All countries look to economic growth to reduce low-income. This paper focuses on the 1990s and assesses the role played by changes in economic growth, employment earnings and government transfers in the patterns of low-income intensity in Canada during the 1990s. We find that low-income intensity was higher in most provinces during the 1990s than during the 1980s (comparing comparable position...

The after–sales activities are nowadays acknowledged as a relevant source of revenue, profit and competitive advantage in most manufacturing industries. Top and middle management, therefore, should focus on the definition of a structured business performance measurement system for the after-sales business. The paper aims at filling this gap, and presents an integrated methodology for the after-...

This chapter focuses on one aspect of economic growth: the post-construction effect of interstate highways on income and sales expansion. Using data for all Nebraska and Iowa counties, interstate highways are found to have the most positive economic impact on areas with larger populations; small areas are not likely to experience much more than short-term gains. This finding has significant imp...

In today's complex, dynamic and constantly changing environment, companies need to design and take systems and methods that can help them adapt themselves to the changeable and dynamic situation of competitive markets, and therefore improving marketing performance and generally the company’s performance. In this regard, business intelligence systems as a new method and tool can be considered as...

Can we use neoclassical growth model to single out the important transmission channels through which external factors or "primitives" affected the Indian economy and caused the remarkable growth of the period 1982 to 2002? In this paper, we answer the question by applying the new technique of business cycle accounting to the Indian economy. Our results show us that the primary conduit of polici...

Overview This brief examines the incidence of the proposed 1 percent Transportation Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax (T-SPLOST) on different income and age groups in the Atlanta Regional Commission (ARC) region. The T-SPLOST is to be voted on by Georgians on July 31, 2012. Of particular interest is the effect the 1 percent sales tax would have on low-income families and senior citizens. W...

Granger (1966) identifies, what he terms, " the typical spectral shape " for several US macroeconomic series measured in level. King and Watson (1996) report that the growth rates of many US macroeconomic series have similar spectral shapes, although markedly different than the shape Granger identifies for level series. We estimate the spectra of post war output level and growth rate series for...

    In 2010, the World Bank categorized countries in per capita gross domestic product in terms of purchasing power parity (at constant 1990 prices) in three categories: low, middle (lower and upper) and high income. If a country caught at least 28 years in lower middle income level and at least 14 years caught in upper middle-income level, then they are trapped in lower middle and upper middle...

The advent of the World-Wide Web in 1992 eventually led to the advent of electronic commerce. eCommerce has led to the decline in sales tax revenues for various collection agencies across the U.S. The federal government has issued, and renewed, a moratorium on Internet taxes, and thus state and local governments are restricted from collecting sales tax from Internet sales. Coupled with a demise...

Software-as-a-Service providers have been growing fast while the contemporary research literature has neglected analysis of their business-critical marketing and sales processes. In this paper we collect the key factors characterizing how to market and sell SaaS to business customers into an eight dimensional model. We also use an explorative multi-case study to observe six SaaS providers and v...