We show that even in the absence of diminishing returns in production and technological spillovers, international trade leads to a stable world income distribution. This is because specialization and trade introduce de facto diminishing returns: countries that accumulate capital faster than average experience declining export prices, depressing the rate of return to capital and discouraging fur...

The South African government is putting policies, strategies and programmes in place with the intention of establishing an empowering environment for Small Medium-sized Enterprises. To make this a success, thorough understanding factors that might influence their export propensity necessary. aim article was to examine drivers influencing enterprises. A quantitative, descriptive research design ...

Are we making the best use of laboratory computer systems? In this first issue of the 1983 volume of the Journal of Automatic Chemistry we can look back on a very successful first year with our new publisher, Taylor & Francis Ltd. Their experience in scientific publishing has been of considerable value to me and the editorial team. We now have a well-produced, accepted and well-presented produc...

Dr. Jung-Gi Im served for five years as the Editor-inchief. As a member of the Board of Directors of the Korean Radiological Society back in the last decade, Dr. Im devoted himself to giving birth to this English journal. In the editorial of the inaugural issue in 2000, Dr. Im pronounced that his editorial policy was to meet global standards and trends in radiology combined with an EastAsian pe...

We use comparable micro level panel data for 14 countries and a set of identically specified empirical models to investigate the relationship between exports and productivity. Our overall results are in line with the big picture that is by now familiar from the literature: exporters are more productive than non-exporters when observed and unobserved heterogeneity is controlled for, and these ex...

The divergent growth rates of New Zealand regions are a matter of concern to economists, geographers and policy makers. People have been concerned about the 'drift to the north' since at least the 1920s. Geographers have paid particular attention to the role of manufacturing industry in explaining the growing hegemony of Auckland (Taylor and Hosking, 1979), and in generating regional inequaliti...

Abstract This contribution asks whether the most recent innovation of Nordic family policies, so-called father quota, has been an object policy learning in countries that followed example leave policies earlier, such as Germany, Slovenia, and Japan. Our case studies show analyses learning, especially social field, need to take into account specific contexts actor constellations “export” “import...

Investments in the extension of health insurance coverage, the strengthening of public health services, as well as primary care and better hospitals, highlights the emerging role of healthcare as part of China’s new growth regime, based on an expansion of services, and redistributive policies. Such investments, apart from their central role in terms of relief for low-income people, serve to reb...

We examine the intertemporal allocation of the solid waste of cities within the United States to spatially distributed landfills and incinerators, taking into account that capacity at existing and potential landfills is scarce. Amendments have been proposed to restrict waste flows between states by means of quotas and surcharges. We assess the aggregate surplus loss (and its regional distributi...