The movement of many countries towards knowledge-based economic development requires the transition to more effective … advancement towards knowledge-based economic development. There is currently no accepted general framework to analyze national … context of knowledge-based economic development and achievement of accompanying economic, political, and social objectives. …

This article traces the evolution of knowledge-based economic development in the Arab World. In pursuing this objective … effectiveness of Arab investments in human capital shows marginal progress towards knowledge-based development over the last decade … employers relegates Arab businesses to contesting lower-skilled, non-knowledge intensive industries which has stalled knowledge …

Portugal, USA, European Union and EuroZone as well as on some categories of aggregate consumption in Portugal. By the use of a … European Union and Euro Zone) is more persistent than in the USA and in Portugal. In particular, the relatively lower degree of … persistence shown by the consumption in Portugal can be beneficial for the effectiveness of the countercyclical fiscal and …

The goal of this paper is to test for the presence of long memory in final energy demand in Portugal. Our findings … suggest the presence of long memory in aggregate and disaggregate energy demand in Portugal. All fractional …