The People's Republic of China, commonly referred to as China, was formally established on October 1, 1949 under the rule of the Communist Party, and led by Mao Zedong. China, being one of the world's oldest civilizations, has a long and illustrious history that dates back well before 1949....

Recent literatures on entrepreneurship and economic growth estimate the empirical relationships between the following pairs of variables: (1) institutions and entrepreneurial activity; (2) institutions and economic growth; and (3) entrepreneurship and economic growth.This paper revisits each of...

This study, as a synthesis of past research, demonstrates that the use of the well-known methodological "Gini coefficient index" measured income inequalities, should support a new forecasting form of tourist impact, led - under conditions - to new flexible development policies, especially in...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the nature of water use a drought-inflicted region of Darfur. Economic development in Darfur is constrained due to the occurrence of intermittent droughts, desertification and water scarcity. The aim of this research therefore, was to develop an...

This article studies location decisions and network configurations of foreign direct investment (FDI) in Nanjing, the capital of Jiangsu Province, located in the northwest of the Yangtze River Delta (YRD). Built on the perspective that China's economic transition can be conceptualized as a...

This paper seeks the nature of the relationship between Development financing and Economic Growth including case study for the Kazakhstan at different levels: (a) industry level; (b) regional level and (c) intra-regional by industry level. The paper determines the hypotheses, methods and data...

Aid for Trade (AfT) came to prominence just over a decade ago at the launch of the World Trade Organization's Doha Round. With its focus on helping least developed countries and economies escape the poverty trap, it aims to strengthen their capabilities to meet market demand and to reduce...

This paper analyzes the nature of FDI local networks in production and R&D activities in China and discusses their implications for technological dynamism and regional development. We investigate foreign ventures (or foreign-invested enterprises, FIEs) in the information and communication...

This paper examines the effect Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC)projects have on neighboring sales prices of single-family homes in Dallas County. The results suggest LIHTC projects that went into place between 1986 and 2003 have a small, positive signifi cant effect on single-family home...

This study examines cycles and common cycles in property and related sectors in the frequency domain. The findings indicate that property shares common cycles with a number of economic sectors and, in particular, with those sectors that are the user markets of property, and lags behind in...