the main purpose of this study was to investigate of economic impacts of soleimanshah dam on rural development in regions that are under influence of irrigation and drainage network of dam. in this research quantitative-qualitative research method was used and information gathered with questionnaire, interview, and direct observation. statistical population of research in qualitative part consi...

this article analyses spatial political, economic and social contexts of successful of farming and livestock development in the area of Ili river valley (AoIRV). AoIRV is located on Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (XUAR), where is a vital and historical agricultural area in this region. In the Context of ‘Western Development Drive’ of China, central government enhance the support for western r...

Motivated by Feder’s two-sector model concerning exports and growth, this article intends to propose a dynamic framework, which bases on the production function theory and consists of two versions of the two-sector (the financial sector and the real sector) model, for analyzing the interrelation between financial development and economic growth in terms of intersectoral externalities. The appro...

This paper presents new evidence on the existence of pre-industrial growth spurts and the nature of economic growth during the transition from Malthus to Solow. In this research, growth spurts are an intrinsic feature of the economy, but throughout history their effect on standards of living is mostly temporary. Sustained rises in living standards only become sustained when there are complement...

The economic development of a region depends on a number of factors which influence it mainly bases in a macro-economic aspect. Each region has its specific characteristics, thus area-surveyed indicators may not have sufficient predicative potential. In this chapter the authors design two new indicators (Index of Citizens’ Financial Provision and Risk of Regional Economic Development) which ena...

Most decisions must be made without advance knowledge of their consequences. Economists and psychologists have devoted much attention to modeling decisions made under conditions of risk in which options can be characterized by a known probability distribution over possible outcomes. The descriptive shortcomings of classical economic models motivated the development of prospect theory (D. Kahnem...

This paper reviews ways in which cyclical, institutional, and structural determinants of the levels and composition of employment and unemployment can be studied in light of theoretical interactions between shocks and institutions, and of different empirical experiences across advanced economies. It adapts and extends Bertola (2000), offering a non-technical summary of the literature reviewed b...

We reconsider the conventional wisdom that, in the presence of public goods, Nash tax rates are too low. We use a general equilibrium dynamic model of a world economy, in which world-wide environmental quality has public good features. We show that the type of the spillover effect from one country to another (and hence whether we under-tax, or over-tax, in a Nash equilibrium relative to a coord...

Are low levels of schooling infrastructure—in particular, access to secondary schools— and low schooling investment solely the result of failed educational policies, or do they reflect the low school demand that stems from slow economic growth? This paper examines this question by analyzing a large data set in a framework that bases human capital investment on expected returns to schooling. It ...