This report presents a global account of the historical relationship between migration, industrialization and economic growth, and then goes on to present an empirical examination of the dynamics immigration from Mirpur (Pakistan) and Jullundur (India) to the UK. It closes by considering the...

El objetivo de este trabajo es analizar las diferentes estrategias de internacionalización empleadas por China desde el inicio de su proceso de liberalización económica hasta la actualidad, en un contexto en el que su modelo de crecimiento se encuentra inmerso en un proceso de reequilibrio....

Incluye bibliografía ; In this paper we provide an overview of the growth model in China and its prospects, taking a medium-run to long-run perspective. Our main conclusions are as follows. First, the still prevailing producer-biased model of managed capitalism in China tends to engender, as an...

Organic farming and fair trade certified chains have emerged in West-Africa since the 1990s inanswer to new alternative markets in developed countries. These chains, involving actors fromNorth and South, are seen as an opportunity to sustainably valorise the small peasants agriculturein Africa...

The global agricultural economy is changing. Commodity prices are declining, andproducers increasingly supply complex value chains. There is growing interest in how farmerscan benefit from emerging market opportunities. Farmers are encouraged to produce high valuecrops and engage in value-adding...

The desirability of and prospects for development of a high-value timber industry in Leyte, Philippines, are examined. Lessons are drawn from extensive research undertaken in tropical north Queensland, Australia, including studies of landholder attitudes; sawmilling activities, including the...

The objective of the study is to identify how micro-enterprises can be integrated into local value chains by using the so-called "value chain approach". The "value chain approach" has become a relatively popular approach among donor agencies and NGOs engaged in Private Sector Development in...

Wenn Unternehmen ihre Geschäftsprozesse auf die Erreichung strategischerWettbewerbsvorteile ausrichten wollen, dürfen sie nicht nur Kosten senken,sondern müssen die Prozesse auf die Kunden und die Unternehmenszieleausrichten. Dafür ist es notwendig, ihre Wertschöpfung zu ermitteln....

Ziel der Arbeit war die Entwicklung eines energiewirtschaftlichen Modells, um künftige Entscheidungen zum Ausbau der regenerativen Energieträger nach unterschiedlichen, sich teilweise widersprechenden Kriterien treffen zu können. Das Modell ist für die strom- und wärmeseitige...

The dissertation has been written within the post graduate program of the German Research Foundation (DFG) on “Business Aspects of Loosely Coupled Systems and Electronic Business”. This program focuses on research related to the diffusion of innovations in the digital age. Accordingly, the...