International Journal of Development Issues: Volume 15 Issue 2

An analysis of the emerging role of social media in human trafficking: Examples from labour and human organ trading

Campbell Fraser

This paper aims to explore the relationship between human trafficking brokers and trafficking victims by using examples from both the international labour and human organ…

Corruption and growth: a complex relationship

Girijasankar Mallik, Shrabani Saha

This paper investigates the corruption-growth relationship in a sample of 146 countries for the period – 1984-2009. While negative effects of corruption on growth have drawn…

Productivity and efficiency of labour intensive manufacturing industries in India: An empirical analysis

Purna Chandra Parida, Kailash Chandra Pradhan

This paper aims to make an attempt to identify labour intensity of organized manufacturing industries in India using the Annual Survey of Industry (ASI) data at three-digit level…

Consumer goods and export during economic slowdowns: The experience from the Great Recession

Mohammad Ali Taslim, Md. Amzad Hossain

The difference in the export performance of different countries during the Great Recession 2008-2009 attracted some attention. It was frequently argued that the differences in…

Intellectual property rights protection and export quality

Huiying Zhang, Xiaohui Yang

This paper aims to investigate the impact of intellectual property rights (IPR) protection on its ability to enhance domestic export quality.

Free trade zones, liberalization, remittances, and tourism, for what?: Jobless growth in the Dominican Republic

Jose Caraballo-Cueto

The Dominican trade deficit represents almost 16 per cent of its gross domestic product (GDP) and is insufficiently counteracted by tourism and remittances; not even a high…