"Managerial technology" is as important as "medium", "labour-intensive" and other technology in the LDCs. This article describes the situation and some of the problems in the field of industrial costing, giving suggestions for solutions and exemplifying with research results obtained in Brazil.

In den Assoziierungsabkommen mit der CSFR, Polen und Ungarn bietet die Europäische Gemeinschaft weit mehr Marktöffnung, technische Kooperation und ordnungspolitische Orientierungshilfe an als bisher in allen bilateralen Handels- und Kooperationsabkommen mit Drittländern. Die Abkommen können...

The debate on the privatization of enterprises in Eastern Europe often presumes that enterprises are still controlled by an identifiable entity called "the state". This, however, is no longer the case. Since the demise of tight central planning, the nominally state-owned enterprises are de facto...