This study investigates the impact of tax revenue on economic growth in the context of increasing trade openness in developing countries by using the data of 29 developing countries with accelerating economic growth during the period 2000-2020. This study further applies the Fixed Effect Model...

This article views social entrepreneurship as a relatively new model for achieving sustainable development. It also identifies development narratives that social entrepreneurs (SEs) construct to represent and promote their work as an important research gap in development studies. Drawing on the...

We explore the nature of two of the world's largest sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) by making sense of two of their controversial investments in US financial institutions. Drawing on core Benjaminian themes, we present an alternative view to purely financial accounts of those investments in terms...

While initially heralded as the magic bullet for development, NGOs have come under increasing criticism for their failure to deliver development as promised. Despite the plethora of new critiques, little systematic work has theorized how NGOs actually operate within the least developed countries...

The author in this article compares the economic development of the Republic of Guatemala from 1945 to 2015 against the theories of the economic development of Latin America as promulgated by the famous Argentinian economist, Raul Prebisch. The obstacles against economic development in Guatemala...

This paper provides an empirical investigation of the “social capital” theories that link civil society and democracy. Using data from the Civil Society Index for 44 countries, we find that not only this relationship exists, but that civil society is also positively correlated with human...

This study focuses on the small-to-medium manufacturing and value-adding sector, and is the result of focused interviews with the mangers of eight Papua New Guinea based businesses. It is complemented by interviews with managers of several statutory bodies, business councils and research...

Purpose: In many developing and affluent countries, poverty alleviation has been the prime goal of promoting socioeconomic status. The Government's attempt to curb poverty includes promoting monetary-generation projects, providing facilities to raise the standard of living, and executing the...

Die sich in mehr oder weniger regelmäßigen Abständen stellende Frage nachden Zukunftsperspektiven der Genossenschaften in Deutschland erfordert nahezuzwangsläufig die Auseinandersetzung mit zwei unterschiedlichen Facetten.So stellt sich zum einen die Frage nach den wirtschaftlichen, speziell...