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Assessing Economic Growth Quality
No full textPurpose: The aim of this study is to examine the quality of economic growth according to the stages of its generation and manifestation.
Theoretical framework: The use of quantitative estimation when exploring economic growth can lead to misinterpretation or inaccurate judgments, since the economic reality implies not only quantitative, but also qualitative components. The goal of economic growth, its planning and statement are not an end in themselves, they are aimed to improve the welfare of society. Its implementation implies an improvement in the qualitative facet of economic growth. To date, attempts to assess the quality of economic growth are mostly based on its social outcomes. With such an approach, we miss the formation process of economic growth, focusing only on its effects.
Design/methodology/approach: There are developed special indices for both economic growth generation quality and economic growth effects quality, based on macroeconomic and social indicators that play a significant role in the relevant process. These together, as subindices, form an economic growth quality index. The latter is calculated for 76 countries during 2005-2020. The following techniques and indicators are used in the process of the index calculation - normalization, percentiling, optimal lag length selection informational criteria, cointegration tests.
Findings: The research empirically confirms that the economic growth quality in the world manifests itself more steadily than it is being formed. Between the leaders and the countries in the last positions in index rankings, the drastic difference mainly lies in their productivity, expenditures on education and lending to the private sector through domestic credit.
Research, Practical & Social implications: The nature of the proposed economic growth assessment can serve as a baseline for further research studies in this context. On the other hand, the findings of this study can be used to analize the drivers and barriers to growth in each of the observed country.
Originality/value: The approach according to which the economic growth quality index is constructed gives an opportunity to observe economic growth not as a static indicator but as a breathing organism, describing the development process with detailed growth causes and consequences
Problems in the development of youth entrepreneurship in the Republic of Armenia
Get PDFPurpose. The study is based on the premise that the development of youth entrepreneurship is a significant factor in the economic development of society and in increasing employment, living standards and economic independence of young people.
The purpose of this study is to assess the degree of favourableness of the business environment for the development of youth entrepreneurship in the Republic of Armenia in comparison with other Eastern Partnership countries, identifying barriers and difficulties that Armenian youth face in translating creative ideas into real business.
Methodology. In order to achieve the goal set in the article and to accomplish the objectives of the study, the methods of quantitative research, analytical diagnostics, content observation, statistical analysis, grouping, questioning and interpretation of results were used. The form developed for the survey of young people (aged 13-35) includes questions which characterize the respondents’ profile, as well as groups of factors which influence the implementation of entrepreneurial activities.
Findings. In the process of the study, conclusions were made on the presence of a number of factors that restrain and limit the development of the business environment in Armenia. The main barriers hindering the opening of a new business are considered by Armenian youth to be the following: the absence (limitation) of start-up capital; lack of courage to take the first step; lack of knowledge and lack of experience; lack of a business idea and business plan. Additional factors constraining youth entrepreneurship in Armenia are as follows: lack of connections, lack of development or lack of a material and technical base, lack of awareness or inefficiency of business support programmes.
Value. The article identifies problems, the elimination of which will improve the environment in order to stimulate young people to start their own businesses. It also identifies barriers to the development of youth entrepreneurship.
The results obtained in the study can form the basis for the development of youth policy in Armenia.
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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