... 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 productive...

...-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...

... with “le jour”), “the day where there will be manifested the work of freely associated men, consciously active/operating and masters of their own social movement.” That (first) French version/edition must be taken very seriously because: © MCB UP Limited 2001 Russia Economy Capitalism...

...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...

... and economic theory through concomitantly disappearing from the intellectual firmament. 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 of other creatures. Those...

... to “work on what has been spoiled” and remove the cause of decay, human freedom must be restricted and tradition respected. In this sense, market competition needs to be curtailed, rather than encouraged as has been happening for the last three decades or so in the US economy. Indeed, contrary...

...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 © MCB UP Limited 1999 --> 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...

... growth and migration, particularly in less developed economies. Contrary to the popular belief, sustainable development strategy stresses not the need to conserve but the need to develop and allows natural resources and the environment to be utilised if that can produce long‐term net benefits...

...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...

...L.A. Duhs 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 Society Halsey and his co‐editors...

... for raising standards, [albeit] it remains an open question as to whether the degree of polarisation predicted by its critics will eventuate” (p. 361). A.H.   Halsey , H.   Lauder , P.   Brown , Amy Stuart   Wells Editors . Education: Culture, Economy, Society . Oxford University...

...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...