World market prices of industrial raw materials will further decline in 1992 (–4 percent) before rising with the cyclical recovery in 1993. Austrian import prizes of industrial raw materials have already started moving upwards thereby reversing the trend of the last quarters when they fell...

After the strong increases in 1994 and 1995 by 17 percent and 19 percent, respectively, prices of industrial raw materials are set to advance by a more modest 3 percent this year, as a consequence of weaker demand related to sluggish industrial output growth. By the first half of 1997, prices...

At the beginning of 1994 world market prices for industrial raw materials reversed their direction: after they had fallen by 4 percent in 1992 and by 14 percent in 1993, they grew by 8 percent during the first quarter of 1994. It is likely that this tendency will continue throughout the next few...

Over the last two decades, in all European countries the transportation sector became the sector that caused the greatest environmental damages, a position formerly held by the "smoke stack industries". True, environmental standard of motor vehicles have been improved through stiffer and stiffer...