... the role of culture in productivity growth using large-scale data sources. The authors show that culture plays an important role in productivity gains across countries, contributing to the study of the effects of culture on economic development, and that culture can be empirically measured and linked...

...Evangelos Tsoukatos; Carmen Rodrigues‐Santos; Ilan Bijaoui; Suhail Sultan; Shlomo Yedidia Tarba Purpose The main purpose of this paper is to propose a model of economic development able to generate a cross‐border sustainable economic development, in regions in conflict. The Italian industrial...

... their past colonial masters whom they had fought and got rid of to be independent. Practical implications The implications are that these former colonies have had to face reality and work with some western countries (including their past colonial foes) in order to foster economic development. In so doing...