Technology has always played a decisive role in humanity's progress, although the positive impacts technology has on human development may become tainted by the risks it entails. This book emphasizes the need to consider the geographic, historic, and cultural context of an information...

May 2000 - A higher share of income for the middle class and lower ethnic polarization are empirically associated with higher income, higher growth, more education, better health, better infrastructure, better economic policies, less political instability, less civil war (putting ethnic...

The importance of natural resource revenues in resource-rich countries is one of the main issues in the last two decades. Meanwhile, the major impact of financial development has been neglected during the process of accessing resource-based sustainable economic growth. Therefore, the novelty of...