craftsmen in Bruges; but by the 1480s, when inflation was far more serious in Flanders than in England, that gap had narrowed to … just about 80 percent of that for the Bruges craftsmen, still the best paid in north-west Europe. In Bruges, the craftsmen … Flanders, the English journeyman’s real wage was slightly higher than that for his Bruges counterpart. In general, English …

. Oscar Gelderblom traces the successive rise of Bruges, Antwerp, and Amsterdam to commercial primacy between 1250 and 1650 …

Describes the experiences, strategies adopted and problems encountered with regard to reforms in the Chilean port of …

Describes the experiences, strategies adopted and problems encountered with regard to reforms in the Peruvian port of …

Describes the experiences, strategies adopted and problems encountered with regard to reforms in the Colombian port of …

Presents the experiences, strategies and problems, and particularly its social impact relating to reforms in the port …

port of Buenos-Aires. …

major port cities in China over the period 2003–2010, our econometric analysis shows that port cargo throughput has a … larger positive association with the local port city. Through examining some of the most dynamic ports in the world, this …

This paper provides a novel and unique methodology for evaluating the effectiveness performance of a port’s individual … services by utilizing the concept of a port service chain – a service network utilized by a port’s service providers in the … provision of the port’s services that accounts for the quality-of-service relationships among the services. If such …