This article presents new evidence on urban–rural migrant wage differentials of workers in full-time employment in China. It utilises a nationally representative data set, recent matching techniques, and IV estimation methods to evaluate conditional and unconditional quantile treatment effects...

Ce document: (i) donne un aperçu de l'inégalité du revenu mondial, régional et national sur la base des dernières données de la Banque mondiale, l'UNU-WIDER et Eurostat, (ii) examine les conséquences négatives de l'inégalité croissante des revenus pour le développement, (iii) appelle...

Many existing classifications of developing countries are dominated by income per capita (such as the World Bank’s low, middle, and high income thresholds), thus neglecting the multidimensionality of the concept of ‘development’. Even those deemed to be the main ‘alternatives’ to the...

The 2011 Human Development Report argues that the urgent global challenges of sustainability and equity must be addressed together – and identifies policies on the national and global level that could spur mutually reinforcing progress towards these interlinked goals. Bold action is needed on...

The article reveals the essence and the economic content of the economic efficiency at the enterprise level. Also, its forms are given, and respectively, indicators which can be used to measure the economic efficiency within the company. A production situation was proposed, through which have...

This publication deals with the issues of the special forms of support of the innovation activity in Russia: foundations for funding R&D; giving research grants; special order allowing budget institutions to transfer to the statutory capital of daughter organizations rights on R&D; special regime...

This publication deals with the analysis of theoretical concepts, which explain the influence of innovations on scientific and technological progress for long term perspective.

This publication deals with the analysis of theoretical concepts, which explain the influence of innovations on scientific and technological progress for long term perspective.