Starting with the year 2009, the European Union, as well as the rest of the world, was affected by the economic and financial crisis, and one of the effects reflected in the decrease of foreign direct investment (FDI) projects and also in the reduction of their host locations. Creating a healthy...

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper discussing trade liberalization trade policies capable of promoting the integration of developing countries into the international economic system - comments on shortcomings of economic development associated with import substitution; examines the need to combine...

From a broad philosophical framework, this paper addresses the relation between freedom and economic performance. It argues for the thesis that, although a liberal system does not guarantee absolute harmony, is the only "convenient" and morally valid for a modern society. The core of this...

1999 hat sich die Konjunktur nach dem starken Aufschwung während der Jahre 1994 bis 1998 zunächst spürbar abgekühlt. Ab dem zweiten Quartal gewann die Industrieproduktion aber - mit der Kommunikationstechnik als Zugpferd - wieder rasch an Schwung. Das reale Bruttoinlandsprodukt (BIP)...

This paper presents two applications of the multi-scale integrated analysis of societal metabolism (MSIASM) approach. The first application shows that accounting the metabolism of a society in both economic and biophysical terms supports a better understanding of mechanisms determining...