A little over a decade now, there have been sweeping procurement reforms in most developing countries. The orchestrators of these reforms - mostly the World Bank and other international financial institutions, have cited financial mismanagement and the lack of transparency in public financial...

Globalisation has resulted in financialisation, which is the free flow of funds across borders. Because of the global financial crisis and the European debt crisis, there has been a decrease in the volume of external funds to developing countries. This has left remittances as one of the major...

Immigrant entrepreneurship is increasingly regarded as a potential source of sustainable development. But even while this potential is gaining popularity, the available data are still not sufficient to establishing ad-hoc policies that would support the development of this form of...

There is a dispute on whether foreign investors are superior compared to the domestic investors. Many economists suggest that foreign investors may have had more advantages due to significant amount of investment, experience and expertise. On the other hand, domestic investors may have a...

This paper tries to integrate the new paradigm of the vertical specialisation with the driving forces of international trade, which have been testified by different paradigms of international trade theory, so as to build up an econometric model. Then, by this model, we use China's 1992-2009...

Starting from an econometric model successfully used to explain and then predict the distribution of medal wins across nations at the Beijing Summer Olympics, a similar model is elaborated on with some different explanatory variables for estimating the determinants of medals won per nation at...

We study the dynamics of inter-regional economic disparities for a number of development characteristics, test the hypothesis of the new economic geography and connect the results with the prediction of the bell curve describing spatial concentration over time. Empirical analysis shows that the...

This paper investigates the determinants of economic growth, while paying special attention to the role of export and spatial externalities. We hypothesise that not industry variety per se but variety of related industries significantly contributes to economic growth in Russian regions. First,...

Globalisation in the recent times has resulted in increased interdependence between the countries. While the process of globalisation holds the promise of development for all, it has been argued by various researchers that situation on ground is otherwise. There is considerable disagreement...

To meet the global challenges organisations must understand the special aspects of globalisations and internationalisation. For an organisation to be successful globally, leaders within that organisation play a vital role. This study aims to determine the various competencies and predictors to...