Based on data from the 2017 China Household Finance Survey and Peking University Digital Inclusive Index, this paper empirically examines impact of development digital finance rural residents' consumption. It is found that has significantly raised consumption level residents optimized structure to a certain extent. But it did not realize leap survival enjoyment in real sense. Therefore, policy ...

An electronic government (e-Government) is essentially an amalgam of interconnected heterogeneous information systems belonging to both government agencies and public and private sectors with a goal of modernizing the government's highly fragmented servicecentric information infrastructure by improving information flow and the decision-making process (Joshi, 2001a). The e-Government environment...

Infrastructure projects often require large investments, can have long gestation periods, and typically involve multiple parties: government, private sector firms and outside investors. Government and private sector firms must expend effort to implement and maintain the projects, may derive private benefits in participating in the project, and may possess only limited information. Moreover, gov...

A number of chapters in this book describe innovative infrastructure components and practices that represent efficient ways to improve the sustainability of urban development. History teaches us, however, that the take-up of innovations depends on their social acceptability and their economics. When the frame is expanded to incorporate sustainability considerations, the relevant take-up issues ...

Public-Private Partnership (PPP) schemes in delivering economic and social infrastructure are growing developing countries worldwide. Various countries, including Indonesia, has also been preparing numerous projects, ranging from larger-scale infrastructures that include toll roads to multifunction satellites smaller-scale water supply, solid-waste management, regional hospital projects. With t...

This study aims at determining the personality traits and investment patterns in the stock market and presenting the pattern with a behavioral finance approach. This is an applied, descriptive- survey, and cross-sectional study. The statistical population includes real investors in the Tehran Stock Exchange. The required information was collected using questionnaire and was analyzed using SPSS ...

This study investigates Greek accounting offices use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). Initially, a comprehensive questionnaire was developed. It contains 35 questions with multiple answers and 2 open questions tailored to the accountants. One hundred accountants’ offices in a Greek county answered the questionnaire. The findings present their current ICT infrastructure and t...

Data on 778 establishments indicates that firms in Kenya rely on technologies such as computers, generators, and cell-phones to conduct operations when regulations, infrastructure, security, workforce, corruption, and finance pose significant hurdles in the business environment. Obstacles related to regulations, security, and workforce, increase the probability of technology ownership, whereas ...

This paper reports an exploratory study of 19 Australian SMEs which had successfully used eCommerce develop to or enhance their export capability. The purpose of the study was to identify both successful adoption processes and impediments to using eCommerce for export. Few companies had adopted a strategic and planned approach to managing this adoption. The lack of easily accessed and trustwort...

In Japan, the development and financing of infrastructure are traditionally dominated by the public sector. Learning from the failures of so called ‘‘third sector’’ projects in the 1970s and 1980s as well as based on experience from the Private Finance Initiative (PFI) in other countries, Japan introduced a PFI Promotion Law in 1999 to enhance private participation in the provision of infrastru...