Explaining African Economic Performance

The Quest for the African Dummy: Explaining African Post-colonial Economic Performance Revisited

Cross-sectional studies of growth in post-colonial Africa have overwhelmingly focussed on explaining the failure of growth in Africa. This prompting stylised fact has its qualifications and when these are taken into consideration the explanations of African economic growth appear incoherent. The notion of a chronic African growth failure has diverted attention from the process of economic growt...

Explaining Differences in Economic Performance in Caribbean Economies By

Explaining the Global Economic Crisis

Explaining Business Process Performance

business process improvement to a change in leadership. One hundred and eight respondents (32.2 percent) also pointed to planning as an important factor. Planning is included in the leadership group as it is most often a leadership initiative. Garland Elmore, associate vice president for teaching and learning information technology and dean of information technology at Indiana University, descr...

Toward Explaining Productivity and Economic Growth

The major thesis of this article is that combining the resource-based theory of the firm with Austrian economics and heterogeneous demand theory provides the foundations for a new theory ofcompetition, the resource-ativantage theory. This new theory has macro and public policy implications. Specifically, when compared with neoclassical perfect competition theory. the resource-advantage theory b...