Concept Of Economic Development Research Articles

Sustainable Regional Economic Development

(2001). Sustainable Regional Economic Development. Journal of Economic Issues: Vol. 35, Papers From The 2001 AFEE Meeting, pp. 469-476.

Supping With the Dismal Scientists: Practical Interdisciplinarity in Language Education and Development Economics

For the many living in destitution throughout the developing world, the concept of economic development makes little sense unless it brings tangible improvements in basic living standards. It is generally agreed that a key ingredient in creating favourable conditions for this development is language education and especially literacy. Thus language education and development economics should form natural academic bedfellows. Yet, a survey of recent research in language education shows that little attention is currently given to the economic constraints within which language education efforts should be framed. The paper explores some historical and intellectual causes for this lack of interdisciplinarity. It stresses the importance of universals of economic development and identifies trust in the ability of the intended beneficiaries of development policies to make appropriate choices as a key factor in implementing these policies. It reviews three development settings in Bangladesh, Egypt, and Latin Americathat illustrate the need to devolve responsibility for development to the beneficiaries themselves, especially women. It notes that language education and especially basic literacy in local languages play an important role in this process and stresses that this type of language education should be differentiated from often unfocused, yet resource-costly efforts to promote English instead.

Transforming Atlantis, South Africa, through local economic development

The concept of Local Economic Development is gaining widespread acceptance in South Africa. There are at present few examples of local communities which have developed and applied concrete strategies and programmes. One major exception is that of the apartheid created ‘coloured’ town of Atlantis near Cape Town. The removal of state support and associated economic and social problems galvanised the local community into action. With the assistance of outside agencies a Local Economic Development strategy was identified and is currently being implemented. Modest success has been achieved and the basis for sustained local development is being laid. The experience of Atlantis serves to illustrate the potential which South African communities have to initiate a process of locally-driven development.

Sustainable competitive participation: A role for the federal government and the national laboratories

A clear and appropriate role is presented for the federal government and the national laboratories with respect to technology development, technology utilization and competitiveness. The selective use of federal policy tools and resources for enhancing economic competitiveness and for providing “sustainable” economic development is proposed. A novel approach to a coherent national R&D strategy is advocated with three major components: tax credits, technology facilitation, and federal investment directed towards sustainable competitive participation Sustainable competitive participation is based on the blending of the concepts of economic competitiveness and sustainable development. Four sectors of technology development and competitiveness are considered for this comprehensive national science and technology strategy. Several examples illustrate the appropriate federal government and national laboratory role in sustainable competitive participation.

Business and Accounting Ethics in Islam

The present book represents the first serious attempt to explore Islamicbusiness and accounting ethics. After placing their subject in a broad Islamicframework, which they have documented quite ably, they then compare thedistinctive features of Islamic business and accounting principles with Westerntheory and practice. While the book has several strong points and breaks newground in a number of areas, it also lacks clarity and specific authority fromIslamic sources on quite a few points.To begin with, the authors argue quite convincingly that the logical corollaryof prohibiting riba (interest) is the negation of any time value for money.Thus the theory and practice of capital budgeting, which feature in the use discountedcash flow techniques in the West, become redundant. This point,seemingly so obvious to economists, has not found favor with the economicthinking of the Islamic establishment. Rather, many Muslim economists andaccountants have been busy justifying it on one pretext or another. This is thefitst time that somebody has come out with a compelling discussion of this question.The authos have also argued that Islam absolutely forbids the nonrepaymentof a debt. Thus the concept of limited liability, one of mainsprings ofeconomic power in a capitalist society, is not recognized by Islam. However,the related theory of incorporation, the legal mechanism for justifying limitedliability, is found in Islamic societies. Again, such an obvious and sensiblepoint remains unacceptable to Muslim economists. They continue looking forexcuses to accept these ideas, thereby betraying their intellectual poverty.Although the authors do not devote a single chapter to the state’s economicrole in Islam, they discuss this question throughout the book Theyargue for a strong regulatory and framework role for the Islamic state.Gambling and Abdel Karim deal with several other important issues. Forinstance, they argue that the Islamic concept of economic development revolvesaround the development of human resources rather than capital formation,as is the main focus of the popular theory of development in the West.In their discussion of the Islamic concept of shura (consultation) and khilafa(vice-gerency), they also bteak new ground. They opine that these conceptsquestion ...

State Economic Policy: The Emerging Paradigm

The conventional paradigm of state economic development policy focused on the attraction of firms from outside the state. Since the early 1970s, the states have expanded their concern to include development of the state economy as a whole. Out of the ad hoc experimentation of the past 2 decades is emerging a new paradigm of state economic development policy with three principal elements. The first is a concept of economic development as a process rooted in a market-driven private sector. The second is a new set of state responsibilities, including a wide range of public actions that affect the process of development. And the third is a set of new institutional capacities required for shaping and carrying out those new responsibilities. During the 1980s, states attempted to devise economic strategies that accounted for their new responsibilities, which had been only dimly defined. In the 1990s, states also will need institutional change strategies required to develop the capacity to more sharply define and carry out those responsibilities.

The Development Strategy of Participation in the "Great International Cycle"—Debating Some Issues with Comrade Wang Jian

Publication in the Jingji ribao (Economic daily) of January 5, 1988, of Comrade Wang Jian's article The Correct Strategy for Long-Term Economic Development—Concept of the Development Strategy of Joining the ‘Great International Cycle’ has aroused tremendous interest in the nation because of the new departure of ideas it revealed. Wang attempted to uncover the major contradiction in China's current stage of economic development and then establish the appropriate development strategy, steps, and countermeasures to meet them. This line of analysis is logically inspiring. His idea of giving priority to the development of labor-intensive exports to earn foreign currency, with which to promote the upgrading of all industry, is a concrete manifestation of combining modern development theories with Chinese realities. However, certain viewpoints in the article are debatable.

The Correct Strategy for Long-Term Economic Development—Concept of the Development Strategy of Joining the "Great International Cycle"

The general goal of the next stage of Chinese economic development is to go forward toward a mature industrialized society, a process that may continue well into the middle of the next century. To reach this goal, we must choose a correct development strategy, and, to do so, there must be in-depth understanding of the background and contradictions in that stage.

Urban Enterprise Zones: Employment Impacts and Fiscal Incentives

Abstract The urban enterprise zone is an economic development concept that has been implemented by a large majority of state governments in the United States. Yet there is little evidence demonstrating that this concept is effective at generating new ecnomomic development at the local level. Nor does previous research on enterprise zones take into account external effects that may stimulate or deter economic growth within a zone. This article seeks to remedy these problems by carrying out a disaggregated analysis of new job development within an enterprise zone, and by presenting a method that enables external growth stimuli and industrial composition to be factored out of the enterprise zone evaluation process. This method relies on shift-share analysis to reveal the comparative advantage of an enterprise zone for generating economic growth relative to the larger metropolitan area of which it is a geographic component. The method is applied to the Evansville, Indiana, Urban Enterprise Zone. From this analysis we conclude that the enterprise zone concept can be a cost-effective local economic development tool.

Concepts of Capital Accumulation and Economic Development: Samir Amin's Contradictions

(1989). Concepts of Capital Accumulation and Economic Development: Samir Amin's Contradictions. Rethinking Marxism: Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 83-103.

Competing Perspectives on Cross-National Crime: An Evaluation of Theory and Evidence

Cross-national studies of crime are dominated by a Durkheimian-Modernization theoretical perspective. We evaluate this perspective and present two alternatives, the Marxian-World System and Ecological-Opportunity perspectives. Each is for its theory of social change, causal explanation of criminal behavior, conceptualization of law and crime rates, and view of the relation between collective political behavior and crime. The empirical evidence is assessed and weak support is found for the dominant perspective. The article concludes by reconsidering the concepts of economic development and crime rates.

External Economic Adjustment and Major Industrial Development Concepts

External Economic Adjustment and Major Industrial Development Concepts

Politics and higher education in Brazil: 1964–1986

Brazilian education, and higher education in particular, were transformed by the coup of 1964 and the two decades of military government that followed. In this article the political ideology of the military governments is described together with the concepts of national political security and national economic development. The implications of these concepts being translated into policy, especially in the context of the relationship between Brazil and the U.S.A., are considered with reference to the role education should have within modernisation. In conclusion, a counterargument is presented in respect of how higher education should now be conceptualized, organised and operated in post-military Brazil.

The Concept of Sustainable Economic Development

Increasing recognition that the overall goals of environmental conservation and economic development are not conflicting but can be mutually reinforcing, has prompted calls for ‘environmentally sustainable’ economic development. Although there are difficulties in defining sustainable development in an analytically rigorous way, there is still a need to evolve a concept of sustainability that both distinguishes it from other post-war meanings of development and is useful for practical analysis and policymaking.

Urban Class and Communal Consciousness in Colonial Punjab: The Genesis of India's Intermediate Regime

A cornerstone of Wallerstein's (1974) theory of the capitalist world system is that economic development occurs in certain (core) regions of the world system at the expense of development in other (peripheral) regions. This thesis, accepted in one form or another by scholars following a dependency, neo-Marxist, or unequal exchange conception of economic development (as, for example, Amin 1976 or Laclau 1971; see discussion in Foster-Carter 1973 and Kahn 1980: 203ff) provides the foundation for their avowal of the ‘development of underdevelopment.’ The development of the core industrial capitalist nations required, so they argue, the distorted and repressed economic development of the third world.

The Origin of United States' Academic Interest in Foreign Economic Development

Previous articleNext article No AccessThe Origin of United States' Academic Interest in Foreign Economic DevelopmentJames R. SimpsonJames R. Simpson Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Economic Development and Cultural Change Volume 24, Number 3Apr., 1976 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/450902 Views: 1Total views on this site Citations: 2Citations are reported from Crossref Copyright 1976 The University of ChicagoPDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Art King, Brian Simboli Hybrid Views on Endogenous and Exogenous Influences in Economics: The Case of International Economic Development, SSRN Electronic Journal (Jan 2016).https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2776814María Margarita Fajardo The Smooth Transit of Economic Theory Through the North-South Relations in the Population and Development Area During the Cold War: The Case of the 'Centro De Estudios Sobre Desarrollo Económico-Cede' (El Tránsito Suave De La Teoría Económica a Través De Las Relaciones Norte-Sur En El Área De Población Y Desarrollo Durante La Guerra Fría: El Caso Del Centro De Estudios Sobre Desarrollo Económico-Cede), SSRN Electronic Journal (Jan 2008).https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1479699

Concerning the Concept of the Economic Development of the Central Zone of Siberia and the Far East

Between the Urals in the west and the Sea of Okhotsk in the east there is an enormous zone (3 million square kilometers) that is little developed but is rich in natural resources. The northern boundary of this zone coincides approximately with the northern boundary of forests. The southern boundary can conditionally be drawn along the Trans-Siberian mainline. The territory under investigation includes the Konda and Surgut area along the Ob, Vasiugan'e, the Enisei ridge, the latitudinal part of the Lena River Basin, the Aldan highlands, and the Okhotsk coast from Sakhalin Gulf to Nagaev Bay (see map).

History of Economic Thought, Concepts of Economic Development and Their Relations with the Formation of Economic Policy in the 17th-18th Centuries

History of Economic Thought, Concepts of Economic Development and Their Relations with the Formation of Economic Policy in the 17th-18th Centuries

Schumpeter and the Underdeveloped Countries

I. Introductory: statements by Wallich and others of the inapplicability to the underdeveloped countries of Schumpeter's theory of economic development, 422. — II. Criticism of the contrasts drawn between the underdeveloped countries and Schumpeter's model as to the motive force of development (governments, not private entrepreneurs) and the goals of development (public good, not private gain), 424. — III. And as to the method of development (assimilation, not innovation), 433. — IV. Consideration of the significance of the international demonstration effect, 438. — V. Criticism of Bonne's complaints of the limitations of Schumpeter's conception of economic development, 440. — VI. Account of the reasons for Schumpeter's self-imposed limitations, 445. — VII. Summary and conclusion, 447.

English Economists and the State-Managed Economy

Previous articleNext article No AccessEnglish Economists and the State-Managed EconomyJoseph A. SchumpeterJoseph A. Schumpeter Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Journal of Political Economy Volume 57, Number 5Oct., 1949 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/256862 Views: 9Total views on this site Citations: 9Citations are reported from Crossref Copyright 1949 The University of Chicago PressPDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Paweł Trippner, Rafał Jóźwicki The essence, methods and results of assessing profitability of a non-public university, Finanse i Prawo Finansowe 1, no.3333 (Mar 2022): 59–77.https://doi.org/10.18778/2391-6478.1.33.04Karol ledzik 'Fettered' and 'Unfettered' Capitalism in J.A. Schumpeter's Concept of Tax State and Economic Development, SSRN Electronic Journal (Jan 2015).https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2594663C. Schubert How to evaluate creative destruction: reconstructing Schumpeter's approach, Cambridge Journal of Economics 37, no.22 (Jan 2013): 227–250.https://doi.org/10.1093/cje/bes055Sergio Noto Beyond the Business Cycle and Socialism: The Late Schumpeter's Corporatist View, SSRN Electronic Journal (Jan 2008).https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1261910Günther Chaloupek Schumpeter on Inflation and Economic Policy, (Mar 2011): 77–87.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-56073-6_6Joshua S Gans On the impossibility of rational choice under incomplete information, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 29, no.22 (Mar 1996): 287–309.https://doi.org/10.1016/0167-2681(95)00064-XPetur O. Jonsson Social Influence and Individual Preferences: On Schumpeter's Theory of Consumer Choice, Review of Social Economy 52, no.44 (Dec 1994): 301–314.https://doi.org/10.1080/758523326Richard Swedberg Can capitalism survive? Schumpeter's answer and its relevance for new institutional economics, European Journal of Sociology 33, no.22 (Jul 2009): 350–380.https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003975600006500Nicholas W. Balabkins Repressed inflation and pseudoinnovations, Technovation 3, no.33 (Aug 1985): 187–197.https://doi.org/10.1016/0166-4972(85)90013-6