Are the well-known facts about urbanization in the United States also true for the developing world? We compare American metropolitan areas with comparable geographic units in Brazil, China and India. Both Gibrat's Law and Zipf's Law seem to hold as well in Brazil as in the U.S., but China and...

Are the well-known facts about urbanization in the United States also true for the developing world? We compare American metropolitan areas with comparable geographic units in Brazil, China and India. Both Gibrat's Law and Zipf's Law seem to hold as well in Brazil as in the U.S., but China and...

Globalization has its detractors as well as supporters. Concerns have been expressed about the greater ease of fragmenting the production process so that more parts can be outsourced to a variety of countries. Highly developed regions worry about the possibility of greater unemployment or lower...

This paper empirically investigates into the long-run equilibrium relationship and short-run dynamic linkage between the Indian stock market indices and the stock markets of seven developed countries namely, Switzerland, France, Germany, Japan, UK, USA and South Korea and seven developing...

Sugar has often been cited as one of the most policy distorted of all agricultural commodities. These distortions have led some commentators to describe the world market as one where prices bear little relation to average costs of sugar production of the more efficient producers. Much of this is...

A sound agricultural performance may be of help in contributing positively to the food security of many nations, even though, achieving food security in its entirety will continue to be a challenge not only to the emerging nations but also for all countries. In other words, food security issue...

Zum ersten Mal in der Menschheitsgeschichte lebt der gröt︢e Teil der Weltbevölkerung nicht mehr auf dem Land, sondern in den Städten. Die weltweite Urbanisierung geht einher mit einer rasanten sozialen und räumlichen Mobilisierung ganzer Gesellschaften. Während die Stadt- und...

Trade secrets are valuable intellectual property rights that protect confidential information acquired through purchase or licensing. Their value lies in their confidentiality, known only to a limited group, and the owner must take reasonable measures to maintain secrecy. Trade secrets encompass...

In what follows various econometric technique is applied to determine the source of consumption growth with historical retrospective to equity and real estate markets as well comparative analysis of US consumer and Chinese consumer is presented