Socio-Economic Systems’ Competitiveness Assessment Method

Complexity in Socio-Economic Systems

Health research systems: promoting health equity or economic competitiveness?

International collaborative health research is justifiably expected to help reduce global health inequities. Investment in health policy and systems research in developing countries is essential to this process but, currently, funding for international research is mainly channelled towards the development of new medical interventions. This imbalance is largely due to research legislation and po...

Designing a Socio-Economic Assessment Method for Integrative Biomedical Research: The Osteoporotic Virtual Physiological Human Project

In integrative biomedical research, methods assessing the clinical or even socio-economic impact of more complex technologies such as Information and Communication Technology (ICT)-based tools for modelling and simulation of human physiology have rarely been applied. The EU funded Osteoporotic Virtual Physiological Human (VPHOP) research project, part of the Virtual Physiological Human (VPH) Eu...

The Competitiveness of Thailand: Economic Analysis from Competitiveness Reports

The Competitiveness of Thailand: Economic Analysis from Competitiveness Reports An important question for researchers and policy markers is how to efficiently allocate limited resources for sustainable economic growth. In this paper, Global Competitiveness Reports of the World Economic Forum (WEF) and the World Competitiveness Yearbooks of the International Institute for Management Development ...

WOMEN’S SOCIO-ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT THROUGH PARTICIPATORY APPROACH A Critical Assessment

This study assesses the effects of a Government run participatory development project on the social and economic empowerment of women and its implications for poverty alleviation in Nasirabad area of Balochistan (a province of Pakistan). The need to evaluate the project’s effects in terms of empowerment arises due to the perception that interventions in the form of programs and projects have li...