Many economists expect inflation to rise in 1995. These expectations are based on various approaches to forecasting inflation. One approach is based on the standard economic theory that inflation rises when slack is eliminated from the economy and production exceeds capacity constraints. According to this view, measures of economic slack such as unemployment and capacity utilization provide use...

there has been relatively little empirical analysis of the role played by cultural-social-economic policies to promote entrepreneurship. governments, for instance, conduct different entrepreneurship promotion policies. financial assistance and easing of bureaucratic rules are provided to improve the entrepreneurship process in a country. entrepreneurs benefit from education and skills, which ar...

medical tourism is one of the subdirectories of tourism in order to receive health care in other countries. it has become a major industry in the global arena. according to the great potential of this industry in iran, is essential to paying more attention to this branch of tourism, economic effect and also the effect of economic indicators on tourism industry. therefore, this paper examines th...

The objective of this study is to analyze the evolution of some social and economic indicators of Mercosur ́s economies from 1980 to 2012, based on the statistics of the Latin American Integration Association (LAIA). The objective is to observe if after the accession of these economies to Mercosur (the first accessions occurred in 1994) these indicators showed better performance, in order to dem...

This research maps the urban quality of life (QoL) in Alfama, Lisbon (Portugal) through objective and subjective measures. A survey of 69 respondents and locations of social services were gathered signifying the subjective and objective QoL respectively in the physical, economic, and social domain. The relationship between the two measures is examined using correlation analysis. It was determin...

In this paper we are trying to form internally homogeneous groups of Slovenian municipalities on the basis of their socio-economic indicators. Because of the small size of municipalities only a limited number of indicators is available and beside that some of them are conceptually inappropriate. The methodological approach is based on cluster analysis. In the first phase, Ward’s hierarchical pr...

this article has attempted to present a clear image of science production by the member states of the organization of islamic conference (oic) based on the essential science indicators (esi). esi indexes the most effective science productions of the world. the world bank, on the other hand, has classified the countries of the world according to their economic position. using the information acc...

Policies on economic use of natural resources require considerations to social and cultural values. In order to make those concrete in a planning context, this paper aims to interpret social and cultural criteria, identify indicators, match these with verifier variables and visualize them on maps. Indicators were selected from a review of scholarly work and natural resource policies, and then m...