one of the most important macro-economic objectives of the countries is to create the necessary conditions for promoting economic growth. among them, we can point to political stability and economic freedom. political instability leads to wasting physical and human resources and social capital, which will be considered as an economic rollback. also, the rate of economic growth is associated wit...

Governance is a way of exercising power in economic and social resource management of a country. Good governance criteria have different weights and relation with regard to the conditions and information of any country. This study is a descriptive survey and has been carried out to calculate the coefficients and weights of each indicator of good governance in Mena countries and identification o...

Sustainable design-centered manufacturing (SDM) will create competitive advantages for future new product development. However, selecting and balancing the indicators for economic, environmental, and social sustainability is difficult. In this research, we define the major indicators of social sustainability for development of SDM and propose a Balanced Scorecard method to evaluate the weightin...

The present chapter examines the relationship of older persons’ living arrangements to indicators of social and economic development at the national level, and, at the individual level, to three socioeconomic characteristics: rural/urban residence, education and an index of material well-being. The general expectation, based on earlier literature regarding changes in families and households in ...

The Baltic States regained independence and started the pathway from command economy to market economy and entered European Union at the same time. Latter internationally recognized evaluations for the countries are diverse. The present diversity of the Baltic States ’Economic Development is a subject of interest because of the similarities – all three are small, open economies, countries have ...

the rights of citizens to provide social justice, due to emphasis on the basic needs of human beings, known as one of the most fundamental principles in international documents of human rights and civil rights. it's indicators include the right to a fair life, right to health, right to education, right to social security, and right to work and employment, which in human rights documents, p...