... of happiness on household indebtedness and its moderating role on the interaction between financial development and household debt. Design/methodology/approach The study employs panel data from 34 emerging and developing countries and applies the system generalized method of moments estimator to account...

... into analyzing the patterns of single-parent families in Indonesia and serve as a framework for further research on the resilience of single parents in developing countries. Finally, this study provides important insights in helping analyze the patterns of single-parent families in Indonesia in overcoming...

...Sergey Zankovsky; Vitali Bezbakh; Agnessa Inshakova; Ekaterina P. Rusakova Purpose The purpose of the research is to determine the social consequences of economic globalization based on experience of developed and developing countries and to determine the perspectives of optimization...

... development into economic growth. Findings The authors substantiate the existence of close interconnection between social development and economic growth and determine substantial differences in this interconnection in developed countries (correlation – 52%), where only purchasing power of population...

...Galina N. Semenova; Elena I. Larionova; Oleg G. Karpovich; Sergei V. Shkodinsky; Fatima M. Ouroumova Purpose The purpose of the work consists in studying social integration as a factor of economic growth. The authors focus on experience and perspectives of developing countries, as they show...

... of ethnicity in children's unpaid work in developing countries, one has to depend on the previous research that has examined the impact of ethnicity on children's schooling. Scholars such as Patrinos and Psacharopoulos (1996) have written on the implication of ethnicity on children's likelihood of dropping...

... society ties on countries' commitment to and capacity for family planning programs. It then examines the impact such programs have on child health inputs and survival. Design/methodology/approach This paper uses a cross‐national, quantitative study design on a sample of less developed countries...

... frameworks for similar country contexts. Findings Labour relations in developing countries is characterised by recent shift to market driven external environment, economically vulnerable surplus labour, low skills, inflexible employment laws, politicised unions with low labour representation, and low...

... models and was insensitive to the institutional and cultural backgrounds of these countries. Argues that because of the insensitivity, proposed policies may be doomed and could result in further economic hardship. © MCB UP Limited 2000 Pacific Islands Economics Developing countries Economy...

...Cornelius Riordan; Jaya Sarkar Describes Childreach – a US child‐focuses development organization which sponsors children and their families in developing countries – and a recent project in development education, “Buffalo banks and borewells: Childreach makes sense of development”, which involved...

... hostilities between the superpowers this is made up for and played out in regional conflicts between Third World nations. Such conflicts are provisioned by military supplies from the west. © MCB UP Limited 1987 Developing countries War This research was partially supported by University...