The Africa Economic Research Consortium (AERC) hosted the third in the series of Workshops between January 31 – February 1, 2007; in Nairobi, Kenya. The partners Africa’s Development Bank (AFDB), Joint Africa Institute (JAI), United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), New Economic Partnership for African Development (NEPAD) and the World Bank provided assistance with logistical arra...

Economic profit is produced by entrepreneurs, those special individuals able to detect and seize as yet unexploited market opportunities. In general capitalist firms manage to deliver positive profits even in the most competitive environments. They can do so thanks to internal entrepreneurs, a subset of their employees able to drive change and develop innovation in the workplace. This paper arg...

Since a review of the economics of malaria conducted in the early 1990s [24], there has been some growth in the literature, although still very little relative to the need for understanding of the economic aspects of malaria and its control. The aim of this paper is to provide a brief review of current knowledge on economics of malaria, and to identify key knowledge and research capacity needs....

This study mainly aims to explore and examine the relationship between family socio-economic status and maternal health care seeking behaviour in rural Bangladesh. This is a total of 200 eligible couples were selected from 3 villages namely Rathni, Beurjari and Udaipur of Baliadangi Upazila through simple random sampling. The selected couples were interviewed by questionnaire method. Frequency ...

in critical analysis, different aspects of an issue will be analyzed from point of view of current discourse of society. the objective of this paper, is to critically analyze the economic goals of development plans (pre and post revaluation). in this respect, many papers and research report has been considered and the results show that critical discourse have paid attention to plans and its eco...

This study aims at assessing if benefits, based on the economic performance of farms operating in an agro-food supply chain, are generated by a vertical coordination. A panel data (2008–2011) of durum wheat producers was used, namely the Italian Farm Accountancy Data Network (FADN). Outcomes of coordinated and non-coordinated farms with equal farm and farmer characteristics were calculated thro...

This article analyses the economic potential of mobility technologies away from the present discussion about “UMTS-killer applications”. The starting point for this is the changing economic importance of “location” in a mobile economy and the possibilities of implementing new services – namely Location-Related Services (LRS). Based on an economic classification scheme with two different types o...

The econophysics approach to socio-economic systems is based on the assumption of their complexity. Such assumption inevitably leads to another assumption, namely that underlying interconnections within socio-economic systems, particularly nancial markets, are nonlinear, which is shown to be true even in mainstream economic literature. Thus it is surprising to see that network analysis of nanci...