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Africa's Knowledge Economy And Links To India, Anand Kulkarni
Africa's Knowledge Economy And Links To India, Anand Kulkarni
International Review of Business and Economics
Competitive advantage for economies, both developed and developing, will be increasingly based on knowledge in all its forms, including science and technology, smart entrepreneurship, and new business and organizational development models. Due to COVID-19, the need for innovative solutions to health and economic disruptions has never been as keenly felt. This paper is structured in five parts. The first part examines the extent to which various countries in Sub-Saharan Africa participate in the global knowledge economy. Data is drawn from the UN Knowledge Index and canvases knowledge economy parameters such as research and development, value-added industrial production and knowledge-intensive services, …
The Great Consensus After The Great Recession: The Case Of Jamaica, Anthony N. Iacovelli
The Great Consensus After The Great Recession: The Case Of Jamaica, Anthony N. Iacovelli
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The purpose of this research was to determine the efficacy of the International Monetary Fund’s Stabilization Program (IMFSP) as a tool for economic development. The Fund’s program utilizes an approach steeped in the Washington Conesus, which requires austere and demand side economic measures to be taken to achieve success. To determine efficacy, Jamaica was used as a case study, where special attention paid to the supply side economic consideration of human capital development in Health and Education. Additionally, this paper contrasted the IMF approach with a case study of Singapore and the Developmentalist approach to economic development. The research provided …
A Study On Business Ethics In Corporate Social Responsibility, K. Khasimpeera, M Sugunatha Reddy Ph.D.
A Study On Business Ethics In Corporate Social Responsibility, K. Khasimpeera, M Sugunatha Reddy Ph.D.
International Review of Business and Economics
Morals and Corporate Social Responsibility are perceived as significant worries in settling on choice in all parts of our life. What’s more, it’s adding to quicken the procedure of in generalimprovementofacountry.India being the second most crowded nation on the planet, and have the biggest number of individuals needing essential pleasantries call for progressively escalated endeavors as a major aspect of such activities in the medicinal services space of the country. We as a whole realize that individuals take part in business to win benefit. Be that as it may, making benefit isn’t the sole capacity of the business. It performs …
Under Utilization Of Human Resource And Its Management- A Case Study Of Purba Khairbari Village, Alipurduar, West Bengal, Arunima Bhattacharya
Under Utilization Of Human Resource And Its Management- A Case Study Of Purba Khairbari Village, Alipurduar, West Bengal, Arunima Bhattacharya
International Review of Business and Economics
The notion that workers could be seen as a potential asset was subsequently in use during the 1910s and 1920s and was termed “human resource”.Human resources play an important part in developing and making a country. Women educationandparticipationisvitalfor economic development because it can directly influence on entrepreneurship, productivity growth and then increases employment opportunities and women empowerment. The paperthrows light on the gloomy scenario of under utilization of women work power in the Purba Khairbari village (J.L.No. 36), Madarihat Block of Alipurduar District, West Bengal. It also shows the positive correlation between education and employment of women. However, certain corrective …
Institutions, The State, And Economic Development: An Analysis And Evaluation Of Ha-Joon Chang's Critique Of The Dominant Discourse And His Thoughts On State-Led Development Theory, Luke M. Jackson
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This paper examines two distinct schools of thought on how to best spur economic activity in developing economies. Mainstream economists, like Hernando De Soto and Douglass North, argue private property rights and free markets, and the institutions which nourish and protect them, are the primary driver of economic growth. Heterodox economists, led by prominent author and economist Ha-Joon Chang, acknowledge institutions play an important role in inducing economic activity but challenge the notion institutions are the primary driver of development. They argue targeted state-led investment and regulation are as important, if not more important, than protecting market freedom and private …
The Resource Curse: The Cases Of Botswana And Zambia, Audria Crain
The Resource Curse: The Cases Of Botswana And Zambia, Audria Crain
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A puzzling correlation has been observed over the last thirty years between slow or negative economic growth and countries with large export dependence on natural resources. This correlation has been dubbed "the resource curse." It has been argued that resource wealth has an inherently negative effect on the economic growth of developing countries. Zambia is such a country in which resource-dependence has been coupled with poor economic performance; Botswana, however, is an important exception to this phenomenon. The question is: Why or how has Botswana surmounted the effects of the resource curse while Zambia has not? A comparative case analysis …