Many commercially important fish stocks are harvested with very high exploitation rates with the consequence of substantial changes in stock parameters as well as reduced harvest rates and, in the worst case, stock depletion. On a long-term the Arcto-Norwegian cod is the most productive cod...

This paper evaluates the macroeconomic performance of Slovakia since the start of economic reforms and discusses the implications of its accession to the European Union. It argues that the above-standard nature of Czech-Slovak economic relations makes Slovakia's position in the accession process...

Mozambique is one of the poorest countries in the world. It also has one of the world's highest birth rates. Until recently there has been virtually no way to study Mozambique's high fertility because of the civil war. This paper uses a very recent survey of Mozambican women from 1997. The...

This Interim Report first appeared as a chapter in \f2Climate Change - Socio-economic Dimensions of Mitigation Measures\f1 (Pekka Pirilae, Editor; publisher Oy EDITA AB, Helsinki, 2000). It is reprinted here, with permission, with minor revisions. Preceding chapters in the book discuss possible...