Expansions or contractions of sectors intensively use female labor must affect female labor force participation (FLFP). We suggest that, whenever trade and international specialization expand sectors intensive in female labor, FLFP actually drops. This is because expansions of those sectors come...

Azerbaijan is the most strategic country in the Caucasus and the Caspian regions with strategic and development perspectives. Azerbaijan experienced various political, economic and social problems in its first years of independence due to Armenia's occupation of Karabakh. Due to these problems,...

This is the introductory chapter to a book on Commercial Law in East Asia that examines scholarly interpretations of the role played by commercial law in East Asia's economic rise. Some decades ago, Asian commercial law was largely neglected in the writings of legal scholars. This was because...

This paper states the authors' views on the realities and prospects of globalization as an economic, political and social category. In particular, there considered the development factors of globalization in the world economy such as innovation development, expansion of intergovernmental...

In light of Kazakhstan's interest to join the World Trade Organization (WTO), this paper investigates the impact of the WTO accession on trade flows by using a standard gravity model. It argues that accession to the WTO involves a short run benefit from further reducing tariff and non-tariff...

Questions of domination and power, legitimacy and legitimation have driven 20th century research on dictatorship and democracy, on totalitarian and authoritarian regimes, on fascism and communism and even on capitalism versus socialism. Reference to Max Weber's ideal-types of legitimate...

This paper attempts to establish the value of good relationships between countries by considering their effect on a group of individuals who are arguably intimately affected by them: immigrants. We appeal to an index of conflict/cooperation which is calculated as an annual weighted sum of news...

Life expectancy is part of the United Nations’ 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and is a main indicator of overall quality of life. In this paper we investigate whether Chinese overseas direct investments into Belt and Road countries have brought about improvement in the latter’s life...