By tracing Japan’s history, we argue that families and communities have played important roles in the country’s successful socieconomic performance. The argument is first made by comparing Japan’s socioeconomic data with those of other Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries. Then, we look into some case studies to gain a better understanding of the roles played ...

Cities are centers of technology-based transformations and play pivotal role in economic procedures. Moreover, cities are the social, cultural pivots and center for political challenges either in peace or violence and war. Cities possess a distinguishing share in societies’ economic growth and development. Future of the development of the developing countries is concentrated in cities. Theref...

among the various efforts coping with the causes and roots of differences in economic development in iran and south korea, none has focused on the role of social capital. meanwhile, in recent years, we have been facing the development of a theory about the linkage of social capital and economic development and a great attention has been paid to it by international economic organizations. in thi...

Proponents of economic globalization view it as a key to future economic development and in general it is considered a positive force for improved quality of life, acceleration of economic growth, efficient allocation of resources and greater productivity enhancements. Whereas, anti-globalization camp argues that it increases poverty and leads to worsening in the distribution of income. Like ma...

abstract: decentralization is a process in which local affairs are administrated by local authorities outside of activities of the central government. today, decentralization policy is considered as one of the ways that most countries adopted to improve public sector performance. in this paper using geometric analysis, innovation that this paper represents, an econometric model is considered to...

This research suggests that a Darwinian evolution of entrepreneurial spirit played a significant role in the process of economic development and the dynamics of inequality within and across societies. The study argues that entrepreneurial spirit evolved non-monotonically in the course of human history. In early stages of development, risk-tolerant, growth promoting traits generated an evolution...

This article analyzes different factors leading to economic and social disparities: the relationship between economic growth and inequality; the linkage between social disparities and environmental degradation; inequalities caused by globalization; gender discrimination and its impacts on economic growth; corruption damaging sound economic development and leading to more social disparities, etc...