... Licensed re-use rights only Economics Health care Entrepreneurship Developing countries Covid-19 Digital health care business India The Covid-19 pandemic has created significant gaps in the networks for education, health and social security and the persistence of a major digital divide...

... Denkenbergercan be contacted at: ddenkenb@Tnstate.edu 18 04 2018 26 05 2018 30 05 2018 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2018 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Economics Food manufacturing processes Existential risk A number of catastrophes could...

... Limited 2015 Economics Forecasting Inflation Artificial neural network G-7 countries Hyperbolic tangent function Neural network Mean square error Backpropagation learning To select best neural model, backpropagation algorithm using steepest gradient technique has been applied...

... global economic scenarios to 2020, and will consider their impacts across a range of low income countries. Design/methodology/approach The scenarios were developed using a version of the morphological scenarios approach, Field anomaly relaxation (FAR). This approach creates a backdrop...

.... This paper seeks to contribute to this emergent body of thought by developing a “whole economy” approach for capturing the multifarious economic practices in community economies and then applying this to an English locality. Design/methodology/approach A survey conducted of the economic...

.../approach The findings of a 2001 survey of household economic practices in eight CIS are analysed, namely Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Moldova, Russia and Ukraine. Findings This study reveals a shallow permeation of capitalist practices in the CIS and how an array...

...Clement Bezold; Claudia Juech; Evan Michelson; William Lyakurwa Purpose The purpose of this paper is to discuss the potential of the present drivers of economic governance, trade and investment, and also to envision their intersections and cross‐cutting impacts on poverty and human development...

...Simon Forge Purpose The purpose of the paper is to report on a novel approach to assessing long‐term policy and technology impacts. This approach combines a qualitative forecast with a tri‐level quantitative projection to provide a broadly socio‐economic analysis. It is aimed at forecasting...

... a Foresight exercise through the lenses of the Triple Helix model. Economics Stakeholder analysis Italy Much of the current interest in Foresight, and Technology Foresight especially, stems from the recognition that long term planning of research and innovation is unavoidable in an era...

... not counted in Iraq since Saddam Hussein. Democracy Law Justice Culture Economics Men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible (Sir Isaiah Berlin in Berlin and Hardy (2002, p...

...Colin Williams; John Round Purpose A long‐standing meta‐narrative regarding the future of work is that, over history, economic activity has shifted from the informal into the formal economy and that the informal economy is now a residue existing only in the margins. This paper aims to evaluate...

...Michel Godet; Philippe Durance Purpose This paper aims to explore the links between demographics and economics and to show how European institutions (like the European Commission) and European policies are slowly but surely taking into account these fundamental relations. Design...

... drive toward increasing unsustainability. This study seeks to examine this issue Design/methodology/approach Reviews the current scientific debate about the unwarranted predominance of economics in public and private decision making; whether economics is a science or a profession...

... areas also have implications for the pattern of mobility that may not always be considered when these they are made. Past growth in transport demand has closely followed growth in the economy but economic growth has itself enabled the development of transport infrastructure that in turn facilitates...

... and communications technology constitutes a challenge for traditional economic thought. This paper explores the characteristics of the information society and the global economy from the perspective of the developing countries of Latin America, and the potential of the digital economy to transform social...

.... Special attention is given to non economic behavior and the conditions under which knowledge spills over effectively in a face‐to‐face setting. Forthcoming are added reasons for believing that face‐to‐face communication will remain important, but also provide a basis for arguing that, in time...

... of the authorities is to focus on the training and guidance of entrepreneurs and citizens in the difficult transition process from the existing socio‐economic structure to the new. © MCB UP Limited 2003 The building blocks of Fourastié’s foresight can be found in Le Grand Espoir du XXe Siècle...

... in favor of science and technology, will be reborn in those institutions that can rise above the mundane and embrace an emerging “third culture”. © MCB UP Limited 2002 Universities Research Education Teaching Finance Economics The university concerns itself with three broad areas...

...Jyh‐Hong Lin In spite of strong economic recovery since 2000, the worst of the financial crisis in Asia may not be over. This article uses a predictive‐cultural‐critical framework to consider possible futures for economic development in the region. In the predictive dimension, the economic outlook...

... and economic forces; and the interfacing of scientific, humanistic and spiritual domains. Burke finally is so persuaded that the forces of synthesis will bring about incredible change that he explicitly crosses over from technology to theology by calling it the “great convergence”. It will be finally...