analysis of specific issues or topics. It provides the groundwork for the conference Financial Reform in Japan and Australia by …Introduction: A mere decade ago Japan’s financial system, and especially its banking system, was not only the largest … country. Today presents a completely different picture. Japan’s financial system is weak and in disarray. Banks no longer rank …

fish. Fisheries have faced significant problems, suchas overfishing and low productivity. Similarly, the undoubtedly rapid …

"While the Icelandic fisheries have been managed by individual transferable quotas (ITQs) for almost a decade and the … fisheries sector seems to be performing well in economical terms, there is still no consensus about quota issue. Lately, the … difficult situation of fisheries communities short of quota has been in the centre of the debate. "In 1991-95, the main …

"Access to inshore fisheries in Sierra Leone and their management are discussed in order to provide a basis for … improving fisheries management."On the basis of the property rights framework, the state is the de jure owner of the inshore … fisheries resources, exploited by the artisanal fishers as authorized users. Fishers perceive stocks as a free good and in …

"Fisheries co-management as an alternative to centralised command and control fisheries management is often suggested … as a solution to the problems of fisheries resource use conflicts and overexploitation. Various researchers have talked … fisheries resources. There have however been no attempts to verify empirically by measuring the transaction costs involved in …

"Fisheries management by individual transferable quotas (ITQ's) is being advocated by several fisheries economists as a … solution to 'tragedy of commons' situations in the fisheries. Until lately, the studies of ITQ's have been purely theoretical … adopted ITQ's as an overall fisheries management system on a national level. In Iceland, fish quotas were made transferable …

international cooperation efforts for sharing fisheries information, in addition to find ways to understand meta-population dynamics …

"Over the last two decades the commercial fisheries of the Amazon have expanded considerably. Today a large and varied …