Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the correlation between childhood poverty and its influence on adulthood wage distribution, where childhood poverty refers to the experience of poverty or poor family background during one’s childhood. Design/methodology/approach – With...

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Editor and Contributors -- Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction and Summary of Poverty and Well-Being in East Africa: A Multifaceted Economic Approach -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Summary of Individual Studies -- 2.1 Part I. Child Poverty and...

The second scientific World Kurdish Congress was held in October 2012 at Hewler with the theme of improving the quality of life, science and culture for progress in Kurdistan. The papers presented focused on various important aspects of culture, economy, education, health, industry and political...

The service sector is undergoing rapid changes attribut- ed to digitalization. This study examines the relation- ship between digitalization and the performance of the Finnish private service firms from 2015 to 2021 using linked employer-employee data, financial data and an IT usage survey. Our...

1. Introduction -- 2. The Korean electricity industry -- 3. Market structure of the electricity industry -- 4. Global trends in electricity industry and energy consumption -- 5. Overview of performance methodologies -- 6. Previous efficiency analysis of electricity generation -- 7....