VOLUME 5(4) • 2010
HUMAN CAPITAL ACCUMULATION AND LONG-RUN ECONOMIC GROWTH
ABSTRACT. The objective of this paper is to emphasize the importance of the role played by social capital in human capital formation and the importance of human capital to economic development. Throughout this paper, we demonstrate the value and importance of the role of human capital externalities ..
THE DYNAMICS OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT-ORIENTED FORMS OF TOURISM
ABSTRACT. We are specifically interested in how previous research investigated the political nature of consumer choices in tourism, the formation of a brand in tourism family businesses, the development of a tourism destination brand, and the increased interest in heritage/cultural tourism. This pap..
ONLINE CRIME AND THE REGULATION OF BUSINESS ON THE INTERNET
ABSTRACT. The goal of the present study is to determine if there are relationships between the challenges computer crime present to the law enforcement and security communities, the criminal use of computers, the challenges currently faced by the SMEs in the regulatory domain, facilitation of symmet..
THE INCREASING INTEGRATION OF THE GLOBAL ECONOMY AND THE VARIABILITY OF STOCK MARKET PRICES
ABSTRACT. The purpose of this article is to gain a deeper understanding of stock market efficiency, significant linkages among stock market volatility of industrialized countries, the movement of the Chinese stock market, and predictability of risk during normal and highly volatile periods of the st..
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN GOVERNMENT EFFECTIVENESS AND CORRUPTION
ABSTRACT. The purpose of this article is to gain a deeper understanding of the pivotal role of the fraud and corruption risk assessment, the identification of possible fraud and corruption risks, the logical outcome of poor performance stemming from inequality and corruption, and the connection of c..
THE LOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF KEYNES’S REAL-WORLD ANALYSIS
ABSTRACT. This paper presents a review of the literature on Keynes’s revolutionary monetary theory, his understanding of the instability of investment decisions, and his deployment of exogenous long-term expectations. Thus, the overall results provide strong evidence for Keynes’s speculations about ..
THE INTEGRATION PROCESS OF THE EAST EUROPEAN NEW MEMBER STATES IN THE SINGLE ELECTRICITY MARKET
ABSTRACT. The purpose of this study is to examine traded energy-intensive sectors, the relative strengths of world prices and domestic costs in determining the sectors’ output prices, and economically worthwhile energy efficiency investments. The literature on energy-saving investment cost curves, t..
SOCIAL NETWORKS AND MULTIMEDIA CONTENT ANALYSIS
ABSTRACT. We seek to contribute to a wider understanding of contextual and cultural influences on human satisfaction with search for knowledge and information in multimedia content, the advantages and disadvantages of social networks as seen by users or society, using Web mining to extract social ne..
THE DIFFERENTIAL EFFECT OF CORRUPTION ON CORPORATE POLITICAL CONNECTIONS
ABSTRACT. This paper presents a review of the literature on the differential effect of corruption on corporate political connections across countries, the possibilities of global patterns of corrupt behavior, the relation between past FDI and changes in the corruption measures, and corruption-relate..
THE DEVELOPMENT OF ONLINE NEWS PRODUCTION AND THE EMPOWERING OF THE AUDIENCE IN DIGITAL MEDIA
ABSTRACT. We are specifically interested in how previous research investigated the process of making and circulating media content, the relationship between governments, citizens and the media, the collective roles of the news media, the effectiveness of the watchdog, agenda-setting and gate-keeping..
TARGETED APPROACH VS. LIBERATED AND CHAOTIC FARMERS PARTICIPATION IN WATER RESOURCE MANAGEMENT • LESSONS FROM IRRIGATION MANAGEMENT TRANSFER (IMT) IN KARNATAKA
ABSTRACT. This paper, based on an explorative study, throws some light on the functioning of water user groups in the management of water resources, i.e. canal irrigation, in one of the irrigation projects in Karnataka. Karnataka, like its neighbouring state of Andhra Pradesh, is in the limelight du..
CUBA: THE SURGE OF EXPORT-ORIENTED SERVICES
ABSTRACT. Since the inception of the special period and the loss of its traditional export markets for sugar and other goods, Cuba has turned towards services as new sources of foreign exchange. Tourism has been reactivated and its performance has been broadly satisfactory, yet its long term growth ..