A proposal from an international mining company to establish a copper mining operation in the Caribbean island of … therefore whether copper mining could be a viable alternative to agrarian uses of the targeted area, if both financial and …, such projects are often associated with environmental damage. The area targeted for this copper mine was a rainforest in …

upgrading process? 3) How can the development of business linkages and the upgrading process (and, therefore, the integration … chains. The study includes investigation into the following points: 1) Which business linkages exist among micro …-enterprises and with enterprises of different sizes and sectors, and how are they related to the upgrading process of micro …

themselves with Zambia Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU), thereby strengthening the socio-political representation of the informal …

. Based on the analysis of nine oil and gas companies, this study supports a previous study involving fourteen mining … companies that showed reserves growth is one of the main levers of value creation in mining. Interestingly, this study also … finds that the oil and gas industry has been historically more profitable than mining. The reason, it is argued, is that oil …

This research aims to elucidate how economic value is generated in the mining business and what the sources of such … economic value are. A predicament arises when asking what determines the value of a mining company. The relevancy of this … question rests on the influence of mining in economics and society at large. This subject has become even more critical during …

growth in Zambia for the period 2002-2009, using quarterly data. While there is numerous empirical research conducted on this … in Zambia. The investigation of the causal relationship is conducted by using two methods: the recent and better Toda and … Toda and Yamamoto approach, as well as comparison with the only study done on Zambia on the topic. Results of the Toda and …

Nigeria and China. As the OECD Conferences on Women Entrepreneurs in Small and Medium Enterprises held in Paris in 1997 and … difficult(OECD, 1998, 2001). Should China and Nigeria follow a similar pattern to other societies during the development process …

wird China in zahlreichen Zeitungsartikeln als "Motor der globalen Automobilindustrie" bezeichnet. Beinahe täglich finden …, die China als den weltweit wichtigsten Wachstumsmarkt für die internationale Automobilindustrie darstellen, wechseln sich … chinesischer Hersteller gewarnt. Welche Entwicklung hat stattgefunden, die es der chinesischen Automobilindustrie innerhalb weniger …