Social factors influencing the differences between developed and less developed regions

Technology cooperation between firms of developed and less - developed countries *

The paper presents a game theoretic model of technology cooperation where a developing country firm has the options of either developing an innovation alone, purchasing information or collaborating with a developed country firm. Technology cooperation changes the probability of success of commercialization.  2000 Elsevier Science S.A. All rights reserved.

Child Labor and the Influencing Factors: Evidence from less Developed Provinces of Iran.

BACKGROUND This study aimed to calculate the child labor rate and establish the factors affecting this phenomenon in the less developed provinces of Iran. METHODS This study has used the secondary data of population and housing census gathered by Iranian Statistical Center in 2011. The data belonged to 14859 children between 10 and 14 of 9 less developed provinces of Iran. A multiple regressi...

The Informal Sector in Developed and Less Developed Countries

The main goal of this study is two-fold: (1) to provide a general overview of the contributions to the literature on the informal sector, with a special focus on the Public Choice approach; and (2) to compare these contributions across two institutionally different types of countries: developed and less developed (developing and transition) countries. The paper focuses on the criteria used to d...

Factors Influencing Foreign Direct Invest- ment in Lesser Developed Countries

The Study of Differences between E-commerce Impacts on Developed Countries and Developing Countries, Case Study: USA and Iran

This study determines the impact of E-commerce (EC) on some of important economic criteria including total factor productivity( TFP) of Iran country as a developing country in comparison with US standard as a developed country through analyzing and calculating interrelated issues. The model is based on both econometrics and growth accounting approach to fill the gaps of previous studies. On the...