This paper investigates the impact of the 2008 economic crisis on industries in East Asia. It attempts to identify the transmission mechanism and the magnitude of the impact of the crisis on industries in East Asia using the updated Asian international input–output table for 2008. The analyses...

This paper investigates the deindustrialization process in Germany and Spain from 1995 to 2018. It is argued that the deindustrialization trajectories of each country are partially related to their growth models. An analysis in two steps is conducted. First, using the OECD input-output tables, a...

Energy use is intertwined with environmental harms, climate, and economic development. However, the United States has failed to balance these interests together to make effective policy that can address each of these issues. The need for such integrative policy has become more and more obvious...

Water is the most valuable natural resource. The growing existence gap between Irrigation Potential Created (IPC) and Irrigation Potential Utilized (IPU) important issue for the Indian government in the perspective of supply of safe drinking water, demand for industrial and agricultural purpose...

This paper discusses economic policies that have supported a particular kind of agricultural development in Punjab, as well as environment-specific policies that have sought to deal with various environmental problems aris- ing from that pattern of development. In doing so, we highlight some...

The paper aims to examine the role of institutions relative to economic policy and geography in explaining the differential level of development across countries over time. To that end, it attempts to construct a Development Quality Index (DQI) and an Institutional Quality Index (IQI) by using...

The paper uses nonparametric methodology to examine the role of institutions in understanding differential levels of development across countries. This technique estimates first order derivatives for every country allowing a deeper look into the impact of institutions on development. The...

Wieder einmal ist der Aufbau Ost in die Diskussion gekommen: Sonderwirtschaftszone oder Förderung von Wachstumskernen - was ist der richtige Weg, um Deutschland wieder auf Wachstumskurs zu bringen? Für Dr. Klaus von Dohnanyi, Bundesminister a.D. und Vorsitzender des "Gesprächskreises Aufbau...

Wieder einmal ist der Aufbau Ost in die Diskussion gekommen: Sonderwirtschaftszone oder Förderung von Wachstumskernen - was ist der richtige Weg, um Deutschland wieder auf Wachstumskurs zu bringen? Für Dr. Klaus von Dohnanyi, Bundesminister a.D. und Vorsitzender des "Gesprächskreises Aufbau...

In this qualitative sociological and quantitative economic policy paper, we start out from the assumption of a very recent European Commission Background paper on the "Efficiency and effectiveness of social spending", which says the effectiveness of social spending can be defined by the degree...