What is talent? How can it be identified? Who is responsible for identifying it? Are there universally valued talents, or are they all culturally bound? There are at least three different levels of analysis to explore these questions. On the government level, we must philosophically decide on how our country chooses and expresses its values through what is taught, to whom, and for what periods ...

As the global financial crisis dethrones the developed world from its economic supremacy, by leading the global economic recovery and growth, the global growth generator (3G) countries are expected to fill the vacuum. Capital market i.e. stock market development can play a crucial role in augmenting such growth in these 3G countries. This study aims at augmenting the determinants of stock marke...

Pranab Bardhan ([email protected]) is with the Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley, US. Sandip Mitra ([email protected]) is with the Economic Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. Dilip Mookherjee ([email protected]) is with the Department of Economics, Boston University, Boston, US and Abhirup Sarkar ([email protected]) is with the Economic Rese...

„Patriotism‟ and the term „Patriot‟ refer to a new awareness of Irishness that emerged toward the end of the seventeenth century and throughout the eighteenth century. The birth of Patriotism was as a result of several contributory factors following the Jacobite wars at the end of the seventeenth century. Ireland‟s constitutional status as a separate kingdom had been supported by opponents of T...

multi-criteria shortest path problems (mspp) are called as np-hard. for mspps, a unique solution for optimizing all the criteria simultaneously will rarely exist in reality. algorithmic and approximation schemes are available to solve these problems; however, the complexity of these approaches often prohibits their implementation on real-world applications. this paper describes the development ...

for rethinking the anthony giddens’s theory on “reflection”, it is necessary to reconsider his general approach to social reality, and then, situating the concept of “reflection” in the context of his general approach. thus, three-steps will be studied in the article: first, structuration theory that is most important opposition in his social theory. then, giddens's notion of tradition and...