Access to modern energy is believed to be a prerequisite for sustainable development, poverty alleviation and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals.

Economic crisis in Romania fully installed by the end of 2008, resulted in dramatic decreases among companies of significant adjustment costs and budgets. In an attempt to keep business afloat, companies are looking for effective solutions ranging from cash flow monitoring, renegotiating...

Este módulo trato sobre la Unión Europea y la proyección económica y política de las asociación estratégica con América Latina. Además se disertó sobre la región Asia Pacífico como horizonte del siglo XXI. Por último, se comentó la participación de Brasil en el grupo de los BRIC,...

En este módulo se disertó sobre el reordenamiento político y económico internacional y los retos que ello implica para el Perú. Además se hizo una amplia presentación sobre el estado del sistema financiero mundial y las perspectivas para nuestro país. Por último, se desarrolló el tema...

What obstacles prevent the most productive technologies from spreading to less developed economies from the world's technological frontier? In this paper, we seek to shed light on this question by quantifying the geographic and human barriers to the transmission of technologies. We argue that...

The article contributes to knowledge about the evolution of industrial districts specialised in traditional manufacturing industries as a result of internationalization processes. On the basis of a longitudinal field study, the article describes the change in outsourcing firms’ behaviour that...

We investigate jointly the importance of contemporary country-level institutional structures and local ethnic-specific pre-colonial institutions in shaping comparative regional development in Africa. We utilize information on the spatial distribution of African ethnicities before colonization...

We use the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 to show that personal relationships which individuals maintain for non-economic reasons can be an important determinant of regional economic growth. We show that West German households who have social ties to East Germany in 1989 experience a persistent...