The paper discusses the idea and purpose of Child-Friendly Schools (CFSs) initiated by the UNICEF. It analyses the implications of CFSs in terms of improving children’s health and nutrition, promoting gender equality, protecting children’s rights, re-defining education quality and creating...

The informal economy consists of economic activities that occur outside of formal institutional boundaries but which remain within informal institutional boundaries for large segments of society. We draw from diverse disciplines to frame research concerning entrepreneurship in the informal...

Bipartite network based recommendations have attracted extensive attentions in recent years. Differing from traditional object-oriented recommendations, the recommendation in a Microblog network has two crucial differences. One is high authority users or one’s special friends usually play a...

In this paper a basic resource allocation problem with uncertain costs is discussed. The problem consists in choosing exactly p items out of n available to minimize the total cost. The uncertain item costs are specified as a discrete scenario set and the minmax criterion is used to choose a...

In this paper a basic resource allocation problem with uncertain costs is discussed. The problem consists in choosing exactly p items out of n available to minimize the total cost. The uncertain item costs are specified as a discrete scenario set and the minmax criterion is used to choose a...

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Economic growth in the very long run is described by a multiple-phase, dynamic process with potentially complex dynamics during transitions between regimes. Technology is assumed to rest on a managerial-administrative infrastructure which influences natality, mortality and the productivity of...

I present a model in which different candidates are stronger on different issues and an incumbent must decide how many resources to devote to each of two different issues. I derive conditions under which the incumbent has an incentive to devote an inefficiently high amount of resources to the...

In this paper a basic resource allocation problem with uncertain costs is discussed. The problem consists in choosing exactly p items out of n available to minimize the total cost. The uncertain item costs are specified as a discrete scenario set and the minmax criterion is used to choose a...

This paper focuses on how entrepreneurial goals affect the resource allocation of new firm owners. It connects research in psychology and management that examines the core motivations of entrepreneurs with research in economics that models the behavior of owner-managers as utility-maximizing...