Ranking countries according to economic, social and political indicators

Political, Social and Economic Realities in Developing Countries and in Countries with Economies in Transition

Social, economic, and political context of parenting.

This article is written as a contribution to the parenting debate and as a response to Hoghughi and Speight. Our starting point is simple; parenting cannot be understood, and neither can interventions to support eVective parenting and successful childrearing be planned, unless it is placed within its economic, social, historical, and political context. Our paper is based around three interconne...

Non-Compensatory Composite Indicators for Ranking Countries: A Defensible Setting

Composite indicators for ranking countries are more and more popular in a variety of economic and policy domains such as industrial competitiveness, sustainable development, globalisation and innovation. As a consequence, improvements in the way these indicators are constructed and used seem to be a very important research issue from both the theoretical and operational points of view. This pap...

Ranking the economic importance of countries and industries

In the current era of worldwide market interdependencies, the global financial village has become increasingly vulnerable to systemic collapse. The global financial crisis has highlighted the necessity of understanding and quantifying the interdependencies among the world’s economies; developing new, effective approaches for risk evaluation; and providing mitigating solutions. We present a meth...

Technological and Economic Indicators on Software Piracy in OECD Countries

Taking countries of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), this paper analyzes factors affecting their software piracy rate (SPR) by taking into account several economic and technological variables. The empirical results show that per capita GDP (PerGDP), inflation, consumer prices (ICP), unemployment rate (UR), and high-technology exports (HTE) have positive correla...