The causality between energy consumption and real income in developed countries has been a very vital research topic in recent years. Raising concerns about climate change and global warming increase the pressure on policy makers to take action against energy depletion. Unfortunately these...

The 2003 Energy review,contains information about the 2003 energy situation of each of our member countries, regional data, as well as economic and social indicators corrected and extended through historical series. It presents and innovative structure for analysis that allows the reader to...

In the financial crisis literature, it is usually argued that, contrary to the case of currency crises, building a time series index to identify banking crisis episodes is highly difficult, particularly because of the lack of reliable data on banking sector variables (non-performing loans,...

Die "Asiatic Pacific Economic Cooperation" (APEC) hält vom 20. bis 23. November 1996 ihre nun schon achte Ministerkonferenz in Manila ab. Im unmittelbaren Anschluß (25.11.1996) findet das vierte informelle Treffen der Regierungschefs der Mitgliedsländer der APEC statt. Dieser Zusammenschluß...

Covers trends in the 1980s and 1990s. Includes case studies of social and labour policies in eight companies.

This report is a comparative study of worldwide transfer costs to nine countries in Europe, Asia, and Africa, and specifically at costs for immigrants to send money from major sending countries including from the United States. It also compares these international trends with costs and trends of...