The gap between the world's rich and poor countries largely comes down to the financial and physical assets that create wealth. Developed economies possess more of this capital than developing ones, and what they have usually incorporates more advanced technologies. The implication is clear: A key aspect of economic advancement lies in poorer nations' capacity to acquire more capital and scale ...

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There exists an abundance of literature highlighting the relationship of informatics and economic development. At the present time, the most widespread diffusion of informatics in developing countries consists primarily of economic activities related to its consumption rather than its production. Consequently, the informatics issues of most concern to developing countries are those associated w...

Alternative approaches to modelling distributional and welfare effects of changes in policy and the economic environment in developing and transition countries are surveyed. Microsimulations range from pure accounting approaches to models with behavioural equations based on econometric estimates and various dynamic models. Microsimulation accounting models are key to analysing the impact effect...

The new global economic system has become a big problem to the developing economies. Such economies are passing through a period of dilemmas, contradictions and social challenges. The reasons may be attributed to the pressures exercised by the developed economies through WTO, structural adjustments, competitive markets, regionalisation of economies and domestic realities. The new global economi...

This paper focuses on the post-war process of creation of a global trading system and integration of world trade. As the former came into being, multilateral trade liberalization became an on-going feature of the global economy facilitating international trade, consequently importance of international trade in the global economy increased dramatically. Since the mid-1980s, mindset of policy mak...

The level of IT investment amongst organisations in developing economies is increasing. Growing evidence however, indicates, that the majority of these economies still fail to capitalise on their IT investment to source business values. For business values to materialise, effective governance of IT related resources is paramount. This entails that the presence of effective IT governance (ITG) s...

With their increasing shares of global emissions developing economies are increasingly being pressured to assume a greater role in global greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction. Developed countries have invested tremendously in and proclaimed renewable energy (RE) and associated smart power technologies as solutions to meet their energy demands and reduce their GHG emissions at the same time. ...

Medical emergencies are part of the common daily lives of people in developing and under-developed economies. Frequently, some of these medical emergencies end up tragically for many people in these countries due to many reasons, one of which depends on the delivery of the medical treatment especially when the patient is uncommunicative or unresponsive. The ability of the attending medical pers...