Making decisions about optimal investments in green infrastructure necessitates setting social discount rates. This paper suggests a practical way for determining the discount rate for projects or programmes in which one of the options is to maintain or restore land to an undeveloped state. We...

Slow Food is an Italy-based international organization that aims to save the varieties, breeds, and foods threatened by the standardization and homogenization of agriculture resulting from the widespread use of conventional practices. Through an analysis of one of Slow Food’s projects, a...

In this paper we analyze the influence of corporate age and size on profitability as well as the economic-financial characteristics that best distinguish the most profitable companies in the construction sector within the Basque Country, compared to the less profitable ones. The information...

This article reviews the implementation of the Cohesion Regional Policy of the European Union in the Basque country. It begins recalling the initial support of the FEDER and it continues telling, one by one, the different periods of multiannual program. It values the reach of the Basque...

In the last forty years, the average annual growth rate of GDP per capita in the Basque Country is around 1.7%, which rises above 2% if we consider only the last twenty years. It is due to a pattern of economic growth where the labour productivity per hour worked, and the procyclical behaviour...

This article aims at offering a first tentative approach to the strategies for economic development in the Basque country from early modern times to the beginnings of the 21st century, following the analytical framework suggested by Aranguren et al. (2012). The first section briefly discusses...

This article examines the scale, cover, intensity and social risks covered by the social protection system in the Basque Country, and its funding sources. The period from 1995 to 2008 is analysed and compared with the situation in other European Union countries. Finally, the challenges currently...

[ES] Hoy en día, cualquier partido político debe utilizar el marketing para analizar su mercado y posicionarse en el mismo con una estrategia adecuada. Para ello, el papel de la investigación comercial resulta fundamental, dado que nos permite detectar las necesidades y deseos de los...

Making decisions about optimal investments in green infrastructure necessitates setting social discount rates. This paper suggests a practical way for determining the discount rate for projects or programmes in which one of the options is to maintain or improve land in its natural state. We...

<b>RESUMEN:</b><br> <br> Los factores socio-territoriales constituyen elementos determinantes de las estrategias de desarrollo local, ya que las características de los sistemas productivos o el tipo de institucionalidad condicionan las políticas. Sin embargo, dichas limitaciones pueden ser paliadas mediante...