Regional economic structure is defined as the composition and patterns of various components of the regional economy such as: production, employment, consumption, trade, and gross regional product. Structural change is conceptualized as the change in relative importance of the aggregate indicators of the economy. The process of regional development and structural change are intertwined, implyin...

In light of the recent economic crisis, a particular emphasis has been placed on the measurement of productivity and performance of agricultural sectors worldwide. This article deals with the assessment of the performance of the Czech agricultural sector using three measures: multifactor productivity, economic value added, and financial performance. The authors also compared the development of ...

We apply the two-sector production function developed by Ram (1986) to estimate the threshold regression model for Iran, concerning the effect of government size on economic growth. Three government size indicators are used to find out the different threshold points. The results show a non-linear relationship of the Armey curve in Iran, in which the threshold effects corresponding to total gove...

An Analysis of Macroeconomic Impacts Produced by the Fixed Capital Investment in China Liu Baojun Tianjin University of Finance and Economics, Tianjin, 300222,China Abstract. In this paper we analyzed macroeconomic impacts produced by fixed capital investment in China, and proposed a model to analyze effect of structural change of fixed capital investment for macroeconomic impacts of fixed capi...

This article presents statistics on health care utilization, prices, expenses, employment, and workhours as well as on national economic activity. Some of these statistics are based on sample surveys conducted monthly or quarterly by government agencies or private organizations and are available 1 to 3 months after the completion of the period. They provide the first glimpse at changes occurrin...

Vietnam grew rapidly in the 1990s, and yet by many measures it has poor economic institutions. The objective of this paper is to explain this apparent anomaly. Between the 1980s and 1990s Vietnam carried out significant economic reforms, notably stabilization, introduction of positive real interest rates, trade liberalization, and initial property rights reform in agriculture. Relating these ch...

Today's competitive world has led managers to shift from traditional management to scientific management. Supply chain management is one of key issues in industries because, considering a high number of competitors in today's competitive world, competition has been extended from company level to the level of competition on their supply chain. For any organization seeking to achieve its goals in...

Conventional measures of banking sector The traditional indicators utilized for assessing the size, depth and development of a country’s banking (financial) sector are: • The ratio of M2 to GDP • The ratio of private credit to GDP. In particular, both these measures have been used to show the causal effects of financial development on economic growth. However, both measures have some limitation...