The value of IT to firms in a developing country in the catch-up process: An empirical comparison of China and the United States

2007 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 737-745 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhaoli Meng ◽  
Sang-Yong Tom Lee
2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emma Zang

This study is the first to systematically examine the educational differentials in fertility levels and timing across four 5-year cohorts among Generation Xers in the United States. Little attention has been paid to the relationship between U.S. women’s educational attainments and fertility behaviors among those born after 1960 by previous studies. Results reveal that the cohort Total Fertility Rate among college graduates is lower than those of the less educated. However, there is evidence of an emerging trend: an increasing proportion of college-educated women with two children have transitioned to a third. Although college-educated women postpone first births, they tend to ‘catch up’ by spacing higher-order births closer to first births compared to the less-educated.


1990 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 35-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joyce Appleby

The “tions” came to the United States in the closing decades of the nineteenth century: industrialization, urbanization, immigration, centralization, and bureaucratization. As befits such an impersonal suffix, these developments have been analyzed as parts of a systematic reorganization of society. Processes, not persons, have figured as the sources of motivation in the story of America's transformation from a rural society of loosely connected communities to an industrial nation integrated by corporations, communications, and the regulations of a government trying to catch up with the pace of change.


1964 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-19
Author(s):  
E. Allan Farnsworth

The Republic of Senegal has embarked upon a project to reform its private law. This fact, of itself, might not seem worthy of the attention of the legal profession in the United States, since Senegal is a country of only about 3,250,000 inhabitants, less than the population of the state of Alabama, covering only 76,000 square miles, less than the area of the state of Kansas, and having a total of exports and imports to the dollar zone of less than twelve million dollars in 1962. With twenty per cent of its population in its six largest cities of more than 30,000 inhabitants, it is the most urban, most literate, and most Europeanized of the francophonic countries of sub-Saharan Africa, but this alone would evoke little interest abroad in its attempts at law reform.


Author(s):  
Deepak Nayyar

This chapter analyses the striking changes in the geographical distribution of manufacturing production amongst countries and across continents since 1750, a period that spans more than two-and-a-half centuries, which could be described as the movement of industrial hubs in the world economy over time. Until around 1820, world manufacturing production was concentrated in China and India. The Industrial Revolution, followed by the advent of colonialism, led to deindustrialization in Asia and, by 1880, Britain became the world industrial hub that extended to northwestern Europe. The United States surpassed Britain in 1900, and was the dominant industrial hub in the world until 2000. During 1950 to 2000, the relative, though not absolute, importance of Western Europe diminished, and Japan emerged as a significant industrial hub, while the other new industrial hub, the USSR and Eastern Europe, was short lived. The early twenty-first century, 2000–2017, witnessed a rapid decline of the United States, Western Europe, and Japan as industrial hubs, to be replaced largely by Asia, particularly China. This process of shifting hubs, associated with industrialization in some countries and deindustrialization in other countries in the past, might be associated with premature deindustrialization in yet other countries in the future.


2019 ◽  
Vol IV (I) ◽  
pp. 376-383
Author(s):  
Fahmeed Idrees ◽  
Hamid Hassan

This paper explores the emerging trend of entrepreneurship and social entrepreneurship globally as well as in Pakistan. It discusses, how entrepreneurship playsa central role in economic progression for developed countries like the United States and how it has the potential to play a pivotal role in the case of a developing country like Pakistan. According to various studies, Pakistan with the 175 million population is the 6th most populated county globally, having 60 percent of its population under the age of 25 years. A well trained, educated and entrepreneurial oriented population can be an asset for a developing economy. Literature has reviewed, discussed and pointed out main issues, difficulties, and opportunities about entrepreneurship in Pakistan; presents a working model of entrepreneurship that can foster entrepreneurship. Therefore, a conceptual framework is developed which further can be tested empirically. This study presents entrepreneurship as a way forward for the national development of Pakistan.


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