This paper surveys the various composite well-being indices that have been inter-country assessments over the last 40 or soy ears, including the well known Human Development Index (HDI). A number of issues are considered, including the choice of components, component weights, scale equivalence,...

Managerial skills are viewed as being of fundamental importance for improved managerial performance and effectiveness as the whole. Recent developments in the field point to the presence of three paramount and overlapping categories of managerial skills namely, task-, people- and self-related,...

This paper analyses the extent of inequality amongst the major states of India over nearly two decades. It reviews various theoretical propositions for possible convergence and divergence and argues that while the evidence from the more developed countries supports the case of convergence the...

This paper analyses three aspects of the export supply response to structural adjustment programmes supported by the World Bank. First, have programmes improved programme countries' export performance relative to non-programme countries? Second, have programmes contributed to re-orientation of...

This paper investigates the causal relationships between foreign direct investment (FDI), domestic investment (DI) and economic growth (GDP) in Egyptian, Moroccan and Tunisian economies. Thus, this paper applies a cointegration time series techniques; vector error correction (VEC) model, Granger...