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The paper, mostly empirical in nature, investigates issues on cross-national new information and communication technologies (ICTs) adoption patterns and growth directions. In the period of 2000-2010, a great number of countries underwent substantial changes on the field of ICTs implementation....
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The purpose of this paper is to test whether institutional governance and its performance is a main driving force to achieve a positive relationship between natural resources and economic growth in the long run. The main objective is to ascertain what kind of institutional governance would be...
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I investigate the relationship between university rankings and economic growth and found that the relationship is statistically significant. The more the number of universities that a country has in international university rankings, the higher its GDP per capita. What is more surprising is...
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The main purpose of the paper is to analyze GDP PPP per capita growth rates across countries in the period 1980-2008, as well as to identify top and bottom country performers. In addition, the author verifies the statistical relationship between GDP PPP per capita and some arbitrary selected...
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This paper examines the spatial interaction of neighboring cities over their employment cycles. The cycles of …-similar employment cycles, but neighboring cities with similar racial compositions tend to have less-similar employment cycles …
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: employment expanded most at the top of the occupational hierarchy, among managers and professionals. In parallel, mid …-paid clerical and manufacturing jobs than for low-end service employment. Yet country differences in low-paid service job creation …
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The author outlines that gender segregation in employment are relatively new for Bulgaria, and there are not many … authors it represents about 1/3 of the registered employment. The agricultural sector is one, where unregistered employment is …
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This book focuses on the critical role of employment and creation of decent work in facilitating peace in Iraq. It … economic growth leads to productive, remunerative and decent employment. This requires that the ongoing reconstruction … high level of employment and creation of decent jobs. The book also argues that careful consideration should be given to …
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seems the most appropriate manner to combine and pursue employment and financial sustainability goals. The method computes …
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This paper present an overview of the state of lifelong learning in Bulgaria from a gender perspective; reviews the progress in the public debates in this area and analyzes the implemented policies for developing lifelong learning in accordance with the European strategic objectives, including...
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