Growth through quality

Quality Improvement through Quality Requirements Management

not taken into account properly [13]. In fact, there As the degree of compliance of quality requirements mainly induces the acceptance and success of a system, special emphasis should be laid on the elicitation, specification and validation of quality requirements. Current requirements definition methods, however, mainly focus on objects, functions, and states. This paper emphasizes quality req...

Quality through the ages.

Data Quality through Conceptual Model Quality - Reconciling Researchers and Practitioners through a Customizable Quality Model

Data quality has emerged as an important and challenging topic in recent years. In this article we are addressing the conceptual model quality since it has been widely accepted that better conceptual models produce better information systems and thus implicitly improve the data quality. Unfortunately there is neither standard nor agreed framework for managing conceptual models quality. This art...

The quality of growth

We use latent class analysis to categorize development experiences. This technique allows us to consider a broad range of country characteristics including per capita income growth, health, inequality, environmental performance, and life satisfaction. We show that each of these indicators is important in explaining the classifications based on the quality of growth. We then predict membership i...

Quality and Interrelated Growth

This paper develops a model in which a rapid expansion of the quality frontier by rich countries pushes poorer countries down the quality ladder and thereby leads to a widening dispersion of quality around the world as well as sluggish growth in poorer countries. This paper documents these features in the data, such as a recent rise in the dispersion of quality exported around the world between...