Executive summary Dramatic forces of change are sweeping the banking industry. The age of the empowered customer is here, changing the way financial products are being created, delivered, sold and serviced by banks. Relationships with clients, partners and regulators are more complex than ever. The digital world has leveled the competitive environment and the inflexibility of a traditional bank...

In an 80-country panel since the 1960s, the convergence rate for per capita GDP is around 1.7% per year. This “beta convergence” is conditional on an array of explanatory variables that hold constant countries’ long-run characteristics. The introduction of country fixed effects generates a much higher—and, I argue, misleading—convergence rate. In a much longer time frame—28 countries since 1870...

Societal Impact Statement The Green Revolution is commonly understood as the dramatic increase in food production Mexico and India between 1940s 1970s due to spread of new agricultural technologies, especially high-yielding seed varieties. Beyond this conventional understanding, however, historians are now revealing occurrence of—and connections between—various Revolutions across space time. Th...

    Over the past few decades, the family affected by the processes, and consequences of modernization has experienced profound changes in both objective-structural and semantic-subjective levels. The family has faced new issues, some of which represent progress and welfare, and some suggest traumatic social issues which reduce the pace of development in the society as hindering factors. Thus, ...

Abstract This paper discusses and synthesizes the consequences of archaeogenetic revolution to our understanding mobility social change during Neolithic period in Europe (6500–2000 BC). In spite major obstacles a productive integration archaeological anthropological knowledge with ancient DNA data, larger changes European gene pool are detected taken as indications for large-scale migrations tw...

The actual development of human history shows that Knowledge, as a particular social class, has an extremely important position and role in the modern scientific technological revolution. As science technology become more direct productive forces, intellectuals society becomes increasingly important. Over years, Vietnam always determined is creative workforce, especially process promoting indus...

Historians of migration have increasingly criticized the idea of a ‘mobility transition’, which assumed that pre-modern societies in Europe were geographically fairly immobile, and that people only started to move in unprecedented ways with the onset of modernization in the nineteenth century. In line with this critique, this article attempts to apply thorough quantitative tests to the availabl...