Search Results - subject:"Social progress"

The World Social Situation: Development Challenges at the Outset of a New Century

Estes, Richard - In: Social Indicators Research 98 (2010) 3, pp. 363-402

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009402624

A new class of measures of the standard of living based on functionings

Gaertner, Wulf; Xu, Yongsheng - In: Economic Theory 35 (2008) 2, pp. 201-215

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005370712

Learning from failure, ambiguity and trust in social enterprise

Seanor, Pam; Meaton, Julia - In: Social Enterprise Journal 4 (2008) 1, pp. 24-40

Purpose – The paper aims to present case studies to uncover the reflections of key participants in a social enterprise network in West Yorkshire. It considers how they learn from failure and how they make sense of the variety of messages about, and approaches to, social enterprise....

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015014280

Asia and the new century: challenges and opportunities

Estes, Richard - In: Social Indicators Research 82 (2007) 3, pp. 375-410

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009400274

Development challenges and opportunities confronting economies in transition

Estes, Richard - In: Social Indicators Research 83 (2007) 3, pp. 375-411

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009402336

The “missing links” between Islamic development objectives and the current practice of Islamic banking – the experience of the Sudanese Islamic banks (SIBs)

Ibrahim, Badr El Din A. - In: Humanomics: The International Journal of Systems and Ethics 22 (2006) May, pp. 55-66

Purpose – To vindicate whether or not there are signs of social and developmental role in the current practice of Islamic banking in Sudan, a criterion required by the rules guiding the Islamic circulation of money and investment. Design/methodology/approach – The objective of the paper is...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005011462

Structural adjustment, governance, economic growth and social progress

Agarwal, Manmohan; Samanta, Sayan - In: The Journal of International Trade & Economic Development 15 (2006) 3, pp. 387-401

performance. It does this by developing indices to measure social progress, measured by achievement of the Millennium Development … capital income. Economic growth is not correlated with social progress, structural adjustment or governance. However …, structural adjustment is not inimical to social progress. Furthermore, while the governance index is not correlated with growth …

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Rethinking social capital theory: a knowledge management perspective

McElroy, Mark W.; Jorna, René J.; van Engelen, Jo - In: Journal of Knowledge Management 10 (2006) 5, pp. 124-136

Purpose – This paper seeks to argue the relevance of knowledge management (KM) to the development of social capital, and to enhancing the capacity to take effective action in human social systems. Design/methodology/approach – The study applies a pluralistic definition of knowledge...

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The “missing links” between Islamic development objectives and the current practice of Islamic banking – the experience of the Sudanese Islamic banks (SIBs)

El Din A. Ibrahim, Badr - In: Humanomics 22 (2006) 2, pp. 55-66

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014745301

Development Challenges of the "New Europe"

Estes, Richard - In: Social Indicators Research 69 (2004) 2, pp. 123-166

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