Applied Economics Letters, Vol. 4

1996
button United States-Third World Relations and the New World Order, eds., New York: Nova Science Publishers (with C. K. Bragg)
button "The Economics of Political Change," in United States-Third World Relations and the New World Order, New York: Nova Science Publishers
button "Economic Development in Muslim Countries: A Comparative Empirical Analysis" in United States-Third World Relations and the New World Order, New York: Nova Science Publishers
button "The Geo-economics of Iraq-Kuwait Conflict: A Retrospective Comparative Analysis" (with R. Quiring) in United States-Third World Relations and the New World Order, New York: Nova Science Publishers

1994
button "Monetary Cooperation and Economic Growth in Africa: Comparative Evidence from the CFA-Zone Countries" (with D. Assane), Journal of Development Studies, Vol. 30, No. 2, January

1993
button Review of D. K. Gondue's Political Economy, Ideology, and the Impact of Economics on the Third World, New York: Praeger, 1992, Studies in Comparative International Development, Vol. 28, No. 1, Spring

1992
button "Changing Terms of Trade and the LDCs," in Shojai and Katz, eds., Oil Market in the 1980s: A Decade of Decline, New York: Greenwood Press
button "Authoritarian vs. Nonauthoritarian Approaches to Economic Development: Update and Additional Evidence," Public Choice, Vol. 74, No. 3, October

1991
button "Macroeconomic Determinants of Growth: New Measurement and Evidence on the Effect of Political Freedom" (with D. Assane) Applied Economics, 24
button "Effect of Interest Rate on Consumption under Alternative Expectations Formation Hypotheses: The Case of Pakistan" (with S. Ghouri), The American Economist, Vol. XXXV, No. 2, Fall
button "Impact of Income Uncertainty on Savings: Evidence from Mexico," Social and Economic Studies, Vol. 40, No. 2, June
button "Input Substitution in Manufacturing of Three LDCs: Translog Estimates and Policy Implications" (with R. F. McNown and C. von Hirschhausen), Applied Economics, Vol. 23, No. 1B, January
button Development and Democracy in the Third World, Boulder: Westview Press
button "The Political Economy of Development: An Empirical Examination of the Wealth Theory of Democracy," Journal of Theoretical Politics, Vol. 3, No. 2

1990
button "Dependence and Stability of the Demand for Money in a Small Open Economy: The Case of Côte d'Ivoire" (with D. Assane), African Economic Review, Vol. 2, No. 1
button "Inflation and Its Predictability in High-Inflation Latin American Countries: Some Evidence of Two Competing Hypotheses" (with K. E. Maskus), Journal of International Development, Vol. 2, No. 3, July.

1989
button "Aggregate Demand for Energy and Dynamics of Energy Demand Elasticities in Non-Oil Developing Countries" (with C. von Hirschhausen), Journal of Energy and Development, Vol. 14, No. 2, Spring
button "Inflation-Growth Trade-off in an Export-Oriented Rural Economy: The Case of Ghana," Eastern Africa Economic Review (with D. Assane), Vol. 5, No. 1, June.

1988
button Previously published in Working Paper and Reprint Series, Economics Institute, No. 19, April
button "The Political Economy of Development: A Cross National Causality Test of Development-Democracy-Growth Hypothesis," Public Choice, 58, 2, September
button "Socio-economic Determinants of Political Democracy," Atlantic Economic Journal, Vol. XVI, No. 1, March

1987
button "The Effects of Inflation on the Predictability of Price Changes in Latin America: Some Estimates and Policy Implications" (with K. E. Maskus), World Development

1986
button "The Impact of Income Redistribution on Aggregate Consumption" (with F. Perez and N. Traore), Atlantic Economic Journal, Vol. XIV, No. 4, December

1985
button "Export Growth and Economic Development: A Comparative Logit Analysis," Journal of Economic Development, Vol. 10, No. 1, July 1987 Also reprinted by permission in Portfolios-International Economic Perspectives, Vol. 13, No. 1, December

1982
button Economic Consequences of Increasing Oil Prices on the Development Process of Non-Oil Developing Countries, Ph.D. Thesis, May

1978
button The Necessity of Agricultural Development Toward Self-Sufficiency in the Third World, M.A. Thesis, March