Russia at the Crossroads: Two Roads to Global Economic Competitiveness

2006 ◽  
pp. 46-64
Author(s):  
T. Soubbotina
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Economy ◽  
Global Market ◽  
National Strategy ◽  
Economic Competitiveness ◽  
The Past ◽  
Russian Economy ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
National Economic ◽  
The World ◽  
Post Industrial

Relying on a wide range of foreign sources, the author presents the concept of "high" and "low" roads to national economic competitiveness and argues that, over the past fifteen years, the Russian economy has been gradually slipping down toward the "low road" and "immiserising economic growth". Russia is in urgent need of a visionary national strategy of integration into global market economy that would take into account the world-wide dominance of post-industrial "knowledge economy". Current government economic policy should focus on creating enabling conditions for Russian companies to learn to compete with the leading trans-national corporations on their own terms, i.e. mostly by enhancing their products’ and services’ innovativeness and attractiveness for the most demanding global consumers rather than by minimizing costs and prices.

Sites of Girlhood

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 114-127
Author(s):  
Tiffany Rhoades Isselhardt
Keyword(s):  
Advisory Board ◽  
Virtual Space ◽  
Virtual Museum ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
The Past ◽  
Girl Culture ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The World ◽  
Bear Witness

Where are the girls who made history? What evidence have they left behind? Are there places and spaces that bear witness to their memory? Girl Museum was founded in 2009 to address these questions, among many others. Established by art historian Ashley E. Remer, whose work revealed that most, if not all, museums never explicitly discuss or center girls and girlhood, Girl Museum was envisioned as a virtual space dedicated to researching, analyzing, and interpreting girl culture across time and space. Over its first ten years, we produced a wide range of art in historical and cultural exhibitions that explored conceptions of girlhood and the direct experiences of girls in the past and present. Led by an Advisory Board of scholars and entirely reliant on volunteers and donations, we grew from a small website into a complex virtual museum of exhibitions, projects, and programs that welcomes an average 50,000 visitors per year from around the world.

Visualizing ICT Change in the Academy

2008 ◽  
pp. 3695-3715
Author(s):  
Gale Parchoma
Keyword(s):  
Complexity Theory ◽  
Knowledge Economy ◽  
Distributed Learning ◽  
Learning Opportunities ◽  
Mediated Learning ◽  
Global Learning ◽  
Learning Networks ◽  
Strategic Adaptation ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The World

This chapter introduces complexity theory as a theoretical framework for analyzing the influences of information and computer technologies (ICTs) on the structures, cultures, economies (reward systems), and pedagogical praxes within the Academy. An argument is made that the strategic adaptation of the academy’s structures, cultures, economies, and pedagogical praxes to the knowledge economy can help build a future where Academy-based distributed learning networks will transmit ICT-mediated learning opportunities around the world, thus providing flexible access for a wide range of learners to fully participate in the global learning society. The author posits attunements to policies and practices to support institution-wide involvement in ICT initiatives.

Agricultural Aviation

1960 ◽  
Vol 64 (590) ◽  
pp. 87-92
Author(s):  
A. H. Wheeler
Keyword(s):  
Second World War ◽  
Chemical Forms ◽  
World War ◽  
The Past ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Agricultural Chemistry ◽  
The World ◽  
General Improvement ◽  
Main Factors ◽  
Second World

The first International Agricultural Aviation Conference, held at the College of Aeronautics at Cranfield between the 15th and 18th of September 1959, was well timed to mark one stage in the development of the art of airborne farming—it was the stage when the art ceased to be mainly experimental and became essentially a commercial business.Intermittently for the past thirty years, in various parts of the world, attempts have been made with varying degrees of economic and practical success to do certain operations connected with farming, forestry or other allied activities. Two main factors within the past decade have served to intensify the interest and activity in the art. One important factor is the general improvement in aircraft, including helicopters, coupled with the very large number of relatively suitable ones which became redundant (and therefore cheap) at the end of the Second World War. The other factor, equal in importance, concerns the development of the science of agricultural chemistry which has given the farmer a new and wide range of fertilisers, selective weed killers and other chemical forms of pest control which are effective in reasonably small bulk.

Visualizing ICT Change in the Academy

2007 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
G. Parchoma
Keyword(s):  
Complexity Theory ◽  
Knowledge Economy ◽  
Distributed Learning ◽  
Learning Opportunities ◽  
Mediated Learning ◽  
Global Learning ◽  
Learning Networks ◽  
Strategic Adaptation ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The World

This chapter introduces complexity theory as a theoretical framework for analyzing the influences of information and computer technologies (ICTs) on the structures, cultures, economies (reward systems), and pedagogical praxes within the Academy. An argument is made that the strategic adaptation of the academy’s structures, cultures, economies, and pedagogical praxes to the knowledge economy can help build a future where Academy-based distributed learning networks will transmit ICT-mediated learning opportunities around the world, thus providing flexible access for a wide range of learners to fully participate in the global learning society. The author posits attunements to policies and practices to support institution-wide involvement in ICT initiatives.

scholarly journals Comparative Advantages of Jute Export in Bangladesh, China and India

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 183-190
Author(s):  
Shaima Chowdhury Sharna ◽  
M Kamruzzaman
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Advantage ◽  
Global Market ◽  
Revealed Comparative Advantage ◽  
New Markets ◽  
China And India ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
Comparative Advantages

The aim of this study was to review the trend of production and export of jute as well as comparative advantages of jute export of Bangladesh, China and India. In the case of production, India is the leading country which is followed by Bangladesh, China, Nepal, Zimbabwe, Uzbekistan, Egypt and others. However, Bangladesh plays the supreme role over other countries in the world for exporting jute. Jute export fluctuated erratically over the past four decades in these three most jute exporting countries. The Revealed Comparative Advantage (RCA) has been enumerated for comparing the jute export advantages in the global market. Bangladesh always enjoys greater comparative advantages than China and India although the revealed comparative advantages are less in recent years than those were one decade ago. But it can’t catch the high-value market because exporters have mainly focused on raw jute while jute goods have high potentiality. The recommended issues urge to enhance the productivity of jute cultivation, inaugurate more diversified products, and explore new markets for exports. Res. Agric., Livest. Fish.7(2): 183-190,  August 2020

Enforcement efforts and partnership with industry: A needed strategy addressing counterfeit drugs

1969 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas T Kubic
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Drug Supply ◽  
Counterfeit Drugs ◽  
The Past ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The World

Despite some law enforcement successes, organizations engaged in counterfeiting continued manufacturing, distributing and selling a wide range of unsafe medicines during the past year. This article will identify some of these successes that were made possible due to a public–private partnerships, as well as some of the challenges facing patients around the world. It also outlines the activities of the Pharmaceutical Security Institute, which engages through member companies and independently in public–private efforts to combat the problem of counterfeit drugs. These efforts may serve as models for innovative public–private partnerships that may be effective in coordinated, global efforts to protect the safety of the drug supply.

Multinational Business and National Economic Goals

1971 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 693-705 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raymond Vernon
Keyword(s):  
World Economy ◽  
International Communication ◽  
Social Goals ◽  
Business Activity ◽  
The Past ◽  
National Economic ◽  
The World ◽  
Business Enterprises ◽  
National Boundaries ◽  
National Economies

This essay elaborates several basic propositions. First, the extraordinary changes in international communication and international transportation during the past 40 or 50 years have profoundly altered the horizons of business decisionmakers, giving enormous stimulus to the creation of multinational business enterprises. Second, in narrow economic terms the multinationalization of business activity has added to the efficiency of the world economy. Third, the advances in transportation and communication, reinforced by the existence of multinational business enterprises, have stimulated interaction between national economies and reduced the effectiveness of national controls, particularly in advanced countries. Finally, despite the increasing porosity of national boundaries these countries have been expanding and refining their national economic and social goals in ways that require more controls at national borders or more joint controls between cooperating states.

scholarly journals RESTARTING NATIONAL PROJECTS AS A CONDITION FOR ECONOMIC GROWTH

2020 ◽  
Vol 225 (5) ◽  
pp. 49-64
Author(s):  
AGANBEGYAN ABEL G. ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Human Capital ◽  
Knowledge Economy ◽  
Technological Breakthrough ◽  
Economic Plan ◽  
Russian Economy ◽  
National Economic ◽  
Key Sectors ◽  
National Economic Plan ◽  
The Russian Federation

The article describes two priority lines for action to restart national projects. First, it is necessary to move to the five-year national economic plan as a system of national projects. Second, we need new national projects, because the existing 13 projects do not cover some tasks formulated in the decrees of the President of the Russian Federation V.V. Putin. We are talking about such tasks as increasing the real incomes of Russians and overcoming poverty, about ensuring a technological breakthrough. The author notes that we need a system of national projects, focusing on key sectors of the Russian economy, primarily in mechanical engineering. We also need new national projects to ncrease investments in the fixed capital and human capital (in the "knowledge economy"). Moreover, it is necessary to adjust the content and system of measures for some existing national projects.

scholarly journals Research and Overview of Beyond Meat's Disruptive Innovation

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 73
Author(s):  
Deming Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Primary Source ◽  
Market Value ◽  
Disruptive Innovation ◽  
Global Market ◽  
High Price ◽  
Processed Meat ◽  
Official Report ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
Meat Market

In the past, meat is considered to be a luxury because of its high price that not everyone can afford, which only enjoyed on special days or festivals. However, it has become a daily necessity for life nowadays with the rapid economic development, an essential ingredient in every staple in the restaurant or home kitchen, and the main source supply for people to increase energy. Besides, as health education launched, "how to eat healthily" has become the most significant difficulty that needs to be solved for every family. There is no doubt that the market has been increasing and the demand for meat has been growing with the population growth all over the world. The market value of processed meat is expected to rise from 714 billion U.S. dollars in 2016 to over 1.5 trillion dollars by 2022. Poultry is the most popular kind of processed meat, with a 38 percent share of the global market and red meat, which includes pork and beef, takes up about a 33 percent share. From the official report of the worldwide meat market, the quality and the inflated price of meat have become the most concern of the majority people, who deem it as the primary source of protein and nutrition supply. 

scholarly journals International trade in services: The role of international shipping

2007 ◽  
Vol 59 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 376-399
Author(s):  
Ivana Popovic-Petrovic
Keyword(s):  
International Trade ◽  
Trade In Services ◽  
National Interests ◽  
Transportation Services ◽  
The Past ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The World ◽  
Increasing Demand ◽  
Merchandise Trade

The General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) is one of the World Trade Organization's most important agreements. This accord is the first and only set of multilateral rules covering international trade in services. It is a framework for international trade in services and a legal basis for resolving conflicting national interests. For the past two decades, trade in services has grown faster than merchandise trade. Currently, they represent more than two thirds of the World Gross Domestic Product. As the term services covers a wide range of intangible and heterogeneous products and activities, there has been an increasing demand for detailed, relevant and internationally comparable statistical information on trade in services. In the last ten years, the share of transportation services in international trade in commercial services was steady and amounted to about one quarter.

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