Publications

• "History of Land Tenure in Pre-1954 Vietnam," Journal of Contemporary Asia, Vol. 23 No. 1 (January 1993): 84-92.
• "Land Tenure in Vietnam After 1954," The South East Asian Review, Vol. XVIII, Nos. 1 & 2 (Jan-Dec 1993): 47-57.
• "Determinants of the Size of Government," Journal for Studies in Economics and Econometrics, Vol. 18 No. 2 (August 1994): 1-14.
• "Government Consumption, Economic Growth, and Cointegration: An Empirical Test of Wagner's Law," Studi Economici, No. 53, 1994/2: 55-65.
• "Determinants of Government Expenditures: New Evidence From Disaggregative Data," Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 57, No. 1 (February 1995): 67-76.
• "A Competitive Model of the Growth of Government," (with Hadi S. Esfahani); Journal of Economic Studies, Vol. 22 No. 2 (1995): 4-20.
• "Monetary Policy, Output and Inflation in Bangladesh: A Dynamic Analysis," (with Abdur R. Chowdhury and Abu N.M. Wahid) Applied Economics Letters, Vol. 2 No. 3 (March 1995): 51-55. A longer version is reprinted in The Economy of Bangladesh: Problems and Prospects, Abu N.M. Wahid and Charles Weis, editors, Praeger, Westport, Conn. (1996): 107-18.
• "Government Consumption and Economic Growth in Middle-Income Economies," Journal for Studies in Economics and Econometrics, Vol.19 No. 2 (August 1995): 1-11.
• "Brunei: An Economy in Transition," Journal of Contemporary Asia, Vol. 26 No. 4, (October 1996): 505-11.
• "Tests of a Competitive Model of the Size and Growth of Government ,"(with Hadi S. Esfahani) Journal of Economic Studies, Vol. 26 No. 3, (1999): 209-20.
• "Empirical Regularities on the Growth of Government," Journal for Studies in Economics and Econometrics, Vol. 25 No. 3, (2001): 1-29.
• "James M. Buchanan (1919- ): A Pioneer of Public Economics and the Laureate of 1986," in The Frontiers of Economics: Nobel Laureates 1969-99, Abu N.M. Wahid, editor, Greenwood Press, Westport, Conn. ( April 2002).
• "An Analysis of Growth of Urbanization in Developing Economies," Journal of Developing Areas, Vol. 36 No.1, (Fall 2002): 81-91.
• "Determinants of Internal Migration in Developing Countries," Studi Economici, No. 77, 2002/2: 35-51.
• "The Growth of Public Expenditure: A Survey of the Literature," Journal for Studies in Economics and Econometrics, Vol. 27 No. 1, (April 2003): 1-19.
• "Rural Poverty in Developing Countries: An Empirical Analysis," Journal of Economic Studies, Vol. 31 No.6, (November 2004): 500-8.
• "Educating Children in Developing Countries: An Empirical Analysis, Studi Economici, n. 85, 2005/1: 89-104.
• "Youth, Poverty Reduction, and Economic Growth in Developing Countries," Journal of International Business and Economics, Vol. VII, No. 2, (2007), 131-38.
• "The Impact of Investment Climate Indicators on Gross Capital Formation in Developing Countries," Journal of Developing Areas, Vol. 42, No. 1, (Fall 2008): 155-63.
• "An Empirical Analysis of the Determinants of Fertility in Developing Countries," Journal for Studies in Economics and Econometrics, Vol. 32 No. 1, (April 2008): 47-55.
• "Human Capital, Poverty, and Income Distribution in Developing Countries," Journal of Economic Studies, Vol. 35, No. 4 (October 2008): 294-303..
• "Inequality in Developing Countries: An Empirical Assessment," Journal of International Finance and Economics, forthcoming.
• "The Determinants of Infrastructure Development in Developing Countries," Journal for Studies in Economics and Econometrics, forthcoming.