Similar Search Results

The geography of culture and human development in Italy

Petrarca, Ilaria; Ricciuti, Roberto - In: Homo oeconomicus 32 (2015) 1, pp. 77-99

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011375772

Predictors of various facets of sustainability of nations : the role of cultural and economic factors

Roy, Abhijit; Goll, Irene - In: International business review : the official journal of … 23 (2014) 5, pp. 849-861

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010405531

Culture, corruption and economic development : the case of emerging economies

Horvat, Tatjana; Mayrleitner, Philipp; Korez Vide, Romana; … - In: Acta oeconomica : periodical of the Hungarian Academy … 71 (2021) 1, pp. 99-116

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012800856

The impact of culture on corruption, gross domestic product, and human development

Scholl, Wolfgang; Schermuly, Carsten - In: Journal of business ethics : JBE 162 (2020) 1, pp. 171-189

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012208185

Chapter 20. National Culture as Value Orientations: Consequences of Value Differences and Cultural Distance

Schwartz, Shalom H. - In: Handbook of the economics of art and culture : volume 2, (pp. 547-586). 2014

culture to significant societal phenomena. The first section explicates my conception of culture – a conception of the … approaches to culture are followed by an analysis that justifies treating countries as cultural units. The middle section of the … chapter examines associations between culture, measured by the value orientations, and a variety of variables of economic …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014025394

The role of gender in the extractives industries

McDonald, Catherine - 2017

In recognizing that women's participation and gender equity is a precondition for the achievement of acceptable development outcomes, extractives industry companies are increasingly making public commitments to integrating gender equality, inclusion, and women's economic empowerment into aspects...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011617023

Reconsidering Creditor Governance in a Time of Financial Alchemy

McClane, Jeremy - 2021

For many years corporate lenders have been a crucial force in the boardroom, providing a check on management and contributing to firm governance. However, lenders’ influence has receded in recent years for a large and important class of corporate borrowers. The culprit is a familiar one in a...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013211233

The Political Economy of Global Outsourcing

Sharma, Chanchal Kumar - 2013

Outsourcing has become a contentious political issue in the US and other rich countries from where jobs are being outsourced.much of the controversy over outsourcing in the USA is directly linked to the jobs scenario. Does the January 23 Bill mean that America is moving a step away from free...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014054511

Determinants of human development: Capturing the role of institutions

Binder, Michael; Georgiadis, Georgios - 2011

In this paper, we study development in a panel of 87 countries from 1970 to 2005. We focus on characterizing institutionally driven heterogeneities in the development effects of macroeconomic policies and on comparing the development process as measured by GDP to that measured by the Human...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274921

Inequality in human development: An empirical assessment of 32 countries

Grimm, Michael; Harttgen, Kenneth; Smeeding, Timothy; … - 2009

One of the most frequent critiques of the HDI is that is does not take into account inequality within countries in its three dimensions. In this paper, we apply a simply approach to compute the three components and the overall HDI for quintiles of the income distribution. This allows a...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010335419