This paper focuses on the theme of women entrepreneurs, business and gender in two transitional economies, namely Nigeria and China. As the OECD Conferences on Women Entrepreneurs in Small and Medium Enterprises held in Paris in 1997 and 2000 pointed out, a situation where women are...

This paper relates to government initiatives which aim at advancing their country’s economic development and investor attractiveness. It identifies large scale projects that involve collaboration between government and business (termed: large scale collaborative venture – LSCV) as one aspect...

Ever since the Bolton Report (1971), academics and policy makers have looked towards the small business sector as a primary source of economic development, innovation and growth. The realisation that fast growing SMEs are major contributors to economic prosperity has also seen these firms being...

The Italian Industrial Districts (IDs) are now considered in the national and international literature as one of the main factors of the successful and rapid industrial development of Italy after the Second World War. In this paper we outline the general characteristics of the IDs approach and...

Poor child health and nutrition persist throughout West Africa. This research analyzes the impact of key economic variables, including income, education and background characteristics, on child health and nutrition across nine different countries. The results are interpreted in the context of...

The Italian Industrial Districts (IDs) are now considered in the national and international literatureas one of the main factors of the successful and rapid industrial development of Italy after theSecond World War. In this paper we outline the general characteristics of the IDs approach andthen...

The impact of entrepreneurial activity on the economies of both industrialised and developingcountries has been well established and theorised in the normative literature. However, it is besideseminent that the development of entrepreneurial activities and behaviour, through facilitation...

"While the Icelandic fisheries have been managed by individual transferable quotas (ITQs) for almost a decade and the fisheries sector seems to be performing well in economical terms, there is still no consensus about quota issue. Lately, the difficult situation of fisheries communities short of...

We analyze a multi-sector growth model with directed technical change where man-made capital and exhaustible resources are essential for production. The relative profitability of factor-specific innovations endogenously determines whether technical progress will be capital- or...

This paper is based on an application of complex systems' approach toeconomics with the objective of explaining the micro, meso andmacroeconomic mechanisms of development. The complex systems' approachmakes it possible to tackle the problem of evolution and economicdevelopment under conditions...