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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Economic complexity"”.
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Economic Complexity and the Potential for Green Growth in South Africa
… of climate change act as a threat multiplier to economic growth and development. Furthermore, the world economy is shifting away from fossil fuels and resource depletion towards greener technologies and products. South Africa needs to adopt a growth path that accounts for the current climate and …
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Can Investing in Information Systems Boost Economic Complexity in South Africa: Movement Towards the Fourth Industrial Revolution?
… their economies, they need to boost their economic complexity by producing and exporting commodities that embody sophisticated characteristics. The economic complexity index measures how diverse products are and include their ubiquity when they are exported. Economic complexity provides …
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Economic complexity and product space of Visegrad countries : a new perspective on Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia
… thesis, we approach this region using a new macroeconomic theory that provides a framework to evaluate the complexity of economies and their productive structures. After analyzing trade data at a world level we find that V4 countries have complex economic structures. They also demonstrate a high …
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Ceramic traditions and ceramic landscapes of the Indus Civilisation: investigating the technologies and socio-economic complexity of rural pottery production in Bronze Age northwest India.
… The resulting picture suggests that rural social complexity and interactions facilitated the reproduction of a resilient, adaptable, yet mutating system of ceramic traditions. These traditions partially transformed during the Indus Civilisation’s phases of urbanisation and deurbanisation. Rural …
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Ancient Economic Complexity and Adaptation in the Semi-Arid Highlands of Jordan: A Zooarchaeological Study of the Early Bronze Age Through the Ottoman Period at Tell Madaba
… sites, was used to identify the adaptive economic strategies and lifeways at Tell Madaba throughout each occupational phase. The analysis involved assessing the relationship between producers and consumers in addition to the variation in animal production systems visible within the …
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Sustainable and Environmentally Responsible Future for Businesses and Society
… higher education, institutional quality, and economic complexity contribute to sustainable outcomes. Empirically, these aspects were tested in isolation using Environmental Kuznets Curve, normative governance debates or resource curse frameworks. This study integrates them into a cohesive …
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Sustaining Civilizations: An Examination of Pastoral Production in Three Complex Societies
… suggests that in societies with low social and economic complexity that pastoral production will be generalized, with very little focus on any single domestic species or product. In the case of the Mesopotamian State, the tributary economy demands a highly specialized focus on the production of …
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The effects of human capital and private investment in technology on economic structure
It is well known that economic structure is linked to human capital, private investment in technology and income growth. Even though disentangling how this relationship happens is crucial for policy screening, this still needs a better understanding. We shed light on this debate by analyzing …
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Landscapes of Burial? The Homs Basalt, Syria in the 4th-3rd millennia BC
… a significant augmentation of political and economic complexity,concomitant with the rise of states, is pivotal. Despite assumptions regarding the association between these monuments and nomadic groups, preliminary research within the Homs area suggests that such an association is not …
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Pottery Production, Mortuary Practice, and Social Complexity in the Majiayao Culture, NW China (ca. 5300-4000 BP)
… Culture as static and simplify the social and economic complexity of the people who composed this society. Although scholars commonly assume that Majiayao painted pottery vessels were made by specialized craftspeople, the social and economic processes behind the production of these vessels have …