This paper analyzes the impact of global financial and economic crisis on the process of system transformation in China. First, it details the direct impact of global growth on macroeconomic development and its indirect impact on economic transformation. Second, it analyzes the direct impact of...

With the implementation of the approach of the Interactive Party-State model (Csan di, 2006, 2011) the paper demonstrates the possible short and long term consequences of the adaptation pressures exerted by the global crisis on Chinese system transformation. It points to the short term character...

Global downturn in 2008 exerted strong adaptation pressures on China that incited prompt state response. The one-off large state intervention had consequences in several dimensions: on the one hand, it had a positive impact on the system's short-term economic, social and political stability by...

This paper demonstrates that despite substantial transformation towards a market economy, occasions for increased state intervention will mobilize the characteristics of redistribution in party-state systems. Such state intervention occurred through the introduction of the stimulus package in...

According to the hypothesis of our study there is a close relationship between the standard of economic development and the scale of internal spatial disparities. Central in our applied theory is that the first phase of capitalist economic development is characterised with an initially fast and...

The study focuses on the quality of live disparities among Hungarian micro-regions as well as among counties. For measuring quality of life HDI was chosen as the index to work with. The analysis focused on three years (1994, 2001 and 2005), which makes it possible to examine the temporal change...

Human capital refers to the ability and efficiency of people to transform raw materials and capital into goods and services, the consensus being that these skills can be learned through the educational system. The concept of human capital, necessarily, is related to the productivity of workers....

Das Projekt verfolgt folgende Zielsetzungen: Untersuchung der Anzahl und Entwicklung von Unternehmensgründungen im Hightech-Sektor - unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Hersteller und Anwender von Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologie (IKT) und Software - in Deutschland sowie Analyse...

Im Februar 2012 beauftragte das Ministerium für Ländlichen Raum und Verbraucherschutz des Landes Baden-Württemberg das ZEW mit der Erstellung einer Studie zu "Gründungsaktivitäten im Hightech-Bereich in Baden-Württemberg". In dieser Studie werden in drei Abschnitten eine differenzierte...

Im Gegensatz zum Finanzierungsbedarf der EU-Osterweiterung sind die realwirtschaftlichen Vor- und Nachteile empirisch nur schwer zu bestimmen. In diesem Beitrag stellen Dr. Björn Alecke und Dr. Gerhard Untiedt, Gesellschaft für Finanz- und Regionalanalysen (GEFRA), Münster, die Ergebnisse der...