This paper analyses both global and regional approaches to solving problems of energy security and ecological imbalance by addressing specifically the problems of China’s energy security. China’s growing energy dependence has become a major concern for both economic and national security policymakers in that country. The ambitious goal of modernization of the economy along the lines of the othe...

This paper presents a realistic study of applying a gene regulatory model to financial prediction. The combined adaptation of evolutionary and developmental processes used in the model highlight its suitability to dynamic domains, and the results obtained show the potential of this approach for real-world trading.

Does the Internet have the potential to accelerate development in poor nations? Or is it an innovation that will widen the gap between wealthy and poor countries? This paper places the Internet in a framework of major innovations in modern economic history that have contributed to increased global economic inequality. To study whether the Internet has the potential to do the same, we investigat...

E-commerce is considered to provide substantial benefits to business, including SMEs (Small and Medium Enterprises), largely via improved efficiencies and raised revenue, as well as the creation of opportunities for new businesses. It enables new ways of working to emerge as organisations face the future and embrace the notion of the 'new economy'. A range of factors both internal and external ...

This empirical research paper focuses on establishing a relationship between external determinants and economic growth of Pakistan economy. Empirical analyses are carried out with time series econometric techniques using data over the period of 1977-2013. The main finding is that external determinants such as foreign remittances, foreign direct investment, and foreign imports matter from a grow...

The IT productivity paradox has largely been resolved at the industrial level. At the firm level however, there is still much to understand regarding how IT contributes to firm performance. This paper investigates the performance impacts of two modes of IT valuation – efficiency and KM (Knowledge Management), by taking two external environmental factors – dynamism and hostility – into account. ...

The emergence of decentralized virtual currency systems based on cryptographic operations has been accompanied by efforts to utilize the technology as infrastructure for further applications besides cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin. So-called Decentralized Consensus Systems (DCSs) could reshape financial and other information-based industries, where the invention, registration and transfer of a...

The aim of this paper is to emphasize the importance of knowledge based economy, in this time characterized by fast changes and sometimes radical changes, it is impossible to resist without adapting, both people and the organizations too. The matter of the paper develops knowledge based economy concept: elements, definitions of the knowledge based economy, stages and the main knowledge codifica...

abstract in this paper, the effect of foreign sector macro-variable on inflation dynamics and firms’ pricing behavior has been investigated in the context of a small open economy new keynesian phillips curve. this curve is derived and estimated for a developing oil-exporting economy suffering from dutch disease. this version of nkpc is an extension of leith and malley’s (2007) small open econom...