Innovation, another important component of this type of economy, constitutes, in turn, an indicator of global competitiveness. In the national and supranational processes and strategies to implementation of regional knowledge–based economy, a leading role is played by universities, turned into...

This paper provides a robust normative evaluation of the spectacular growth episode that India has experienced in the last 15 years. Specifically, the paper compares the evolution, between 1998, 1996 and 2001 of the distribution of several important individual attributes on the basis of...

This paper reports information on income inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean computed from a sample of more than 50 household surveys from 20 LAC countries from 1989 to 2001. Although the core of the statistics is on household income inequality, we also report results on aggregate...

This paper reports information on income inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean computed from a sample of more than 50 household surveys from 20 LAC countries from 1989 to 2001. Although the core of the statistics is on household income inequality, we also report results on aggregate...

The Cato 2019 Welfare, Work, and Wealth National Survey of 1,700 Americans investigates attitudes toward the rich and the poor and examines what Americans believe about work, welfare, and social mobility

This paper investigates the underlying nature of the demand for state support in Russia in the labor market and employment, social investments, and material support. Based on recent findings from social policy studies, the authors tested four different mechanisms: (a) the demographic features of...

In the final two years of Barack Obama’s presidential administration, the United States executive branch made herculean strides to increase the bathroom rights of intersex and transgender Americans. Nevertheless, under President Obama’s successor, Donald Trump, the executive branch has...

Youth unemployment plagues India denting the social fabric rather severely. A party to this, both as a cause and effect, is youth unemployment. My ideas for initiatives revolve around three main platforms – providing education, providing business support and providing publicity for the various...

This paper analyses J.S. Mill's theory on the relationships between individual autonomy and State powers. It will be argued that there is a significant discrepancy between Mill's general liberal statements aimed to secure individual largest possible autonomy and the specific examples which...

The Internet is great but broken. Back in the day, it brought us the Usenet Newsgroups, the Blogosphere and John Perry Barlow’s Declaration of Independence. Now, the Internet is dominated by monopolistic, addictive, asocial platforms that pit us against one another in a deluge of fake news,...