S. Buba, Suryati Ishak, M. Habibullah, Zaleha Mohd Noor
{"title":"The Determinants of Income Inequality in Europe: Do Trade Liberalisation and Financial Liberalisation Matter?","authors":"S. Buba, Suryati Ishak, M. Habibullah, Zaleha Mohd Noor","doi":"10.17977/UM002V11I12019P040","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17977/UM002V11I12019P040","url":null,"abstract":"This study provides evidences about the determinants of income inequality in 31 sampled countries of Europe. Prior to implementing the empirical research, the study identifies the factors, which according to theories, affects the level of income inequality. Income inequality is now an issue bordering not only the developing countries, but also the emerging and the developed ones as well. The results obtained from the estimated model enabled to draw some interesting conclusions. Firstly, quality of the rule of law determines income inequality, secondly, trade liberalisation conditions income, thirdly, level of financial development determines inequality of income and finally, education level in emerging countries decreases level of income inequality, while it increases the level of inequality in the developed countries of the continent.","PeriodicalId":55668,"journal":{"name":"Jurnal Ekonomi dan Studi Pembangunan","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42186689","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Effect of Investment Toward Economic Growth in The Local Economy","authors":"S. Yuliana, Abdul Bashir, Siti Rohima","doi":"10.17977/um002v11i12019p028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17977/um002v11i12019p028","url":null,"abstract":"This study to analyze the role of investment such as total foreign direct investment and domestic direct investment, inflation, and road infrastructure to the economic growth of South Sumatera Province, Indonesia. The data used is time series data from 2007-2015, the scope of this study is 15 districts/city in South Sumatera Province, which is sourced from the publication of Central Bureau of Statistics (BPS) and the publication of the Investment Coordinating Board (BKPM) South Sumatra Province. The analysis method in this study is quantitative analysis using data panel multiple regression model. The finding of this study that investment, inflation, and road infrastructure development jointly has positive and significant effect on the economic growth. Meanwhile, partially indicating that investment and road infrastructure have positive and significant impact to economic growth, while inflation has positive sign but insignificant effect on economic growth of South Sumatera Province","PeriodicalId":55668,"journal":{"name":"Jurnal Ekonomi dan Studi Pembangunan","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41772931","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}