Provision of safe drinking water, adequate sanitation and personal hygiene are vital for the sustainable environmental conditions and reducing the incidence of diarrhoea, malaria, trachoma, hepatitis A & B and morbidity levels. Not having access to water and sanitation is a courteous expression...

We estimate the long-term effect of public R&D on growth in manufacturing by analyzing new data from the Cold War era Space Race. We develop a novel empirical strategy that leverages US-Soviet rivalry in space technology to isolate windfall R&D spending. Our results demonstrate that public R&D...

Since 1980, US wage growth has been fastest in large cities. Empirically, we show that most of this urban-biased growth reflects wage growth at large Business Services firms, which are also the most intensive users of information and communications technology (ICT) capital in the US economy. We...

This paper focuses on the role of interregional technology spillovers in the process of industrial growth in Chinese regions in the period 1990-2005. Inflows of FDI increased rapidly from 1990 till 1998, slowing down thereafter. Domestic R&D investment accelerated after 1998. Regional industrial...

Доклад посвящен исследованию некоторых итогов социально-экономического развития постсоветских стран и их взаимного сотрудничества за двадцать лет...

В докладе исследовано влияние взаимных отношений на социально-экономическое развитие России и Украины. Проанализированы реальные процессы в сфере взаимных...

Доклад посвящен исследованию некоторых итогов социально-экономического развития постсоветских стран и их взаимного сотрудничества за двадцать лет...

Доклад посвящен анализу трансформации пространства Южного Кавказа. В сравнительном плане показаны особенности структурно-экономического и социального...

Доклад посвящен исследованию некоторых итогов социально-экономического развития постсоветских стран и их взаимного сотрудничества за двадцать лет...

We investigate the relationship between corruption and political stability, from both theoretical and empirical perspectives. We propose a model of incumbent behavior that features the interplay of two effects : A horizon effect, whereby greater instability leads the incumbent to embezzle more...