International Migration Policies: An Overview

Climate Change Risks and Policies: An Overview

ICT R&D Policies: An International Perspective

76 Published by the IEEE Computer Society 1089-7801/10/$26.00 © 2010 IEEE IEEE INTERNET COMPUTING I nformation and communication technology (ICT) is a crucial driver behind innovations in Internet computing and drives economic growth and citizens’ quality of life.1,2 In fact, ICT has accounted for 25 percent of US economic growth since 1995, despite constituting just 3 percent of US GDP (www.na...

An Overview of Industrial Policies in Iran and Korea in 1960-2012

Primary objective of this paper is to explain why Korea has been successful in economic growth and industrial transformation while Iran has failed in this area. To explain the different performances of the two countries, we have looked at their initial level of industrialization, nature of political regimes and economic institutions, trade and industrial policies in the two countries. Our c...

An Overview of Legacy Information System Migration

Legacy information systems typically form the backbone of the information flow within an organisation and are the main vehicle for consolidating information about the business. These systems also pose considerable problems brittleness, inflexibility, isolation, nonextensibility, lack of openness etc -, the so called legacy system problem which opens up a new research topic, legacy system migrat...

Theories on Interregional Migration: An Overview

This paper gives an overview of theories on interregional migration. Conventional theories within economics and geography are discussed, and some new ideas are introduced. For example, the value of physical capital in a welfare society is now so large that it will slow down net migration. Finally, contemporary progress in research is discussed. New methods will make it possible to understand ma...