“…We conclude that this ‘education amplification effect’ widens the gap between lower and higher HDI countries in terms of liberalized mentality and economic growth potential. Policy implications for how low HDI countries can counter this gap are discussed.…”
Enlace del recurso
Enlace del recurso
Enlace del recurso

“…Given the high poverty levels in Africa, with most countries’ economy and populations’ livelihood dependent on rain-fed agriculture, land degradation among other environmental hazards has proven to be a major threat to economic growth and food insecurity, respectively. Drought, which is on the increase at the global level and said to create over 78% of other hazards, has aggravated land degradation. …”
Enlace del recurso
Enlace del recurso
Enlace del recurso

“…The International Cooperative Biodiversity Groups (ICBG) Program based at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) is a program aimed to address the interdependent issues of inventory and conservation of biodiversity, drug discovery and sustained economic growth in both developing and developed countries. …”
Enlace del recurso
Enlace del recurso
Enlace del recurso

“…Our results shed new light on the ECI’s empirical success in explaining cross-country differences in gross domestic product per capita and economic growth, which is often linked to the diversity of country export baskets. …”
Enlace del recurso
Enlace del recurso
Enlace del recurso

“…The unsafe use of AgNPs could pose a real threat, not only to public health but also to economic growth in many industries. In this paper, we tested the effect of AgNPs on memory, learning, social behaviour and motor function of BALB/C mice. …”
Enlace del recurso
Enlace del recurso
Enlace del recurso

“…Rapid economic growth and urbanization is imposing an unseen pressure on energy sector to fulfill the increasing energy demand. …”
Enlace del recurso
Enlace del recurso
Enlace del recurso

“…Workers trained in STEM are generally viewed as essential for innovation-led economic growth. Yet, recent statistics suggest that a majority of STEM undergraduates do not go on to pursue innovation-focused careers in their fields of study. …”
Enlace del recurso
Enlace del recurso
Enlace del recurso

“…This finding indicates the importance of developing effective policies that strengthen public administration, the judicial structure, and public social spending and thus rupture the cycles of corruption and homicides that prevent the creation of sustained economic growth and development.…”
Enlace del recurso
Enlace del recurso
Enlace del recurso

“…China has begun to decouple some environmental pressure from economic growth, and an innovation-driven strategy is proposed to deal with the synergic development between the economy and environment. …”
Enlace del recurso
Enlace del recurso
Enlace del recurso

“…This study explores the association between urban developments and health in China, a country that has experienced unprecedented economic growth and consequential rapid urbanisation over the last few decades. …”
Enlace del recurso
Enlace del recurso
Enlace del recurso

“…SDG 8 strives for improved and sustainable economic growth. Africa's population is estimated to increase markedly and rapidly over the next few decades. …”
Enlace del recurso
Enlace del recurso
Enlace del recurso

“…Thus, since human capital is a crucial determinant of improving economic growth, OPEC member countries should invest more on the quality of human capital through education and health to improve the living standard of people and societal welfare.…”
Enlace del recurso
Enlace del recurso
Enlace del recurso

“…For 10 years the country enjoyed rapid economic growth (6–7% per annum) but this slowed steadily to near stagnation in the 1990s. …”
Enlace del recurso
Enlace del recurso

“…The study introduces an approach that combines long-run economic growth models, climate models, and reduced-form GIS models. …”
Enlace del recurso
Enlace del recurso
Enlace del recurso

“…While there is recognition that conventional economic growth must yield to policies that foster sustainable development, this has not yet occurred on any broad scale. …”
Enlace del recurso
Enlace del recurso
Enlace del recurso

“…Singapore is vulnerable to both natural and man-made disasters alongside its remarkable economic growth. One of the most significant disasters in recent history was the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) epidemic in 2003. …”
Enlace del recurso
Enlace del recurso

“…While existing economic research shows the development of financial services is generally important for economic growth, a number of previous studies by Outreville (1990) and Ward and Zurbruegg (2000) provide empirical evidence that insurance market development in its own right can promote economic development. …”
Enlace del recurso
Enlace del recurso

“…A Granger causality test is performed following the cointegration approach to reveal the direction of causality between economic growth and tourism expansion. Test results indicate a long-run equilibrium relationship and further a bi-directional causality between the two factors. …”
Enlace del recurso
Enlace del recurso
Enlace del recurso

“…China has experienced outstanding economic growth during the last three decades through urbanization. …”
Enlace del recurso
Enlace del recurso
Enlace del recurso

“…The overall success of a digitized public-procurement function yields progress and economic growth for the nation. In this research, we analyze the potential of blockchain-based systems to enhance effectiveness, ease, and transparency in public procurement in the case of Nigeria and identify the current challenges facing public procurement, i.e., lack of trust and transparency among critical stakeholders in the procurement process, systems that only weakly support transaction recording and documentation, complex process structures, corruption in institutions involved in the procurement process. …”
Enlace del recurso
Enlace del recurso