...Sayed Mohammad Firozi Purpose This study aims to identify the key socio-cultural barriers and enabling factors influencing Afghanistan's economic development and to explain how these shape its developmental trajectory. Design/methodology/approach Adopting an interpretive paradigm...

...Zhaochen He; Yixiao Jiang; Rik Chakraborti; Thomas D. Berry Purpose This study aims to uncover the extent to which cultural traits may explain the puzzling international divergence in COVID-19 outcomes, and how those traits interact with state action to produce compliance with pandemic health...

...Marina Morales; Jorge Velilla Purpose This paper empirically examines whether the cultural environment plays a role in entrepreneurial decisions in Europe, the United States, Canada and Australia. Design/methodology/approach To explore this issue, we use data from the Adult Population Survey...

...Alfredo A. Romero; Jeffrey A. Edwards Purpose Injections of foreign direct investment (FDI) are often followed by injections of foreign culture which may not be well received among the local population. If this is the case, culture may impede any positive externalities from FDI. On the other hand...

... that the existence and persistence of weak economic institutions in Africa is more of design than destiny. That is, weak economic institutions are created and sustained more by bad political institutions rather than cultural diversity and geographical factors. Therefore, strong political institutions need...

... be contacted at: kenneth.taylor@villanova.edu 17 02 2016 05 07 2016 06 07 2016 Political economics Productivity Income distribution Culture Economic philosophy/theory Social evolution After a pause between the great wars of the twentieth century, western civilization...

...Mohamed Ismail Sabry Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the effect of Public Private Dialogues (PPD) on cronyism accounting for various cultural and governance institutions. Design/methodology/approach It proposes a number of hypotheses on: whether PPD characterized by high...

...Ahmad Raza; Hasan Sohaib Murad; Muhammad Zakria Zakar Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the critical interrelationships between poverty, culture and knowledge-based community development. Design/methodology/approach – The traditional approaches to the management of poverty...

... nature is active and goal seeking and that humans act in culturally conditional ways – that is, their actions are learned (quoted in Radzicki, 2003). Thus, within these original institutionalists line of thinking, tolerance certainly mattered for societal progress as tolerance led to emergence of new...

... the conception of capabilities and the concept of the Human Development Index; an analysis of the available cultural statistics, as well as a study of two revealing case studies, that of Bilbao, Spain and Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, as distinct and alternative examples of the employment of arts as a stimulus...

... viable local societies per 2030. Originality/value – In this paper the authors demonstrate that cultural creatives in the USA give a relevant context for interpreting attitudes to change in small societies in Northern Norway. Dr Ove Jakobsen can be contacted at: ove.jakobsen@uin.no © Authors...

...Annie Tubadji; Nataly Gnezdilova Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the link between redistribution, convergence and local cultural capital (as defined by culture-based development concept). Design/methodology/approach – The paper infers the basic mechanism of the cultural...

... of markets which retain some local or regional integrity from those which have become largely removed from cultural or communal social bonds. An example is between markets trading in goods and services with a consumer base which is local and subsistence, and markets in derivative products...

.... Culture Politics of identity and difference Public choice Rational choice This paper's objective is to put forward an equation suitable for modelling the changes in population proportion of types. Types are defined based on the heterogeneity of agent preferences or behavioural rules...

.... Such a comprehensive meta‐narrative that builds alliances and creates a foundation for enlightened and effective politics of development aid will “unleash”, empower and protect the full potential of Africa. What is so crucial to consider is that aid culture is limited just to promoting economic growth rather than...

...: […] there is probably not a single culture in the world that does not constitute heterotopias [two types]: heterotopias of crisis […] privileged or sacred, or forbidden places, reserved for individuals who are, in relation to society and to the human environment in which they live, in a state of crisis...

...Annie Tubadji Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide a comprehensive concept for the role of culture in economic growth. Design/methodology/approach The paper overviews the culture based development (CBD) concept and its precise definition of culture as an encompassing socio‐economic...

... economics in order to understand its success and problems. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Bali Culture Social norms Communities Local economies Lietaer and De Meulenaere (2003) describe from an anthropological point of view how Balinese sustain their ancient culture...

...Ilyess El Karouni Purpose Through Chinese experience, the purpose of this paper is to underpin the hypothesis of institutional change as cultural change. Design/methodology/approach The paper compares Chinese postsocialist transformation to a chemical change reaction. So, the paper discerns...

...Paul Ponsaers; Joanna Shapland; Colin Williams; Laurence Massy Purpose The paper aims to present both the legal and illegal aspects of the market in antiquities, specifically cultural objects which are transported from source countries to countries where they are sold or auctioned. Design...