The Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis asserts that pollution levels rises as a country develops, but reaches a certain threshold where pollution begins to fall with increasing income. In EKC analysis, the relationship between environmental degradation and income is usually expressed...

This study examines the relationship among OFW remittances, inequality and quality of life in the Philippines. The study covered the period from 1990 to 2011 and employed Vector autoregressive (VAR) analysis to examine the relationship among the variables. Over the years, Human Development Index...

According to the so-called "arc sine law," mechanical trading rules applied to price movements in financial assets will result in long periods of cumulative success, but equally long periods of cumulative failure. The long periods of success will tempt investors to apply trading rules to actual...

Article about the situation and the problems existing in the field of innovative development of Russian industry in the 1992-1998. The author analyzes the state innovation policy in Russia, highlights the major problems of implementation of industrial innovation, and offers solutions.

School dropout has emerged as major hindrance to human capital formation in developing countries globally and efforts are on to stem this. The present paper attempts to identify proximate determinants of school dropout and suggest policies to tackle the problem in India context by using field...

We consider policy evaluations when SUTVA is violated because of the presence of interference among units. We propose to explicitly model interactions as a function of units characteristics. Our approach is applied to the evaluation of a policy implemented in Tuscany (a region in Italy) on small...

As financial inclusion gains popularity in developed and developing economies, there is a need for a single index, (simple in computation with little or no assumptions) that pools together the financial inclusion indicators adopted by the IMF financial access survey. The various variants of...

Agriculture stands as most sensitive economic activity to climate variations. Modelling climate-agriculture relationship is one of the most researched issues in recent times. This paper reviews some of the issues regarding modelling agriculture response to climate change.

The business model is a managerial tool to understand the logic of a company. Business model tells how a company creates values for customers, what are these values, and identifies how it is compensated for values provided. Business model consist of several blocks. These blocks are built by...

The experience accumulated from the development and production of a flash estimate of GDP as an official statistic at Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) is presented and discussed. This experience could inform national statistical organisations operating under similar statistical production...