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An emerging growth industry in a pivotal region Across much of the world, the media sector is facing unprecedented challenges. Newspaper readership is on the decline. Advertising revenues and consumer spending have been hit hard by the recession. The Internet is seen as a threat by the traditional media. But one region stands out in contrast—the [...] . . . → Read More: Middle East Media on the Move A.T. Kearney The Foreign Direct Investment Confidence Index is a regular survey of global executives conducted by A.T. Kearney. The Index provides a unique look at the present and future prospects for international investment flows. Companies participating in the survey account for more than $3.8 trillion in annual global revenue. Continue reading Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) Confidence Index Using payment systems to combat the shadow economy At almost $3 trillion, the shadow economy — that blurry area of commerce that includes legal activity hidden deliberately from public authorities — makes up a sizeable portion of economic activity in Europe. This study, performed for VISA Europe, examines the structure of the shadow economy and ways to reduce it. In many industries, the answer is the introduction of electronic payment systems. Continue reading The Shadow Economy in Europe The Social Sciences Citation Index in Web of Science is a carefully selected and evaluated collection delivers to users the most influential scientific research information from the 20th century. With the addition of Century of Social SciencesTM, SSCI delivers comprehensive backfile and cited reference data from 1900 to 2009. The world itself changed dramatically during the first half of the 20th century, and the published research during this period of time is reflective of these great changes. The ability to search an entire century of information in one place, across 55 disciplines of the social sciences, is simply invaluable resource for academic study at all levels. Continue reading The Social Sciences Citation Index Arno Tausch This article reflects the renewed interest of economics and the social science discipline in value systems and religion. The World Values Survey provided a data framework of global value change, whose quantitative results led Barro (2004) to analyze the connections between some dimensions of recent sociological religious value research with economic growth. The present essay starts from this methodological position, and links value systems with economic performance in a much wider and macrosociological framework. We further develop the well-known Inglehart and Welzel (2003) map of global values, and develop the idea of “Asabiyya” (“social cohesion”), as a counter-model to both Barro and Inglehart and Welzel approaches. A frequently asked question is whether “modernization” without “spiritual values” in a globalized world economy and world society possible in the long run? Starting from principal component analysis, it is shown that rather two factors are decisive in understanding global value change: a continuum of “traditional versus secular”, and a continuum “cheating versus active society”. Asabiyya in the 21st Century, as a way out from the modernization trap of societies, characterized by large-scale social anomaly, is a high secularism combined with a high active society score, thus avoiding the “modernization trap”. Continue reading Asabiyya: Re-Interpreting Value Change in Globalized Societies … Perhaps the most vital component of Iran’s race for regional supremacy is the regime’s fast-developing nuclear weapons program, which has continued despite international diplomatic and economic antagonism. Unfortunately, the publication in November 2007 of the U.S. National Intelligence Estimate sent a misleading and even contradictory The Tragedy of the Middle East THE FORMATION AND FUNCTION OF THE SUNNI HADITH CANON By: James Petras |
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