Many warn that the next stage of globalization--the offshoring of research and development to China and India …--prosperity at home, and why trying to maintain the U.S. lead by subsidizing more research or training more scientists will do more … harm than good. When breakthrough ideas have no borders, a nation's capacity to exploit cutting-edge research regardless of …

Until recently, academia has largely neglected the impact of religion on sustainable development. However, empirical … studies have shown that religion remains important in many societies and that its importance has been increasing since the … beginning of the new millennium. This paper reviews the empirical quantitative literature on the effect of religion on …