Abstract Human development and the importance of focusing on women’s participation has become one of the main concerns and issues attracting the attention of many people. In fact, many gender-related models and patterns have been proposed in this regard. Accordingly, this paper is an attempt to evaluate the effects of development process on women’s participation in Iran using an econometrics ...

Following years of rapid economic growth, China currently faces a crisis of its economic institutions. Unconstrained business behavior has led to the accumulation of externalities with high social costs. In this paper we consider the challenges of institutional change that China faces, especially the need to evolve a system of ‘hard constraints’ reinforced by ‘soft constraints’. We describe the...

Abstract The hustla philosophy of the Jamaican economy advocates use innovative and/or illicit methods to negotiate harsh economic realities society. From two years ethnographic fieldwork in Jamaica, I gleaned that local musicians applied this support themselves and family. Most notably, rock used mindset survive their disadvantageous position on periphery reggae industry. They earned status be...

Explanations of the emergence of regional autonomy movements political organizations seeking to express sub-state affinities and interests often highlight cultural differences and economic incentives as important reasons driving regional elites and local politicians to form such organization and explain the support regional autonomy movements receive. In this paper I employ a specialized agent-...

the modern state is a renewable and evolutionary phenomenon and it cannot be evaluated so that it has single cause. therefore none of the fields of the human sciences alone cannot fully explain the emergence of the modern state without interaction with other disciplines. political superstructure in various countries, primarily influenced by the social and cultural systems of communities as the ...

ABSTRACTUsing data from the 2001 Census Public Use Microdata Files on Individuals, we examine the role of cultural preferences and economic constraints in elderly Canadians' choice of living arrangements (living with one's children and/or other relatives versus living independently). We find that members of ethnic groups holding familistic cultural values (Italian, Chinese, South Asian, and Eas...

Urban commercial quarters such as bazaars can be found all over the world, from Turkey toEgypt, from Tajikistan to Iran. In Iranian cities, bazaars have very specific and unique architectural features and theyhave played an important role as economic and social engines. In addition, bazaars are an integral part of the culturalgeography of Iran and have contributed to the definition of urban dev...

This paper explores two interrelated themes found in the anthropology of ethnic dance ensembles in Kamchatka, Russia: authenticity and the place of individual in society. I use two elite dance troupes (one professional, the other semi-professional) to analyse local categories of cultural authenticity. People in Kamchatka were vocal about representations of indigenous dance on the stage and crit...

Granato, Inglehart, and Leblang (1996a) conducted an analysis which showed that cultural values have a strong influence on long-term rates of economic growth and that a growth model without cultural values is underspecified. We conduct extensions to their work and find that culture appears to affect economic growth only in selected samples at different periods of time. Moreover, we find no evid...