This study reviews the global trends in Internet access and concludes the rest of the world is rapidly catching up with the Western world. The study then shifts to the Turkish case and reports the findings of a survey conducted at a Turkish University that focused on Internet usage, online...

In this work, we shall compare the results on two indicators of structural change (contribution to GDP and exports) between the companies with foreign capital and companies without foreign ownership. The article centres on the hypothesis that FDI has contributed positively to the structural...

Through policy decision of governments and through other unofficial means, many countries have moved away from their local currency to seek protection against inflation provided by a hard currency, the dollar. Among the promises of dollarization is the reduction of sovereign risk associated with...

Faith and moral have not been the only factors that influenced people to invest ethically, but also their conscience too. People has long shun away from unethical forms of business activity. Therefore, many view that ethical investment overlaps Islamic investment. Though there are many...

The housing crisis is a debt-deflation Minsky's type crisis. The new economy bubble was replaced by the housing bubble. However, it is a deflationary crisis with specificities. It seems to point to the limits of a securities-backed financial regime, which forces a review of the regulation of...

Despite the challenging domestic security environment Colombia's program of economic and financial reform is continuing. As will be argued below the egregious level of civil strife that has saturated the country over the last five decades has adversely affected all the major components of the...

Discrimination under its various manifestations will always represent a contemporary current issue. Discrimination's expressions emerge when a group of individuals sharing common characteristics (such as religious convictions, certain race or gender, etc) is discriminated regardless their own...

The paper provides some evidence on the current pattern of current account imbalances, real exchange rate and growth in emerging market economies and offers an interpretation to the fact that fast-growing economies tend to run small current account deficits or surpluses while preserving a non...

Many of the emerging market economies in Europe are presently running current account deficits which are quite high relative to any global or historical standard and are fundamentally unsustainable. This includes the three poorer European Union (EU) members of the old Europe (Greece, Portugal,...

Turkey and the central Asian nations of Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan all have linguistic and cultural ties that could blossom into some form of economic bloc that could also attract a number of Middle Eastern states as well as China, Mongolia, and...