Analysis of the growth patterns in the Global South in the twenty-first century suggests there is room for authoritarian states to search for new growth models. Authoritarian states, such as Turkey and Egypt, benefited from global financial circumstances in the early 2000s and experienced shifts...

This paper scrutinizes the issue of economic resilience, aiming to detect the existence of a systematic link with economic specialization. To this end, the paper conducts an empirical analysis at the local (i.e., municipal) level of Greece during the economic crisis period (2009-2015), providing...

Neoliberal globalization epoch gained momentum by the stagflation of the 1970s, the elections of 1979 (Margaret Thatcher) in the UK, 1980 (Ronald Reagan) in the US, the theorizations of Chicago school, and a series of deregulations. However, Marc Edelman and Angelique Haugerud argued that, in...

This paper summarizes the basic arguments given by professors Christian Bordes, David Currie and Hans Söderström in their reports on the state and behaviour of the Finnish economy prior to mid 1993. The focus is primarily on the analytical frameworks or models used by the professors to...

In this paper, we examine the causes and economic policy lessons of the fact that – compared to previous recessions – the global economic crisis which started in 2007 and intensified in 2008 appears to be deeper and more lasting, and the recovery is taking longer. We demonstrate that the...

Cleft lip and palate is a very common condition which is globally undertreated. This case report shows how cleft lip surgery can transform patient's lives, self-perception, and their self-esteem through a visionary and adaptive leadership of a few social workers and medical doctors in resource...

Many countries are pursuing innovation-led ‘smart' growth, which requires certain types of long-run strategic investments. This paper argues that such investments require public policies that aim to create markets, rather than just ‘fixing' market failures (or system failures). Such...

This series of in-class activities utilizes a familiar favorite, Hasbro's Monopoly board game, in order to demonstrate economic development concepts that are common to most principles level macroeconomics courses. The basic Monopoly game rules are rigged in a variety of iterations to provide...