The Czech Republic entered the crisis with relatively good starting conditions - showed no significant macroeconomic imbalances and financial system was not destabilized. However, the crisis has here also been and a decline in GDP in 2009 to 4.1% was mainly due to economic recession in the Euro...

Qualquer pessoa física ou jurídica, antes de fazer um investimento produtivo, precisa empregar técnicas de análise econômico-financeira, que o auxiliem a decidir onde empregar seus recursos financeiros, de forma a verificar a viabilidade de cada alternativa de investimento. Neste sentido,...

This paper presents results of estimates of both the financial robustness and the technical efficiency of a representative sample of Scottish farms. Emphasis was placed on those factors that impact on long-term sustainability in order to identify those effects that may be characterised as having...

Throughout the past three decades, since World War II, development has been viewed as an important goal of national life for the poor and rich nations alike. The emerging nations of Africa, Asia and Latin America have come to see development as a continuation of the struggle that has won them...

Although most of the rice area in Indonesia is still prepared manually, since the early 1980s the government has promoted tractors for land preparation through subsidized loans. This has increased capital investment in agriculture; and for the farmers, the cost of owning and operatingtractor has...

In recent years, governmental and nongovernmental organizations in many low-income countries have introduced credit programs targeted to the poor. Many of these programs specifically target the poor on the premise that they are more likely to be credit constrained and have restricted access to...

As a consequence of the expressive changes in global economy those happen from the end of 20th century the structure of the national economy’s sectors internally the structure of the ventures changes also. The (capital) resource gap is said to be the most common obstacle to development and...

Knowledge and its creation, utilisation and diffusion, company growth and business development are all centres to the question of innovation from a theoretical perspective to create unity within a company, and to create a better measure and control system for innovation. Within the control...

In the course of cost-benefit analysis of management information systems such peculiar elements can be found on both sides the interpretation of which might be a difficult task.Looking at the costs the generally known cost elements are found (TCO – Total Cost of Ownership): investment costs...

Both market advisors and researchers have often suggested multiyear rollover hedging as a way to increase producer returns. This study determines whether rollover hedging can increase expected returns for producers. For rollover hedging to increase expected returns, futures prices must follow a...