During the communist period, Poland experienced an educational revolution: millions of people moved up from primary to lower- und upper-secondary education. At the same time, completed fertility dropped substantially from 2.48 in the 1932 cohort to 2.22 for women born in 1962. This article...

For the last two decades our world has experienced increasing globalization linked to the revolution in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) leading to new business spheres escaping from the traditional Nation-State control. The gaming business is one of these areas and has recorded...

The article investigates some indicators of social dynamics in Ukraine that allow to estimate the degree of effectiveness of the state power institution in the market conditions from the point of the goal to ensure social progress of community.

The institute of social responsibility is regarded in the article as mandatory addition to market' institutes and to the institute of state power, because it reduces transaction costs in the socio-economic system by eliminating the relations of discrimination. The most important function of...

The Great Hanshin-Awaji (Kobe) earthquake hit Japan in 1995, causing devastating damage to the economic landscape of southern-central Japan. However, the earthquake also caused people to realize the importance of social capital in Japan. Based on a large, individual-level database comprising...

Knowledge has been defined as a major resource for development. Especially countries without natural resources have found this idea attractive and have embarked on development strategies to develop a knowledge-based economy. In doing so they may fall into a “knowledge trap”. The paper...

Since 1950s, most African nations have gained independence from their colonial powers. Fortunately, independence has brought many changes to these nations and these include multi-party democratic government and western education systems. Unfortunately, the Africa’s economy is the least...

Research and Science Today Journal is a publication founded in 2011 and it is dedicated to the students of all levels (license, master and doctoral) of faculties in the country and abroad. We want to offer the participants the opportunity to present their scientific works in the following areas:...

High school baseball is very popular in Japan. All games of the high school baseball tournaments are publicly broadcasted. This paper hypothesizes that high school baseball influences the happiness level of the Japanese. Individual level data in Japan was used to test this hypothesis. The key...

Corruption as an institutional factor of the state regulatory efficiency is seen in disfunction of distributed decision-making system at the national level. The effectiveness of state power is determined by the development of non-discretionary decision-making mechanisms and institutional...