Microcredit scheme is an important poverty alleviation method that facilitates the development of rural communities by creating and developing income-generating activities, especially for low-income women. The present study was aimed to examine the effectiveness of the microcredit fund scheme on the economic empowerment of rural women in Tehran Province, Iran. It was carried out by a survey met...

Existing growth research provides little explanation for the very large differences in long-run growth performance across OECD countries. We show that cognitive skills can account for growth differences within the OECD, whereas a range of economic institutions and quantitative measures of tertiary education cannot. Under the growth model estimates and plausible projection parameters, school imp...

The article discloses the notion of “Business English” and the role of the most popular language, which provides the communication among economic subjects in the era of globalization, modernization and integration. There are analyzed modern demands to the process of future economist professional study, in which the greatest meaning is accentuated on the communicative skills and high level of th...

Issues related to a “skills” strategy, or perhaps more accurately a “high skills” strategy, appear to be near the top of the public policy agenda. Internationally, for example, the United Kingdom’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, indicated recently that he was “very much focused on the problems that arise for productivity and social cohesion if there is not a sufficient opportunity f...