the dissolution of the soviet :union: faced the disintegrated east superpower with a tattered economic structure that had to be restored with the assistance of the west in an atmosphere free from ideological barriers. except for russia that still claimed to be the superpower, other countries of the collapsed soviet :union: attempted, in various degrees, to attract the west investment and techno...

Parental care increases parental fitness through improved offspring condition and survival but comes at a cost for the caretaker(s). To increase life-time fitness, caring parents are, therefore, expected to adjust their reproductive investment to current environmental conditions and parental capacities. The latter is thought to be signaled via ornamental traits of the bearer. We here investigat...

Imperfect altruism between generations may lead to insufficient capital accumulation. We study the welfare consequences of taxing the rent on a fixed production factor, such as land, in combination with age-dependent redistributions as a remedy. Taxing rent enhances welfare by increasing capital investment. This holds for any tax rate and recycling of the tax revenues except for combinations of...

The improvement of the labor market, management, expansion foreign direct investment, etc., all play a key role in economic development Western Balkans. main purpose this study is to analyze and compare trends employment, unemployment, gross domestic product (GDP), investment (FDI), market management effects on employment Balkans (Albania, Bosnia Herzegovina, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Montenegro...

This paper aims to investigate the impact of Entrepreneurship Development Training Programme (EDTP) on business growth Small and Mediumscale Enterprises (SMEs) in Nuwara Eliya district Sri Lanka. The data were collected over purposively administering structured questionnaires from 100 respondents who completed EDTP district, Partial Least Square Path Modelling (PLS) was performed explore three ...

This paper is an attempt to analyze the impact of income taxes and market capitalization on fixed investment (investment in tangible assets) by manufacturing companies listed on KSE. This paper basically examines that how corporate income taxes affect fixed investment by reducing cash flow available for a firm to invest and how the firm size in the lights of market capitalization affects fixed ...