This article pays attention to a unique process at the beginning of the 1990s, representing a principal change to the social and economic reality in Czechoslovakia during that period. After the gVelvet Revolution" resulted in the collapse of the communist political system, it was essential to...

Empathy breeds social innovation and good leadership. This brief note is an initial exploration of the enablers of social innovation at the grassroots level where it matters most in a crisis. We focus on the need for individuals or groups who can implement plans of action that help whole...

This is an ongoing study investigating how the NPO Takatori Community Center has been supporting foreign residents in the community since the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake. The authors have, so far, interviewed its three directors and one staff member. Some of the findings are: the importance...

With low average income in Vietnam, many people purchase and enjoy expensive goods. Under the current legal framework on banking loan, low income people can buy them by gloan" from banks in Vietnam. In actuality, however, the formal sector appears to be inadequate in fulfilling their credit...

This paper formulates a comprehensive pension fund framework for enhancing system capacity to manage economic and social risks. The National Social Protection Fund (NSPF) attempts to quantify informal sector, incorporated under a unified national protection scheme. The new protection mechanism...

We introduce machine learning in the context of central banking and policy analyses. Our aim is to give an overview broad enough to allow the reader to place machine learning within the wider range of statistical modelling and computational analyses, and provide an idea of its scope and...

The International Conference GLOBALIZATION Economic, Social and Moral Implications was organized by Research Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, “Athenaeum” University of Bucharest, Institute for Economic Forecasting Romanian Academy, Scientia Moralitas Research Institute and The...

An introduction to the topic of the different types of legal protection applicable to video games and their constituent elements was made in a previous article . The present article is a follow-on article and aims to provide the holders of rights over a video game with additional opportunity for...

This monograph presents a new research field entitled “Economic Simulating”. The mission of economic simulating is to offer academics, policy-makers, and researchers new analytical tools to study the origins, trend, and possible solutions of economic problems from a new perspective. The...