One of the problems confronting the Nigerian nation is unemployment and regional imbalance in employment has now become a pressing national issue. The aim of this study is to find out whether or not the current pattern of employment in the federal civil Service reflects the six geopolitical zones of Nigeria. Secondary data on the number of persons employed in the Federal Civil Service from 2008...

This chapter asks: What is information overload? At what levels of existence does it occur? Are there any features common to information overload at all these levels? What are information overload’s types? What are information overload’s current and future trends? What problems do they pose? How can they be addressed in both effective and morally justified ways? It argues that there is anarchy ...

What is the most frequent reason why manuscripts get rejected? Inappropriate samples? Faulty measures? Weak results? In reflecting on my experiences as a reviewer, the most common reason I see for manuscripts not being accepted is the size of the contribution. Every manuscript has its methods-related limitations, and certainly some of these can render even the most provocative idea unpublishabl...

Like many small countries, croatia faces the dual challenge of creating a sustainable economy in a globalized world and of providing its citizens with a secure future. this challenge is considerable and is not made easier by the fact that croatia declared independence only in 1991, and secured it only after a violent war ending in 1995. the country is now a candidate for membership of the Europ...

1 Central Animal Facility, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore-560 012, India. 2 Anjuman Arts, Sciences & Commerce College, Bijapur-586101, India. 3 Research Centre, Electron Microscope Unit, # 5, College of Science, King Saud University, P.O. Box 2455, Riyadh 11451, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. 4 Centre for Sustainable Technologies, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore-560 012, India. * Corre...

Central bank communication plays an important role in shaping market participants’ expectations. This paper studies a simple nonlinear model of monetary policy in which agents have incomplete information about the economic environment. It shows that agents’ learning and the dynamics of the economy are heavily affected by central bank transparency about its policy rule. A central bank that does ...

As China moves forward in its transition toward a market economy, the budget becomes increasingly important as a policy instrument. Along with monetary policy, it is the Government’s main tool for maintaining macroeconomic stability and allocating resources to achieve policy objectives, taking over the role that used to be preformed by the Plan. As the Plan is stripped of its resource support a...

This article is a longitudinal analysis of the relation between gendered labour divisions and new data processing technologies at the Dutch Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Following social-constructivist and evolutionary economic approaches, the authors hold that the relation between technology and work organization is a two-way process. This means that technology does not only affect the r...

I thank Dr. Sesha Iyer and Dr. Pattnaik for the invitation to address this young audience. In monetary analysis and policy, inflation expectations play a pivotal role. Recently, in many advanced economies, central banks have substantially expanded their balance sheets, which is apparently inflationary. However, central banks in these countries allay the inflation concerns by indicating that, de...