Food insecurity has been in the public eye for a long time. However, it began to make a serious impact and became a prominent issue on the development debate recently. Symbolic to this problem ...więcej »
Many studies on bank efficiencies and
productivity have been conducted but, to-date; a wide gap
exists and few have referred to banks in Arab Gulf
Cooperation Co...więcej »
Over the last 30 years, Education Econmics(EE)in China was reviewed and summarized mainly depending on the personal subjective experiences and simple statistics. As a result,it is hard to object...więcej »
This book analyzes demand and market share instability in both the cigarette and beer industries. The demand specifications focus on advertising expenditures, product price, income, and policy eff...więcej »
The globalization of trade has lead to an enormous growth in sea transportation over the last years. A great majority of general cargo is containerized and handled in container terminals, which are...więcej »
This paper focuses on calculating the most economically efficient ways of limiting CO2 emissions using technologies available in Europe. The emission scenarios incorporate nuclear power plants and ...więcej »
The elimination of child labor and
universal primary education are two major issues in
developing economies. The estimates, determinants and
prospects differ ...więcej »
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, information about groundwater contamination in Silicon Valley became widely available. While many residents already knew of the twenty-three groundwater contam...więcej »
This book presents evidences on how the financial
interventions
have effects on the balance sheets of banks in the
Turkey and
therefore, on the economy, during 'normal' times and
during crises. ...więcej »
Urban poverty,more than ever, has become a pervasive reality and mind boggling task for developing countries. Its persistence and rise,among others,is attributed to the understanding gap that it is...więcej »
This book surveys and discusses some of the main theoretical issues raised by adaptation to climate changes and describes in detail an empirical case study on the metrics and the estimates of re...więcej »
This study focuses on the client-contractor
bargaining problem in the context of multi- mode
resource constrained project scheduling. The
bargaining objective is to maximize the bargaining
obje...więcej »
The Indian capital market has witnessed many changes in the past decade. A major reform undertaken by SEBI was the introduction of derivative products: Index future, Index options, stock options a...więcej »
This dissertation analyzes the relationship between environmental regulation, energy market developments, and economic performance. It shows that the economic impacts of the recently adopted enviro...więcej »
The Varieties of Capitalisms (VOC) approach focuses on institutional complementarities. These complementarities explain how and why different types of capitalist systems are able to co-exist and co...więcej »
Family business studies can benefit from research attention focused on successors. Researchers have proposed that founder leadership has an overshadowing affect on subsequent generations in the fa...więcej »
Research concern in demography has focused mainly on socioeconomic effects of population dynamics such as its size and rate of growth with its two major indicators i.e. birth rate & death rate. Thi...więcej »
Stimulus policies or poor relief? That is the main government role dilemma. The goal of this book is to look into economic institutions less visited by economics: labor bonding. They are specifi...więcej »
This dissertation contributes to our
understanding of the mechanisms behind the development of
the state's ability to coercively enforce. In so doing, the
disser...więcej »