The research on the determinants of economic growth has taken a new dynamic pattern in recent times. More studies are now explaining need to better consider socio-economic indicators that promote across globe. Hence, this paper examined relationship between and both Nigeria South Africa covering period 1999-2020. Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) estimation technique was employed. results study show...

We analyze monetary transmission in Germany and focus on two elements. First, we address the role of asset prices in monetary transmission, especially the role of housing and equity. We show that including assets helps in understanding the monetary transmission process. Housing is found to be more important in Germany than equity. Next we emphasize the role of business cycle indicators in VAR-m...

This paper presents the contribution of electric vehicles to the distribution grid and railway station parking lots and their uncontrolled charging impacts on these grids. The economic indicators have been chosen as performance criteria. The benefits and advantages of using the charging/discharging coordination in sense of economic indicators have been evaluated by using mixed integer linear pr...

Infant mortality rate (IMR) is often considered a better indicator of the overall success of a nation than gross domestic product (GDP) or other leading economic indicators. This study analyzes the relationships between lead economic and health indicators and IMR in developed and developing countries. The analysis uses 2005, 2009, and 2012 panel data from the World Bank and the United Nations H...

Nowadays, technological progress is one of the most important components of economic growth and the efficiency of R&D activities is particularly essential for countries. This study is an attempt to analyze the R&D efficiencies of EU countries. The indicators related to R&D efficiencies should be determined in advance in order to use DEA. For this reason a list of input and output indicators are...

Little previous research has explored what drives the diversification of national food supplies (DFS) across countries and regions. We construct and analyse a cross-country dataset linking a simple DFS indicator - the share of calories supplied by nonstaple foods - with structural transformation and agroecological indicators. Panel econometric models show that several indicators of structural t...

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is a reliable source of international data on various areas of economic and social well-being, including health care. It collects data for indicators of quality of care for more than 30 countries. These indicators are used in this report to provide an in-depth look at Canada’s health system compared with health systems in other O...

There is a large amount of discussion in the literature about smart cities where the focus of the discourse is on gathering and analyzing real-time data from smartphones or other sensors to support public services such as vehicular traffic flow and utility consumption or to infer human behaviour. There does not appear to be any discussion of ‘socially’ smart cities where the focus is on using c...

Development of S&T indicators is expected to provide policy-makers and planners with a broad information base to assist national development planning. While much methodological work has been undertaken to develop S&T indicators, these indicators have often failed to create effective policies for scientific and technological development. The majority of the existing S&T indicators have little re...