areas, global models become a tool for dialogue on the question of new international economic orders. The theoretical …, Europe, Latin America, and the United States of December 1976. The focus was on global modelling, its formalization and …

The global scope and depth of the 2007-2009 crisis is unprecedented in the post World War II period. As such, the most …

other socio-economic issues in a long term global context. The present paper therefore describes the work in progress on a …

The concept of basic needs is today at the center of many discussions about development and the international order …. Some international organizations are rethinking their prior evaluation of development policies based largely on aggregate … further the implications of the basic needs approach to develop policies, and to implications for the international economic …

data by the least squares principle. Estimation has been done by the Particle Swarm (PS) methods of global optimization …

investment and configuration costs as well as interactive global reach) potentially could play a pivotal role in enabling … increasing connectivity and visibility at national, regional and global-scale value chains. In the light of this background, this …

analytical and policy issues from a global and North-South perspective. The analytical issues include the reasons for the better … than expected performance of the world economy following the early period of acute crisis, the role of global financial … international cooperation and policy coordination are essential to continued recovery and improvement in the distribution of the …

escape from being caught in such local optima. The Particle Swarm Method of global optimization is one of such methods. A … optimization testifies the success of bounded rationality and decentralized decisionmaking in reaching at the global optima. It has … global optimum by the Repulsive Particle Swarm method. The program has been tested on over 90 benchmark functions of varied …