Weak sustainability indicators often suffer from their unrealistic and inadequate assumption of substitutability between natural capital and man-made capital. Defining sustainable development in these terms is almost trivial; measurement problems as well as methodological and sociological issues may be considered as major flaws of operationalizing weak sustainability indicators. On the other ha...

in order to estimate economic values of productive traits (meat, milk and wool) in taleshi native sheep breed of iran, records from economic parameters and performance of local taleshi flocks were used. the economic values of traits were used to select the maximum profit estimation also to study the sensitivity rate of the model the effects of 20 percent increase / decrease in the price of milk...

in recent years, risk management in respect of enterprise-wide risk management (ewrm) has become more important and highly critical to major corporations worldwide including malaysia. in fact, it is interesting to note that when the government of malaysia passed the code of corporate governance in the year 2000, most of the public limited companies (plcs) in malaysia was struggling to implement...

nowadays, in the competitive world of economy, the most considerable issues for managers and shareholders are: 1- managers are after productivity growth with optimum use of financial sources and 2- investors require long-term return from their investment. this standpoint and motivation to increase productivity for managers is the direct consequence of the advent of a new generation of investors...

The Milagrito collaboration recently reported evidence for emission of very high energy gamma-rays in the TeV range from one of the BATSE GRBs, GRB 970417a. Here I discuss possible interpretations of this result. Taking into account the intergalactic absorption of TeV gamma-rays by the cosmic infrared background, I found that the detection rate (one per 54 GRBs observed by the Milagrito) and en...

Pengembangan Mata Pencaharian Alternatif yang berkelanjutan diperlukan untuk melestarikan ekosistem mangrove. Oleh karena itu, penelitian ini bertujuan menentukan jenis mata pencaharian alternatif layak dikembangkan. Metode pengumpulan data dilakukan dengan studi pustaka, observasi dan survei serta Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA). Analisis menggunakan metode Total Economic Valuation (TEV), ...

ABSTRACT- Crop rotation has many benefits for agro-ecosystems production. In order to evaluate two current rotation systems of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) production in Kamalabad region of Fasa, an experiment was conducted during 2015-2016 growing season. The rotation systems were fallow-wheat and cotton (Gossypium spp.)-wheat. Research plots were arranged as a randomized complete block design...

here has been a tremendous growth in student mobility in higher education in the last two decades as universities in the West respond to globalisation, economic growth and capacity building strategies of Asian countries. According to the Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development’s (OECD) 2013 report “Education at a Glance”1, the total number of foreign students enrolled in tertiary e...

This paper provides new evidence on the importance of international technology spillovers channelled by imports and its impact on economic TFP growth of the OECD countries. For this purpose we estimate a version of the growth model with endogenous technological change used in Benhabib and Spiegel (1994), which includes some modifications in order to capture the differences in the degree of succ...