Abstract A brief comparative analysis of US and Chinese infrastructure projects is provided. The world-system approach, which sets the objective possibilities limitations strategies United States China as interconnected parts world economy politics, was chosen methodological basis. first part this article describes well position People’s Republic in modern system international relations. second...

in recent years, fashion has been introduced as a prominent taste which is imposed by owners of this industry to the society. recently change of consumption patterns have been increased rapidly, while changes in fashion industry has also changed industries and economies of these countries as well. through changes in global relationships and structures, omitting industrial concentrated productio...

BACKGROUND Tiered pricing - the concept of selling drugs and vaccines in developing countries at prices systematically lower than in industrialized countries - has received widespread support from industry, policymakers, civil society, and academics as a way to improve access to medicines for the poor. We carried out case studies based on a review of international drug price developments for an...

Despite the substantial growth of private schooling in developing countries in the past three decades, there has been little attention paid to the question of how public schools are experiencing and responding to competition in these contexts. To address this research gap, I conduct a competitionfocused analysis using primary survey data collected from two districts with high private school mar...

T paper extends our previous studies on the assimilation of Internet-based e-business innovations by firms in an international setting. Drawing upon theories on the process and contexts of technology diffusion, we develop an integrative model to examine three assimilation stages: initiation→ adoption→ routinization. The model features technological, organizational, and environmental contexts as...

We study the (parameterized) complexity of SHIFT BRIBERY for multiwinner voting rules. We focus on the SNTV, Bloc, k-Borda, and Chamberlin-Courant, as well as on approximate variants of the Chamberlin-Courant rule, since the original rule is NP-hard to compute. We show that SHIFT BRIBERY tends to be significantly harder in the multiwinner setting than in the single-winner one by showing setting...