Policy reform can remove obstacles to intergenerational social mobility and thereby promote equality of opportunities across individuals. Such reform will also enhance economic growth by allocating human resources to their best use. This chapter assesses recent crosscountry patterns in intergenerational social mobility and examines the role that public policies play in affecting mobility. Inter...

The Republic of Honduras is with approximately 7.7 million inhabitants the second most populated country in Central America. Honduras is also the second poorest country in Central America. Even though poverty affects the country as a whole, Honduras’ poverty is essentially a rural problem. This article analyzes rural poverty in Honduras by first providing some empirical background of Honduras a...

In the light of corporate social responsibility, company success is determined not only by economic performance but also by social and environmental performance. Hence, the value based environmental management improves corporate environmental performance and enhances business excellence. Th e purpose of this paper is to examine the differences in environmental performance among companies of var...

New information and communication technology (ICT) makes consumers better informed about available products, product quality and prices, which mitigates problems of asymmetric information. The entry of firms is facilitated, competition and economic efficiency is boosted and the market powers of households increased. Firms are likely to respond by increased product and price differentiation. The...

The task of providing supervisory services to clinical interns, trainees, and new psychologists in rural settings is often complicated by a host of environmental and economic constraints. Given the reemergence of telecommunication applications as a means of transcending similar obstacles in service delivery, the authors discuss the use of telecommunication technology as a means of enabling the ...

Cooperation is a key success factor for small and medium enterprises (SME) in most of the countries. At the beginning of the 2000s, a large European study has analysed the extent and the effect of cooperation between SMEs. However, how successful have been cooperation of SMEs during the economic crisis of the last years? Has the cooperation rate decreased or increased? What are the drivers and ...

C is developing a defense innovation system (DIS) as part of a broader effort to construct a national innovation system (NIS) that incorporates a system-of-systems approach. Modeled on China’s commercial-sector economic development zones and investment strategies, the DIS is focused on enhancing integration and interaction among key defense industry actors, institutions, industry sectors, and r...

This paper shows that access to finance is the crucial factor in explaining the link between the historical African slave trade and current GDP. We show: (1) The slave trade is strongly linked to current firm access to finance; (2) Among all the business obstacles a firm faces, the slave trade affects only access to finance; and (3) The slave trade erodes access to both formal credit and the tr...

The presence of women in social and managerial fields is one the indicator of social justice and development that leads to optimum use of capabilities and potentials of half of the country's rural population. In the recent years, establishing public institution of Dehyary by the Ministry of Interior have provided new opportunity for women presence in rural management. This study aimed to identi...