The export performance of Sub-Saharan Africa has lagged behind that of developing countries in other regions for the past two decades, and total export proceeds have fallen significantly since 1980. Many factors explain this outcome, including continued concentration in slowly-growing non-fuel...

The major food projection agencies see per capita food supplies continuing to increase and real prices of foodstuffs continuing to decline. This trend in food prices has made, and will continue to make, achievement of food security possible for a greater proportion of the world's population....

How many years will the average transition economy need to reach the income level of the average OECD country? The favoured methodology in use to answer such questions is referred to as the BLR approach, because it uses specifications from Barro, and Levine and Renelt. The literature has so far...

In Austria, the dent in the business cycle, which occurred at the turn of 1998-99 in the wake of international financial and economic crises and weak demand from its main trading partners, appears at last to have been overcome. Businesses are once again optimistic in their outlook with regard to...

PATTIE C. and JOHNSTON R. (1998) The role of regional context in voting: evidence from the 1992 British General Election, Reg. Studies 32, 249-263. Recent British General Election results have produced an increasingly distinct regional geography of the vote, with the Conservatives performing...

Renewable energy, especially its new forms, starts from a very small base. The pace of recent development and diffusion has been too slow, and effective action is required to accelerate development and diffusion. The paper provides the results of recently published work on global energy...