This study explores disparity in regional development in Russia and in Canada and role of geography in their development. In the first chapter analysis of the role of geographic, economic, and institutional factors in economic growth over 1996-2004 is presented. Additionally the issue of the...

Universities as promoting scientific knowledge and the industrial enterprises which are putting the scientific achievements into practice in technology play an active role in improving the social well-being of the population. For world experience, although in terms of industrial the growth rate...

Today in the era of “Liberalisation, Privatisatisation and Globalisation”, the caliber of competition faced by engineering graduates in any discipline has become ecumenical in general and national in particular. Gone are the days, when jobs were available to engineering graduates either in...

The paper analyses the potential contribution of services as a driving force of economic growth in developing countries within a Kaldorian framework. In doing so, we revisit Kaldor Growth Laws and econometrically test them for a number of economic activities (including four service branches)...