The chemical industry plays a key role in sustaining the world economy and underpinning future technologies, yet is under unprecedented pressure from the effects of globalization and change in many of its traditional markets. Against this background, what will be needed for the industry to embrace efforts to make it "greener"? We explore some of the issues raised by the development of "green ch...

INTRODUCTION DEFINITIONS CHARACTERISTICS OF THE RURAL NONFARM ECONOMY Size Composition Equity impact DYNAMIC PATHWAYS OF RURAL NONFARM GROWTH Shifting motors of rural economic growth The “pull” scenario in dynamic agricultural regions The “push” scenario in stagnant agricultural zones Urbanization and migration Liberalization and globalization Summing up IMPLICATIONS FOR THE RURAL POOR Motivati...

sweeping changes have taken place in the world’s economy in recent decades, changes that have reshaped the structure of employment on a global scale. national economies are now more integrated into the global system more than any other time in the recent past. the volume of international trade and the magnitude of cross-border capital flows have reached historically high levels. advances in com...

It is of fundamental interest to everyone engaged in the process of European Enlargement to address the following question: howimportantinEU catching upactivitiesbythecandidatecountriesistheR&Dsector,andhow instrumental in enhancing this sector have been so far the opportunities offered by the 5 th Framework Programme? While any measurable answer to the first part of the above question is anyho...

1. A globalizing sports economy 1.1 The Economic Significance of Sport 1.2 From Sport Participation to Global Sport Markets 1.3 Sports and Economic (Under-) Development 2. Sports economics: the economic determinants and impact of sport activities 2.1. The economic determinants of sport performances 2.2. The economic impact of sports megaevents 2.3. The economic theory of professional team sport...

The last two decades have witnessed the emergence and consolidation of an economic paradigm which emphasizes domestic deregulation and the removal of barriers to international trade and finance. If properly managed, such an approach can lead to perceptible gains in health status. Where markets are non-exclusionary, regulatory institutions strong and safety nets in place, globalization enhances ...

Globalization has reached the spheres including, economy and software development, making the approach known as Global Software Development (GSD) increasingly adopted. In that the physical, cultural and temporal distances are inherent. They can introduce advantages such as better use of resources in different places and thus stimulate cooperation for the software development. On the other hand,...

This papers studies how the stabilization role of monetary policy in response to asset price shocks changes with the globalization of financial markets. Changes in asset prices affect production through a credit channel and monetary policy can stabilize the macro-economy with counter-cyclical interventions. The paper shows that, as financial markets become internationally integrated, stabilizat...

The phenomenon of globalization, which refers to the rising trade and Ž nancial integration of the world economy, has gathered steam in recent decades. The growth rate of world trade has been greater than that of world output in almost all years since 1960, and the cumulative increase in the volume of world trade is almost three times larger than that of world output over this period. A more dr...

Under the background of the knowledge economy and globalization, knowledge becomes the firm's strategic resources, enhancing the core competence of industrial clusters requires knowledge management. In this paper, firstly, the connotation of the core competence of industrial clusters is analyzed. The mechanism of knowledge management affecting the core competence of industrial clusters is studi...