According to Vahram Nercissiantz, President Serzh Sargsyan's chief economic adviser, " Businessmen holding state positions have turned into oligarchs who have avoided paying sufficient taxes by abusing their state positions, distorted markets with unequal conditions, breached the rules of competition, impeded or prevented small and medium-sized business ’ entry into manufacturing and thereby sharply deepened social polarization in the republic.

According to one analyst, Armenia's economic system is anticompetitive due to the structure of the economy being a type of " monopoly or oligopoly ".

According to research funded by the USAID CAPS project, Armenia's exceptionally high rate of economic growth during the last decade has been largely dependent on external factors ( e. g., remittances, assistance from international financial and donor organization ).

According to research commissioned by the Yerevan office of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe ( OSCE ), at least one in three working-age Armenians was unemployed as of February 2005 despite several consecutive years of double-digit economic growth.

According to the Fraser Institute, Alberta has very high levels of economic freedom and rates Alberta as the most free economy in Canada, and second most free economy amongst U. S. states and Canadian provinces.

Likewise, Joseph E. Stiglitz, speaking not only on China but East Asia in general, comments " The countries that have managed globalization ... such as those in East Asia, have, by and large, ensured that they reaped huge benefits ..." According to The Heritage Foundation, development in China was anticipated by Milton Friedman, who predicted that even a small progress towards economic liberalization would produce dramatic and positive effects.

According to the Center for Economic and Policy Research ( CEPR ), the period from 1980 – 2005 has seen diminished progress in terms of economic growth, life expectancy, infant and child mortality, and to a lesser extent education.

According to the CIA World Factbook, during the early 1990s, Chile's " reputation as a role model for economic reform " was strengthened when the democratic government of Patricio Aylwin, who took over from the military in 1990, deepened the economic reform initiated by the military government.

According to the CIA World Factbook, Chile's " sound economic policies ," maintained consistently since the 1980s, " have contributed to steady economic growth in Chile and have more than halved poverty rates.

According to this viewpoint, citizens are sovereign, morally autonomous beings with duties to pay taxes, obey the law, engage in business transactions, and defend the nation if it comes under attack, but are essentially passive politically, and their primary focus is on economic betterment.

According to Chomsky, the media and public relations industry actively shape public opinion, working to present messages in line with their economic agenda for the purposes of controlling of the ' public mind '.

According to economic theory, a " factor of production " is used to create value and allow economic performance.

According to economist John Quiggin, the standard features of " economic fundamentalist rhetoric " are " dogmatic " assertions and the claim that anyone who holds contrary views is not a real economist.

According to the BBC, pyramid schemes " were only real economic initiative of the Aristide years.

According to the Sino-British Joint Declaration ( 1984 ) and the Basic Law, Hong Kong will retain its political, economic, and judicial systems and unique way of life and continue to participate in international agreements and organisations as a dependent territory for at least 50 years after retrocession.

According to the theory, government spending can be used to increase aggregate demand, thus increasing economic activity, reducing unemployment and deflation.

According to Encyclopædia Britannica, " Although there was a clear Muslim majority in Kashmir before the 1947 partition and its economic, cultural, and geographic contiguity with the Muslim-majority area of the Punjab ( in Pakistan ) could be convincingly demonstrated, the political developments during and after the partition resulted in a division of the region.

According to the Covenant, the League should have responded by enacting economic sanctions or declaring war ; it did neither.

According to Weber, this evolution occurred as the growing economic stability allowed professionalisation and the evolution of ever more sophisticated priesthood.

According to Cheong Seong-chang of Sejong Institute, speaking on June 25, 2012, there is some possibility that the new leader Kim Jong-un, who has greater visible interest in the welfare of his people and engages in greater interaction with them than his father did, will consider economic reforms and regularization of international relations.

According to Joseph Stalin writing in 1913 in Marxism and the National Question: " a nation is not a racial or tribal, but a historically constituted community of people ;" " a nation is not a casual or ephemeral conglomeration, but a stable community of people "; " a common language is one of the characteristic features of a nation "; " a nation is formed only as a result of lengthy and systematic intercourse, as a result of people living together generation after generation "; " a common territory is one of the characteristic features of a nation "; " a common economic life, economic cohesion, is one of the characteristic features of a nation "; " a common psychological make-up, which manifests itself in a common culture, is one of the characteristic features of a nation "; " A nation is a historically constituted, stable community of people, formed on the basis of a common language, territory, economic life, and psychological make-up manifested in a common culture.

According to a number of studies, the important predictors are the nature and management of the client's anxiety as well as the accessibility of the helping person.

According to the studies of James Curran, the system of shared values among editors in Britain has generated a pressure among authors to write to fit the editors ' expectations, removing the focus from the reader-audience and putting a strain on the relationship between authors and editors and on writing as a social act.

* According to researchers who conducted large-scale studies of AZT, the drug does not cause AIDS.

According to genetic studies, divergence of primates from other mammals began and the earliest fossils appear in the Paleocene, around.

According to Cynthia A. Freeland in " Feminist Frameworks for Horror Films ," feminist studies of horror films have focused on psychodynamics where the chief interest is " on viewers ' motives and interests in watching horror films ".

According to the Neumark and Wascher, a large majority of the studies show negative effects for the minimum wage ; those showing positive effects are few, questionable, and disproportionately discussed.

According to the Government of Australia's ' Excellence in Research for Australia ' report, the leading universities in the country for media studies ( which were ranked well above World standards by the report's scoring methodology ) are Monash University, QUT, RMIT, University of Melbourne, University of Queensland and UTS.

According to Ann-Marie Gallagher, a professor of women's studies and long-time author of many books related to Wicca, " there is no moralistic doctrine or dogma other than the advice offered in the Wiccan Rede ...

According to the DSM, " Paraphilias are almost never diagnosed in females ," but some case studies of females with paraphilias have been published.

According to more recent studies, the oldest liturgical books indicate that the saint honoured on 30 May was a little-known martyr buried on the Via Aurelia, who was mistakenly identified with Pope Felix I, an error similar to but less curious than the identification in the liturgical books, until the mid-1950s, of the martyr saint celebrated on 30 July with the antipope Felix II.

According to recent scientific studies, low levels of catalase may play a role in the graying process of human hair.

According to scientific studies, natural human skin colour diversity within populations is highest in Sub-Saharan African populations, with skin reflectance values ranging from 19 to 46 ( med.

According to two researchers, some studies have the potential for bias due to the connection of researchers to the TM organization.

According to Canter and Ernst, some studies have the potential for bias due to the connection of researchers to the TM organization.

According to these series of studies, we are irrational about dreams the same way we are irrational in our every day decisions.

According to Morrow, the " most important " studies finding negative effects of Sesame Street were conducted by educator Herbert A. Sprigle and psychologist Thomas D. Cook during its first two seasons.

According to Health Care Market Guide's annual studies, Mid-Southerners have named Baptist Memorial their " preferred hospital choice for quality ".

According to studies by trail historian John Unruh the livestock may have been as plentiful or more plentiful than the immigrants in many years.

According to the studies previously discussed it seems that the hypothesis is supported and that attentional bias has an effect on eating disorders, on how a person restricts their diet and body dissatisfaction.

According to research studies explained by The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, in 2003-2004, Americans two years of age and older consumed 585g per day of beverages and 375g per day of foods with caloric sweeteners.

According to animal studies, taurine produces anxiolytic effect and may act as a modulator or antianxiety agent in the central nervous system by activating the glycine receptor.

According to recent studies of DNA sequence data, most of the smaller " satellite genera " around the huge genus Euphorbia nest deep within the latter.

According to the recent phylogenetic studies, Euphorbia can be divided into 4 subgenera, each containing several not yet sufficiently studied sections and groups.

According to animal studies, lysine deficiency causes immunodeficiency.

According to the Department of Transportation's Freight Management and Operations section's studies, railroad industry costs and prices were halved over a ten year period, the railroads reversed their historic loss of traffic ( as measured by ton-miles ) to the trucking industry, and railroad industry profits began to recover after decades of low profits and widespread railroad insolvencies.