in this paper, a model for evaluating and ranking constructive projects will be presented. this model is based on six key criteria and a conceptual framework. these main evaluation criteria include: good history, equipment and machinery, management and technical staff, economic - financial skills and experience, and scientific and technical capabilities. these criteria and their weights were de...

Drawing on the model on financial planning for retirement (FPR), the aim of this work is to explore how parental economic socialization both directly and indirectly affects FPR through the mediation of financial literacy, financial planning decisions and financial management. Data from a sample of 280 participants aged between 45 and 63 years were used. The results show that parental economic s...

Factors leading to financial reform The financial system of a country, regardless of time or place, is maintained to meet the economic conditions of that country. In the process of economic development, however, there occur new economic or technological conditions that foster change of the financial system: the coherence between the old financial system and the new conditions breaks down; inter...

If China’s current rate of growth continues, the size of its economy will ex-­ ceed that of the United States in only 12 years. Even if this projection is overly optimistic, China’s growth track record has been remarkable, as can be seen in figure 4.1. Our chapter reflects on the Chinese growth experi-­ ence from the perspective of an empirical multicountry model in the neo-­ classical traditio...

In the middle of two crises, the first one in 1982 and a second one in 1986, Mexico initiated a new economic strategy, inaugurated with two important reforms: trade liberalization, and financial liberalization and deregulation. With the first reform the economic wanted to reposition Mexico in the international division of labor. With the second one they aimed at attracting capital inflows and m...