This researchs stress on three important issues of economic freedom, domestic and international research and Development (R&D) and productivity growth by using Panel Dynamic Ordinary Least Square (P-DOLS) proposed by Stock and Watson (1993) in estimating 37 selected developing countries that classified based on income level for the time period 2000 to 2010. To encourage domestic and international R&D activities, host and home countries must have a "good" institution like economic freedom. The main focus of this study is on economic freedom that we examine the role of economic freedom as a mediating factor of domestic and international R&D on productivity growth based on different income level on developing countries. The findings indicate that there are mixed results that show positive and negative relationship of the role economic freedom as mediating factor on domestic and international R&D on productivity growth.

Abstract-In the recent years, the influx of women in business continues to record poor performance in combating the poverty. Poverty is rampant and become main issue in developing countries, as it will improve the socioeconomic of the countries. The objective of this research is to find out the contributing factors in alleviating poverty for women entrepreneurship. A total of 196 samples were collected from women entrepreneurship in Terengganu and Kelantan. Data analysis was conducted using SPSS 20.0. The results indicate that the personality, cultural, environment, microfinance and entrepreneurial were the factors influenced in alleviating poverty among women entrepreneurs.

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