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...

In a developing country like India, Small Scale Entrepreneurship plays a significant role in economic development of the country. These industries, by and large represent a stage in economic transition from traditional to modern technology after globalization. The variation in transitional nature of this process is reflected in the diversity of these industries. Most of the small scale industri...

In production economies with unequal labor skills, we study axiomatic characterizations of Pareto subsolutions which are implementable by sharing mechanisms in Nash, strong Nash, and subgame perfect equilibria. The sharing mechanism allows agents to work freely and distributes the produced output to the agents, according to the profile of labor hours and the information on demands, prices, and ...

A recovery orientation during brief psychiatric hospitalization focuses on improving adjustment and functioning and reducing future psychiatric crises and hospitalizations. Crisis rehabilitative skills training imparts knowledge, understanding, and abilities during a critical period of restabilization. After describing a rehabilitation oriented skills training program that occurs during brief i...

1 The threat of automation implies a race between education and technology.1 In most developing countries, education systems are not providing workers with the skills necessary to compete in today’s job markets. The growing mismatch between the demand and supply of skills holds back economic growth and undermines opportunity. At the same time, the returns to schooling are high in most developin...

When we talk about “potential learners,” it is unhelpful to dissociate them from their environment, more so because the economic well-being of the respective countries in which they live vary. Also, existing national educational provision and economic and social services are essential contributory factors worthy of consideration. More relevant, perhaps, is that the dictates of the national job ...

While the greening of economies presents challenges, it also offers considerable potential for job creation, a matter of urgency in countries struggling to recover from the global economic crisis and to address longer-term employment concerns. The development of skills for green jobs is crucial to ensuring an efficient transition to a green economy by matching supply and demand for skills. It i...