Focusing on coca, coffee, gold, soy, sugar, and tea, articles in a special issue of the Austrian Journal Historical Studies 30/3 (2019) Global Commodities aim at tracing emergence commodity chains through expansion contraction frontiers. Frontier shifts imply complex – potentially conflicting interactions shaped by as well shaping socio-natural systems. Thus, contributions reveal their frontier...

This paper empirically studies (i) forecasting emergency relief aid shipments and (ii) redesigning upstream humanitarian supply chains as means to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of disaster response. The United States Agency for International Development provided unique data about its emergency food aid shipments over a period of about eleven years. We find that while it is not possib...

The impact of the dependence on primary commodities for economic development is analysed within the framework of growth regressions. While there is no evidence of a " generalized " primary commodity curse, reliance on primary commodities does retard growth in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Which factors account for this SSA specificity? Some suggest that SSA specializes in commodities that are not c...

Background Uganda was one of seven countries in which the United Nations Commission on Life Saving Commodities (UNCoLSC) initiative was implemented starting from 2013. A nationwide survey was conducted in 2015 to determine availability, prices and affordability of essential UNCoLSC maternal and reproductive health (MRH) commodities. Methods The survey at health facilities in Uganda was conduc...

MEDICAL PRACTICE in Bristol during the nineteenth century has been discussed from several points of view. These are histories of the hospitals and of the practitioners closely connected with them, and brief descriptions of the local dispensaries,1 while a detailed account ofpauper medical relief in Bristol has been given by Hodgkinson who quotes figures for the numbers receiving this relief in ...

Because current literature on globalization largely neglects racism, it fails to explain the experiences of contemporary African American youth within the new racialized social class formations of globalization. I suggest that because African American youth live within the borders of the sole remaining world superpower, their experiences might shed light on social class relations of advanced ca...