The economic, political and climatic conditions in which farmers around the world have to make their production and … investment decisions are changing dramatically. This study analyses the driving forces of changes in agricultural world markets … agriculture are quantified using of a multi-market-model. The mega-trend of declining world market prices has ended. Since the …

This paper focuses on investment in research and development as a factor of labour productivity and economic growth … productivity (expressed in the number of hours worked) based on selected data for EU Member States in the period 1995-2013. A … development (2.85% of EU GDP) maximising productivity (per hour of work) was determined based on the examined data. In accordance …

, revealing that deepening existing agreements (the intensive margin of regional integration) could boost world trade by 5 percent … and world GDP by 1 percent. The expected gains from deepening agreements within or across regions vary depending on the …