Special Economic Zones (SEZs) is an important aspect of China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) besides projects with regard to infrastructure, energy, and the development of Gwadar port. SEZs as growth strategy has static and dynamic implications for the host economy. In static sense, they help...

This chapter discusses how leadership interventions in science parks can promote the diffusion of intellectual capital management (ICM) practices. It focuses on how operationalisation of the different social interactions leads to the accommodation of suitable mechanisms for diffusion of those...

The main achievements and problems of the change of the economic system in Bulgaria after 1989 and their impact on economic growth are analyzed. The main problem of the economic development of Bulgaria is the existence of a model of the functioning of the economy, whose main characteristic is...

This study explores the impact of the European debt crisis and the quality of the institutions on the economic growth in Bulgaria in the pre-accession period and during the period of EU membership. The European debt crisis broke the upward trend not only on the Bulgarian but also on the...

Illegal mining has emerged as a pressing issue with significant implications for economic growth and development in Ghana. This systematic review examines the impact of illegal mining on the country's economy and its overall development trajectory. The study focuses on the adverse effects of...

Improving of knowledge transfer is a key part of documents that determine the vector of development of science, technology and innovation, both in Russia and abroad. However, even with the accumulated considerable experience in the organization of knowledge transfer processes, the problem of low...

The government of China, to hone manufacturing’s competitive edge, has adopted a series of regional industrial policies to stimulate advanced manufacturing clusters as facilitators of agglomeration effects, utilisers of factor endowments, and implementers of innovation solutions, by playing...

The article is essentially a book-review of Professor Vijay Joshi's recent work, '"India's Long Road: The Search for Prosperity". In this critical essay, I take a slightly revisionist approach when it comes to a 'typical'book review. For example, the length of this article goes well-beyond the...

The article is essentially a book-review of Professor Vijay Joshi's recent work, '"India's Long Road: The Search for Prosperity". In this critical essay, I take a slightly revisionist approach when it comes to a 'typical'book review. For example, the length of this article goes well-beyond the...

In this paper, we use enterprise level data from the Annual Survey of Industries (ASI) to examine the inter-relationships between per capita income, wage rate and private investment of the registered manufacturing sector across the Indian states in the years of trade and investment...