“YOUTH BULGES” IN EUROPE AND ASIA: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE AND ECONOMIC FACTORS OF RISK ACTIVATION

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (6) ◽  
pp. 214-224
Author(s):  
Yu. V ZIN’KINA ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Population Structure ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Political Stability ◽  
Economic Factors ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Political Demography ◽  
Economic Nature

The article considers the phenomenon of “youth bulges” - the appearance in the population structure of numerous youth cohorts. The connection between the emergence of a “youth bulges” in society and the risks of political destabilization, which attracted the attention of a number of experts in the field of political demography, is analyzed and confirmed by examples from countries of two regions - Europe and Asia, where, unlike Europe, the influence of the phenomenon of “youth bulges” on political stability was not previously considered systematically. A significant layer of scientific literature has been analyzed and systematized, considering economic factors that increase the risk of political destabilization against the backdrop of a “youth bulges”; the key factors of an economic nature and their relationship with each other are highlighted.

scholarly journals Public spending efficiency and political and economic factors: Evidence from selected East Asian countries

2012 ◽  
Vol 57 (193) ◽  
pp. 7-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sok-Gee Chan ◽  
Mohd Karim
Keyword(s):  
East Asian ◽  
Civil Liberties ◽  
Public Spending ◽  
Political Stability ◽  
Economic Factors ◽  
Asian Countries ◽  
Tobit Regression ◽  
Parametric Data ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Equal Income

This paper analyses public spending efficiency and the effect of political and economic factors on public spending efficiency in East Asian countries for the period 2000-2007. In the first stage, the non-parametric Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) approach is used to estimate public spending efficiency scores. In the second stage, the Tobit regression model is then used to determine the effect of political and economic factors on public spending efficiency. Results of the study show that China is relatively efficient in public spending on education, health, and maintaining economic performance and stability, Japan on infrastructure, and Singapore on promoting public services. In addition, countries in East Asia are relatively less efficient in public spending for promoting equal income distribution. The results also indicate that political stability and financial freedom have a positive effect on public spending efficiency. However, voice, accountability, and civil liberties have a negative effect on public spending efficiency.

scholarly journals Review of Existing Knowledge and Practices of Tarping for the Control of Invasive Knotweeds

Plants ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. 2152
Author(s):  
Marie-Anne Dusz ◽  
François-Marie Martin ◽  
Fanny Dommanget ◽  
Anne Petit ◽  
Caroline Dechaume-Moncharmont ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Control Method ◽  
Exotic Plant ◽  
International Survey ◽  
Management Issue ◽  
Physical Barrier ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Exotic Plant Species ◽  
Invasive Exotic ◽  
Practical Recommendations

Managing invasive exotic plant species is a complex challenge, especially for Asian knotweeds (Reynoutria spp.). Tarping is a regularly cited but poorly documented control method, which consists of covering the ground with a tarp (agricultural tarp, geotextile, geomembrane, etc.) to create a physical barrier to hinder plant growth and deprive the plants of light in order to deplete their rhizomatous reserves. To improve our knowledge of tarping in order to identify the key factors of its success or failure, we reviewed the relevant grey and scientific literature and conducted an international survey among managers to collect feedback on tarping experiments. In the literature, as well as in the field, practices are quite heterogeneous, and the method’s effectiveness is highly contrasted. A better consideration of knotweed biology may improve the efficacy of the method. Based on the bibliography and survey work, we propose practical recommendations including covering the entire stand, extending the tarping up to 2.5 m beyond its edges for a period of at least six years, and ensuring regular monitoring. Even though tarping does not seem to be a one-size-fits-all solution to eradicate knotweed, it could still be a useful control method once knotweed has become a critical management issue.

scholarly journals ANALYSIS OF INSTITUTIONAL FACTORS OF SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC PROTECTION OF INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES IN UKRAINE

2017 ◽  
pp. 233-238
Author(s):  
Genrikh Kazarian
Keyword(s):  
Social Protection ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
External Environment ◽  
Institutional Factors ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Individuals With Disabilities ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
Work Activities ◽  
Low Level ◽  
Institutional Aspects

In the article is identified a set of organizational and institutional aspects that affect the level of socio-economic provision of persons with disabilities, it has been established that work activities are one of the key factors in the socio-economic provision of persons with disabilities. The monitoring of institutional factors of social and economic provision of persons with disabilities has shown that the main reasons for the low level of provision of persons with disabilities are the lack of necessary material incentives, guarantees of social protection, non-compliance of the external environment with the labor needs of persons with disabilities (lack of technical means of rehabilitation and transport, orthoses and dentures, modernized furniture, equipment, household items, means of work, educational, scientific literature and media).

scholarly journals Toward a Broader Understanding: A Formal Concept Analysis of the Micropolitics of a School

2018 ◽  
Vol 40 ◽  
pp. 127-141
Author(s):  
Aida Kairienė
Keyword(s):  
Learning Organization ◽  
School Environment ◽  
Formal Concept Analysis ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Concept Analysis ◽  
Formal Concept ◽  
Careful Study ◽  
Key Factors

[full article in English] The micropolitics of a school is one of the key factors that determine changes in member interactions in a learning organization and requires a careful study in order to create a favorable school environment. The aim of this study is to analyze the concept of the micropolitics of a school, highlighting the essential attributes of the concept. The research method – Formal Concept Analysis (FCA) – was used to identify the implicit relationships between objects described through a set of the attributes. The analysis of scientific literature reveals 6 sets of objects: micropolitics as a dimension of leadership; micropolitics as a part of macropolitics; micropolitics as a teacher’s life and actions; micropolitics as interactions within an organization; micropolitics as the daily life of an organization; micropolitics as the darker side of institutional life.

Determinants of Terrorism in South Asia

2020 ◽  
pp. 1598-1617
Author(s):  
Ramesh Chandra Das ◽  
Sovik Mukherjee
Keyword(s):  
Youth Unemployment ◽  
Political Stability ◽  
Economic Factors ◽  
Education Expenditure ◽  
Per Capita Gdp ◽  
Panel Models ◽  
The World ◽  
Per Capita ◽  
Dynamic Panel Models ◽  
Socio Economic Factors

Terrorist activities in the post-Paris Peace Treaties have emerged as one of the most perilous agendas that are troubling the world economies and political figures in securing their nations and regions. Several socio-economic factors were evidenced to be the crucial factors in determining terrorist activities all around the world. The present article strives to identify the significance of several socio economic factors, namely, refugee population, access to good sanitation facilities, youth unemployment rate, percentage of education expenditure to GDP, percentage of military expenditure to GDP, per capita GDP and political stability in the panel of seven South Asian countries and China for the period 2002-2016. By applying both static and dynamic panel models, the article observes that all of the selected variables explain the terrorism index with expected signs. The article thus prescribes that the governments of the selected countries should concentrate on allocating their budgets on the improvements of sectors underlying the associated indicators.

Consumers' Potentials to Adopt a Healthy Eating Lifestyle

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Efthimia Tsakiridou ◽  
Elisavet Tsiamparli ◽  
Konstadinos Mattas
Keyword(s):  
Eating Behavior ◽  
Healthy Eating ◽  
Rasch Model ◽  
Economic Factors ◽  
Eating Patterns ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Eating Style ◽  
Healthy Eating Behavior ◽  
The Rasch Model ◽  
Socio Economic Factors

Unambiguously, nowadays healthy eating patterns have attracted the interest of researchers, society and media. Mainly four key widespread messages “eat less fat”, “eat less sugar”, “eat less salt” and “eat more fibre”, are among those widely perceived as healthy eating behavior. All those messages could support a healthy eating lifestyle, and consequently, avoid several chronic diseases and health problems. This research aimed to examine consumers' attitudes towards healthy eating, their difficulty to adopt a permanent healthy eating style and to assess which items consumers find more or less difficult to follow. The Rasch model was applied to assess the obstacles consumers are facing to adopt and follow healthy eating patterns and to relate them with a range of attitudinal and socio-economic factors faced by individuals. Results highlight significant differences among consumers in adopting healthy eating patterns, depending on the level of several key factors (gender, age and education).

scholarly journals The Practice Structured on the Discourse: Repertoires and Dominant Discourses in Brazilian Scientific Literature on Agrochemicals

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 109
Author(s):  
Larissa Hery Ito Ribeiro Homem ◽  
Michelle Bonatti ◽  
Luiz Renato D´Agostini ◽  
Marcos Lana ◽  
Stefan Sieber
Keyword(s):  
Food Production ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Scientific Production ◽  
Discursive Practices ◽  
Integrated Pest Control ◽  
High Level ◽  
Chemical Pesticides ◽  
Technical Area

<p>The present work aims to clarify the discursive practices of Brazilian scientific literature on chemical pesticides in order to understand, from a historical perspective, which repertoires are available to give meaning to the use of pesticides in Brazil. It further draws a picture of the positions taken in the technical area, from the creation of the “Agrochemicals Law” in 1989 until the present day. A total of 78 articles from ten journals were reviewed using the analysis of the discourses method as well as an overview of the database according to years, authors, and titles. The results show that scientific production is concentered in the south and southeast Brazilian institutions where the authors mostly come from. Their articles analyze presented repertoires that were categorized into three types: "required use of pesticides", "use of pesticides integrated with biological control”, and "no use of pesticides". The results suggest that there is no consensus in the discursive practices of Brazilian scientific literature on agrochemicals. It was concluded that there is in literature the suggestion that integrated pest control could improve the quality of production and lessen impacts on health and the environment. The dominant discourse is still linked to the paradigm that in order to have a high level of food production it is still necessary to use pesticides.</p>

scholarly journals Social and Economic Factors of Sports Activity in Russian Regions

2019 ◽  
Vol 71 ◽  
pp. 04009
Author(s):  
T.V. Kramin ◽  
M.R. Miftahov ◽  
W. Andreff ◽  
S.B. Eroshkina
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Factors ◽  
Physical Culture ◽  
Economic Factors ◽  
Sports Facilities ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Russian Regions ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Sports Activity ◽  
Per Capita ◽  
The One

In this study, the key factors of sports activity in the Russian regions were identified and substantiated. The regional panel data for the period 2007–2017 was used as data for the study. It is shown that traditional material factors are highly significant in models for assessing the level of sports activity in the Russian regions. These include, in particular, the following indicators: the one-time carrying capacity of sports facilities, the per capita expenditures for physical culture and sports development, the number of sports facilities per 100 thousand people, the number of full-time physical culture and sports personnel per capita. Consequently, forecasting based on them will give a stable and reliable result. Along with the evidence of the significance of the material factors of sports activity, a justification of the influence of a number of intangible, institutional factors is given. Such factors include the awareness about the benefits of systematic physical education and sports, institutions of public encouragement and support for those involved in sports and physical culture, etc.

Corruption, Political Stability and Development: Comparative Evidence from Egypt and Morocco

1976 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 426-445 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Waterbury
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Developing Economies ◽  
Good Deal ◽  
Political Stability ◽  
The State ◽  
Economic Factors ◽  
Absolute Sense ◽  
Standards Of Living ◽  
High Standards ◽  
Systemic Corruption

WHILE IT IS VERY DIFFICULT TO MEASURE QUANTITATIVELY THE extent of corruption in any polity, it may well be that in an absolute sense it is more prevalent (although not necessarily more conspicuous) in ‘developing’ economies and polities, than in societies with relatively high standards of living. This, if it is so, results from a concatenation of politico-economic factors which fosters the spread of corrupt practices in virtually all dealings between the citizenry and the state. In what follows, we shall consider three forms of corruption – endemic, planned, and developmental – which, while analytically distinct, are not necessarily so legally or operationally. In everyday life they form a whole which will now be pulled apart. However, taken together these three forms may literally add up to ‘systemic’ corruption. This means simply that as a proportion of the total resources and talents available to an economy, those tied up in corruption are particularly high and alternatives in achieving individual or collective ends particularly few. These propositions must remain tentative, and instinct as much as hard measurement has informed them. Further, the trifold categorization of corruption used here is largely descriptive, and it is not my intention to undertake an exhaustive examination of causes nor to suggest remedies. However, a good deal will be said about effects.

Economic Forces and Hospital Technology

1987 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 241-251 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin J. Buxton
Keyword(s):  
Hospital Setting ◽  
Organizational Factors ◽  
The United States ◽  
Economic Factors ◽  
Limited Evidence ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
Economic Forces ◽  
Economic Nature ◽  
Cross National

AbstractThe paper considers the economic characteristics of technology and suggests a categorization based on the economic nature of particular technologies and their effect on the product health care that may be helpful in considering the economics of technology in hospitals.It reviews the range of economic forces that might be expected to apply to the use of technology in the hospital setting, and notes some of the evidence to support such hypotheses. In considering the limited evidence from the United Kingdom and elsewhere in Europe, the paper contrasts its focus on socio-political, institutional, and organizational factors, rather than the direct economic factors considered in the United States work.It suggests that the multiplicity of forces at work make cross-national, empirical, and policy analyses very difficult. Indeed, without more economic appraisal the effect of differences in technology adoption cannot be evaluated.

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