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The role of education in economic development: a theoretical perspective
Ozturk, Ilhan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2001
Education in every sense is one of the fundamental factors of development. No country can achieve sustainable economic … development without substantial investment in human capital. Education enriches people’s understanding of themselves and world. It … improves the quality of their lives and leads to broad social benefits to individuals and society. Education raises people …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005619571
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The Impact of the Microchip on the Card Frauds
Ardizzi, Guerino - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
the positive effects of the new technology: the ratio between fraud and ATM-POS transactions (card fraud loss rate) is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257725
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A computer-based system for the management of field crop pests
Bhatti, Saeed Akhtar; Hameed, Nabeela; Chaudhri, Inayatullah - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1991
This article describes an expert system, COT-XPERT, developed for controlling insects and diseases affecting cotton crop as well as system for Rice Stem Borers (RSB) simulation. The system works in two parts. The first part addresses the issues of efficient use of knowledge for RSB problems and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112133
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The Road out of Crisis and the Policy Choices Facing Russia
Freeman, Alan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
workforce with the high levels of education and skills required to make modern technology effective - instead of passing through … bringing into being the type of workforce that is required to make use of leading-edge technology. On the other hand …, industrial development in the modern economy depends critically on human development, precisely because of modern technology …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260174
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Culture, Labour, and Resources: Principles of a Practical Alternative Growth Path
Freeman, Alan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
dependency on resource exploitation and the sustainability of the chosen growth path With few notable exceptions, social theory … the changed role of urban spaces and the interaction between cultural activity and new technology. This paper is based on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260737
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Investing In Civilization
Freeman, Alan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
, shelter, clothing, education, or literacy during previous prolonged expansions. Society has reached a stage of material …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008728072
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Where will commoditization take us?
RYAN, JOHN; HOLMES, ANDREW - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
technology will change over the next fifty years, we are only going to look a few years ahead, which is a more sensible time …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008552784
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The Future Economic Consequences of Commoditization
Ryan, John - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
technology will change over the next fifty years, we are only going to look a few years ahead, which is a more sensible time …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005089313
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Wealth Distribution and the Provision of Public Goods: Evidence from the United States
Vollrath, Dietrich - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This paper examines the role of inequality in the provision of public goods. County level data from the U.S. in 1890 … differences in tax systems with differences in public goods provision. Climatic data is used as an instrument for land inequality … to provide identification of the effect of inequality. The results indicate that land inequality caused significantly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005616904
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Promoting Competition or Helping Less-Endowed? An Experiment on Collective Institutional Choices under Intra-Group Inequality
Kamei, Kenju - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
individual in a group wins and receives an award, generating a greater income inequality - or to have a public good that benefits … driven more by their income inequality-averse preferences. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011113335