The production of ethanol has increased in United States and Brazil in recent years, because of incentives to reduce gas consumption. In Brazil, there is a big program to use ethanol both as a single fuel or an additive to gas. In US, the incentive is to use ethanol combined to gas in proportion...

According to USDA's Economic Research Service (ERS), the national net farm income, a key indicator of U.S. farm well-being, is forecast at a record 121 billion in 2013, up 6% from last year, and about 3 billion above 2011's previous record. In addition to record net farm income, farm wealth is...

It is known that cities are the engines of growth of the modern economy and society. Herewith we highlight the national and regional characteristics of urbanization as a global process. Somewhere the urbanization is stimulated, in China for example, somewhere it is limited, as we see in Russia....

A case-based approach to comparative company law / David Cabrelli and Mathias Siems -- General case on directors duties / Theis Klauberg -- Duties of nominee directors / Martin Gelter, Memika Gha and D Gordon Smith -- Obligations of directors in takeovers / Pablo Iglesias-Rodríguez --...