1 Background The dynamic role of rural small and medium enterprises (RSMEs) in developing countries has long been recognized (Kayanula and Quartey, 2000). These RSMES can serve as engines through which the economic growth and employment objectives of developing countries can be achieved. However, for many years these rural enterprises have failed to grow beyond their micro enterprise nature and...

Verification of restoration policies that have been implemented is of significance to simultaneously reduce global environmental risks while also meeting economic development goals. This paper proposed a novel method according to the idea of multiple time scales to verify ecological restoration policies in the Shiyang River drainage basin, arid China. We integrated modern pollen transport chara...

Education is receiving ever-increasing priority in the post-Washington consensus era, which views education as both a means to and end of development. Despite the broader objectives of the post-Washington consensus, justification for the attention given to education continues to be centrally focused on the notion of human capital which considers education primarily in relation to its role in pr...

The core idea of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment is that the human condition is tightly linked to environmental condition. This assertion suggests that conservation and development projects should be able to achieve both ecological and social progress without detracting from their primary objectives. Whereas "win-win" projects that achieve both conservation and economic gains are a commenda...

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVE In new conditions of socio-economic development in the Ukraine, the health of the population of children is considered as the most reliable indicator of socio-economic development of the country. The primary goal of the study was analysis of the effect of contemporary socio-economic transformations, their scope, and strength of effect on the demographic and social sit...

The UN sustainable development goals contain environmental, economic, and social objectives. They may only be reached, or at least it would be easier to reach them, if instead of a trade-off between these objectives that implies a need for balancing them, there are synergies to be reaped. This paper discusses how the structures of economic models typically used in policy analysis influence whet...

The typical post-Bretton-Woods era development approach that puts great emphasis on central government efforts to promote development, has changed dramatically and local governments have now emerged as important players in development policy. Now, the concept of requirements for achieving the development objectives is changing and many countries around the world are now implementing fiscal dece...

THE ‘Doha Development Agenda’ of November 2001 puts poverty-reducing economic growth at the centre of the WTO’s considerations. If the development focus of the Doha Round is to be a meaningful operating principle, then the overriding task of the round must be to ensure that the liberalisation agreements promote development in poor countries. In practice this means prioritising reforms which yie...

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the choice between an exchange rate target and an inflation target for Norway. The paper also contains a brief discussion of the objectives of monetary policy and of an optimal delegation of monetary policy in a representative democracy, which serves to place this choice in a broader context. 1 Monetary policy goals Let me start from the presumption that ...