One major concern of the Third World, with its emotional and moralistic overtones, is the production and distribution of food. Unfortunately, however, the world food situation is very complex and any over-simplification is counter-productive. This article confronts the myths with the facts...

Since the Arab oil embargo and the US-Russian wheat deal of 1973 there has been much talk of "agri-power" implying that the United States which normally accounts for 50% or more of the world's wheat exports could follow the oil producers' example and unleash a food weapon to bring the Third...

The objective of this work is to evaluate the risk of business mortality. Considering a sample of over 11,741 firms in the textile-clothing sector, the influence that factors such as age, geographic density (district effect) and the principal productive activity (subsector effect) have on...

Estas cooperativas exigen alianzas de ciudadanos iterativos, personas-agentes racionales (SEN), uniones solidarias, estratégicas, situacionales y prospectivas duraderas. Es que cada cooperativa de trabajo auténticamente lograda, puede ser una solución para la vulnerabilidad laboral actual...

En la cooperativa de trabajo todos y cada uno de sus miembros trabaja sólo y exclusivamente porque son asociados y son asociados porque se comprometieron empresarial -no laboralmente- a aportar en la misma sus esfuerzos destrezas y capacidades personales independientes. De ahí la clara...