For over a decade, The Wall Street Journal and The Heritage Foundation, Washington's preeminent think tank, have tracked the march of economic freedom around the world with the influential Index of Economic Freedom. Since 1995, the Index has brought Smith's theories about liberty, prosperity and...

The directory of development organizations, listing 70,000 development organizations, has been prepared to facilitate international cooperation and knowledge sharing in development work, both among civil society organizations, academic and research institutions, governments and the private sector.

Die internationale Gemeinschaft unternimmt seit Jahren erhebliche Anstrengungen, umEntwicklungs- und Schwellenländer auf einen stabilen Wachstumspfad zu führen. Dabei istman zunehmend zu der Erkenntnis gelangt, dass ein wesentlicher Schwerpunkt der Entwicklungszusammenarbeitauf die...

Das Internet und die multimedialen Möglichkeiten des World Wide Web habendazu geführt, dass eine neue Industrie um die innovativen Technologien und Geschäftsmodelleentstanden ist. Mittlerweile wird - in Abgrenzung zu den Geschäftsmodellender Old Economy - von der New Economy gesprochen.So...

A recent phenomenon of globalisation has come to be known as "Knowledge Process Outsourcing" (KPO), whereby knowledge-intensive R&D work is outsourced to an outside firm or an offshore-subsidiary. Primary motives of KPO are thought to be availability of highly-skilled labour, locations of...

This paper investigates the effect of business regulations on various measures of entrepreneurship. Using data for a sample of countries participation in the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor between 2002 and 2005, we estimate a two-equation model explaining the nascent and the actual...

Vorliegendes Arbeitspapier untersucht die internationalen Entwicklung von Arbeitseinstellungen auf der Basis einer groß angelegten Untersuchung.

In the late 80s and 90s economic science failed to forecast major systemic crises and collapses. The same may happen with the case of China. The paper develops an analytical frame of reference by applying the conceptual tools of the French regulation school ...