This paper deals primarily with supply-side performance of the Czech economy. Macroeconomic part of the analysis points out very low growth rate of total factor productivity, as well as high sensitivity of imports to real GDP growth. It also demonstrates

The purpose of this paper is to explain the humped-shaped behavior of the growth rate. Within a dynamic general equilibrium framework, it is found that, in the early stages of development, the source of growth is the reallocation of resources from sectors low-productivity sectors to...

Using household survey data from Chile the current paper presents evidence of how the nutritional status of the child reflects differences in parental preferences and child rearing technology within an intra-household allocation approach that includes a health production function. From the...

Building on the large and growing empirical literature on the political behavior of individuals in low income countries, this Chapter seeks to understand corruption through the lens of political economy – particularly in terms of the political and economic differences between rich and poor...

The EC promotes the mobility of tertiary education students in an effort to promote the establishment of a Single European education space. However, increasing student mobility within the EU raises the question of equal treatment of students of another EU member state. This becomes a contested...

The purpose of this paper is to examine the modalities of the organization of R&D activities between the main institutional sectors (higher-education, government, industry) within the field of space communications in the Triad countries. The analysis of these modalities is complex since the...