Starting from the changing role of governments in planning (physical, environmental, economie etc), this paper calls attention to the drastic structural changes taking place in the regional scène after the transition towards market orientation and global competitiveness. The main focus is on European developments. In addition to economie forces, two phenomena will be highlighted, viz. the trans...

Background: This paper describes the socio-economic profile of medical students in the 1998/99 academic year at the Universidade Eduardo Mondlane (UEM) Medical Faculty in Maputo. It aims to identify their social and geographical origins in addition to their expectations and difficulties regarding their education and professional future. Methods: The data were collected through a questionnaire a...

The purpose of this article is to clarify the policy and legal provisions in development high-quality human resources (H-Q HR) field education. A number studies have shown that policies laws play an important role developing H-Q HR, but it also a barrier if are not suitable for actual country. This research focuses on analyzing real situation HR education training, pointing out major successes ...

The research completed aimed to show that the idea of fair trade, using the example of goals for the chocolate industry of the Ivory Coast, can be described as an example of the economic ideal which and its failures, and the ideals purported by fair trade organizations and partners, parallels can be made. This analysis showed that Karl Marx’s philosophy coordinates with fair trade ideals in top...

Russia has adopted a neo-authoritarian media system that has more in common with similar non-democratic systems around the world than with the Soviet system that once prevailed on the same territory. Though the picture for media freedom in Russia is bleak today, the types of control imposed are significantly different from the Soviet era in terms of breadth, depth, and mechanisms of control, an...