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The dilemma of natural resource dependency in gulf countries.
Full text linkNatural resources (NR) serve as useful inputs and vital raw materials for domestic industries,
which stimulate and secure sustained economic growth and development. However, the
notion that the richness of NR can be translated into a curse rather than a blessing has long
been an overarching topic of research for both academics and policymakers. The wealth of
NR has noticeable socioeconomic and political impacts that vary among resource-rich
countries. Given the importance of the Gulf Countries and their dependency on income from
NR, the present study thoroughly analyzes the socioeconomic and political aspects of NR
dependency in Kuwait (KWT), the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), and the United Arab
Emirates (UAE).
Firstly, this study examines the economic aspects of NR dependency by taking per capita
GDP (PGDP) and Total Factor Productivity (TFP) as dependent variables. Secondly, this
study examines the political aspects of NR dependency by taking institutional quality as the
dependent variable. Lastly, the present study examines the social aspects of NR dependency
by taking human capital as the dependent variable. This study applies the Autoregressive
Distributed Lag (ARDL) model and co-integration technique by using time-series data from
1984 to 2014. The results indicate that, in the long-run, dependency on NR has a positive
impact on PGDP in the KSA and the UAE, but the relationship is insignificant in KWT.
Then, it is found that NR dependency shows a positive impact on TFP in the KSA and a
negative impact in KWT, while the relationship is insignificant in the UAE. The results reveal
that, in the long-run, institutional quality deteriorates as a result of NR dependency in KWT,
but this relation is insignificant in the KSA and the UAE. The results of co-integration
illustrate that NR dependency dampens human capital in the three countries in the long-run.PhD in Leadership and Managemen
The Impact of Financial Depth and Banking Indicators on Economic Growth in the Gulf Countries: An Analytical Study
No full textRecognition of the main drivers of economic growth of a nation is crucial to implement sound policies and regulations that enable economies to improve and progress. One of the key drivers of any strategy for economic growth is the development of the financial sector. The financial sector and its institutions play a significant role in increasing economic growth by supporting creativity and innovation, accumulating private wealth, directing savings into beneficial investments, offering different opportunities for investors, enhancing productivity, and improving the stability of the economy. The present study identifies the role of financial depth and banking indicators as a development of the financial sector in determining economic growth in the Gulf Countries (GC) from 2000 to 2018. For this purpose, the Generalized method of moments (GMM) approach is used. The results indicate that Bank Credits to the private sector are significantly contributing to the economic growth but the bank cost and deposit money banks\u27 assets hurt economic growth in GC. Since the negative impact of credit to government and state enterprises on growth is revealing the phenomenon of crowding out, it is recommended that the governments in GC should promote credit to the private sector instead of borrowing themselves to remove the crowding-out effect.  
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Dilemma of natural resource abundance: a case study of Kuwait
Full text linkThere is a lively debate about the relationship between a nation’s natural resource abundance and economic growth. Some view natural resource abundance as a curse, whereas others view it as a blessing. This study examines the economic, social, and political effects of resource abundance in an oil-rich country, Kuwait, using data from 1984 to 2014. This study analyzes the short- and long-run impacts of resource rents on per capita gross domestic product (GDP), productivity, human capital, and institutional quality. The study reveals through autoregressive distributed lag modeling and error correction modeling that resource rents increase per capita GDP merely in the short-run; however, resource rents deteriorate productivity, human capital, and institutional quality in both the short and the long-run. These results indicate that, for Kuwait, the overreliance on its natural resources has been detrimental over the long-run. The study suggests that there is a need to improve the quality of institutions and enhance the level of human capital to get economic sustainability and development over time
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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