This paper provides a simple development mechanism for African nations, where economic development is low due to not only low level of physical capital but also poor social capital that leads to lot of conflicts. The study suggests for development of social capital, which is a broader concept...

Is income equality a precondition for higher school performance and higher educational mobility? Or is the opposite true? We test empirically whether school performance and intergenerational transmission of educational attainment is depending on income equality on the local level. Using Swiss...

What are the potential sources of growth and how is the convergence process of the Portuguese economy within the EU characterised? We answer this question by determining the most suitable specification of the aggregate production function, CES or Cobb-Douglas, for the EU countries as in...