This volume—a collaborative work between the World Bank’s Global Governance Practice and a team of researchers working with the Korean Development Institute—is dedicated to the proposition that there is much that can be learned from a careful and nuanced assessment of Korea’s experience...

The Sourcebook synthesizes real-world experiences and lessons learned of social protection delivery systems from around the world, with a particular focus on social and labor benefits and services. It takes a practical approach, seeking to address concrete “how-to” questions, including: How...

The aim of this study is to investigate the negative correlation between unemployment and life satisfaction in the 27 post-socialist countries. First, we measured the well-being cost of life satisfaction brought from pecuniary and non-pecuniary sources. In line with the previous literature, the...

Marketing concept represents the idea that the purpose of marketing is to help an organization meet its objectives (Darroach et al. 2004). Market orientation has been suggested as a means to implement the marketing concept (Koli and Jaworski (1990). Reflecting the key concepts of marketing at...

Since the late 1990s, instead of encouraging first-movers to challenge and take risks, innovation related policies of Korean government, such as science and technology policies, industrial policies, and university policies, induced the first-movers to avoid risks. Likewise, these same policies...

This article examines the domestic and external factors that facilitated the implementation of economic reforms and export-oriented industrialization (EOI) in Vietnam, and seeks to investigate why the comparable policies of nine selected African countries (Angola, Benin, Congo-Brazzaville,...