"Sustainable development must satisfy the needs of present generations without compromising the ability of future generations to meet theirs. Although it looks at the economic, environmental and social aspects of sustainability, this article focuses specifically on an analysis of the concept in...

A time series model is estimated to identify the interrelation among prices on the international and the EU domestic market for butter. Although the findings were not derived from a causal model, the inspection of the data provides economically reasonable and important insights in structural...

The acceptance of the NAFTA and GATT trade agreements will impact the U.S. peanut industry. This paper examines trade distorting policies and evaluates the effects of trade liberalization on peanut producers, shellers, manufactures, and U.S. consumers of peanut products. Decreasing marketing...

Octopus exports are an important source of foreign exchange for Mauritania. The export market has historically been dominated by coordinated Japanese buyers, a situation that led Mauritania to create the Societe Mauritanienne de Commercialisation de Poisson (SMCP) to negotiate with buyers and...

This article deals with the trade with coffee. The primary aim of the paper is to analyse the international coffee trade. Because coffee belongs to the cash crops we have focus on the production. We have analysed the structure of the trade concerning the green (not roasted) coffee, roasted...

Seventy two questionnaires returned by members of the Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals, provided evidence for a negative relationship between the strategic intelligence function’s (SIF) success and a gap between the firm’s environmental turbulence level and its strategic...

"Starting about the late 1960s there have been increasing fears that economic growth would soon lead to the exhaustion of raw materials and, food supplies, or environmental damage of one kind or another. These fears have been accompanied by widespread appeal to the concept of sustainable...

The use of the EFQM model and other business excellence models (BEM?s) has been recognised as a way of improving business processes among organisations. The information gathered through self-assessments using these models show the performance of organisations against several model criteria....

According to the data of practical GDP time sequences from 1978 to 2009 provided by Henan Statistical Yearbook of every year, Hodrick-Prescott filter model is established, and it is disintegrated into tendency component (potential yield) and fluctuation component (yield gap). The critical...