... 18 02 2026 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2026 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Afghanistan Culture Development Economy Poverty Tradition Tribe Economic development is a qualitative process that goes beyond mere growth to include expanding...

...-use rights only Intellectual capital Economy Financial stability Credit risk GMM Even though the majority of research in the banking industry has been undertaken to evaluate the efficiency, risk, and profitability of the banking company, there has been very little attention paid...

...Hway-Boon Ong; Sajiah Husna Mohd-Audi-Tye Purpose By 2040, 14.5% of Malaysia’s population will consist of those aged 65 years and above. The purpose of this paper is to examine the time-varying impact of an ageing population on the economy of Malaysia. Design/methodology/approach...

... important risk factors assumed by shareholders and moneylenders. The following are amongst the risk factors for consideration: traffic variation, investment in construction variation and in exploitation expenditures and inflation variation and interest rates considered. Public transport Metro Economy...

...Gregory L. Bier Leaders of the world economy take the infrastructure dimension of the environment for granted. As these leaders attempt to develop trade with third‐world countries they are naÏve about constraints placed on development by past civil strife. When the international community helps...

...Vladimer Papava The paper offers a new view of the process of post‐Communist transformation of an economy. The collapse of the Communist regime had the result that with rare exceptions all goods produced in these countries were incompatible with international standards due to low quality...

...Thea Vinnicombe; Richard Staveley Thomas Hobbes and John Locke are typically linked with the foundations of political economy, while at the same time, Locke’s teaching is regarded as differing substantively from that of Hobbes. Locke, in fact, differs from Hobbes on only one substantive issue...

... in the literature. However, the exploding literature has so far presented conflicting results. The aim of this paper is to review the literature in this field and to present new evidence on income disparities in China’s regional economies. This study is based on the application of regional GDP figures covering...

...Clem Tisdell As former communist countries have proceeded with market reforms, they have become more enmeshed in the international economy and their involvement in economic globalisation continues to grow. While economic theory suggests that this should bring several economic advantages...

... welcomed such a systemic “triumph”. Wherein resides the truth in all of this? The paper essays to bring us a stride closer. Russia Economy Capitalism Marxian economics Religion Socialism The present essay is proposed as an integration and super‐session of two recent efforts by the same...

... and economic theory through concomitantly disappearing from the intellectual firmament. © MCB UP Limited 2000 Economy Capitalism Economic theory The human individual is a nobody. He is one among six billion in his own species and his primeval appetites are shared with hundreds of trillions...

... for the individual may be bad for the community. The second is that what is good for the community may also be good for the individual. © MCB UP Limited 2000 USA Economy Economics Ethics Moral responsibility The I‐Ching, or Book of Changes, though primarily considered...

...Charles Harvie The last decade of this century has witnessed the transition of the formerly centrally planned economies of Europe and Asia to market economies, a process affecting some 1.7 billion people in 28 countries. While much agreement exists on the sorts of reform measures required...

...Geoff Harris Economy Employment Informal markets Tanzania Pay The central question which this impressive book tries to answer is how low income residents in Dar es Salaam coped with declining real wages, which fell by 83 per cent between 1974 and 1988. The short answer is that large...

... management can be quite successful in conserving common property resources if the following preconditions are fulfilled: © MCB UP Limited 1999 Conservation Economy India Management Pricing Water industry It is now well recognised that substantial underpricing of the planet’s...

...Asfaw Kumssa; John F. Jones Transition from a centrally planned to a free market economy has its social costs. These range from loss or diminution of a social welfare net to widespread unemployment. This is true of Asian countries adopting a gradualist approach to the free market, African countries...

... and, hence, educational attainment” (p. 389; also see p. 177). A.H.   Halsey , H.   Lauder , P.   Brown , Amy Stuart   Wells Editors . Education: Culture, Economy, Society . Oxford University Press , 1997 . pp. 819 © MCB UP Limited 1998 --> Economy Education...

...L.A. Duhs Economy Education Society Halsey and his co‐editors describe this book as a third attempt to review the scope and trends of sociological writing on education. The book is divided into six parts, on themes including Education, the Global Economy and the Labour Market...

...Haishun Sun; Joseph Chai Discusses the pattern of the regional distribution in the Chinese economy of Direct foreign investment (DFI) in the context of the open‐door policy and the regional difference in investment environments. Presents a regression analysis on the effects of DFI on the economic...

...Lee Hanson This article addresses social dimensions and implications of the rise of the information, skill‐intensive economy based on self‐managing teams. The basis of the paper is an historical analysis of how “Taylorist” industrialization suppressed the self‐directing, team‐based labour process...