This paper presents an empirical investigation into the effects of European Union structural policy funding in the poor, remote, rural area of Evrytania in Greece. First, the socio-economic profile of the area is presented, followed by a detailed description of structural policy intervention in...

This paper examines the extent to which garment industry in Swaziland has contributed to the economic empowerment of the Swazi people through creation of new jobs and improvement in their overall welfare. In Swaziland as elsewhere in many African countries, unemployment has been and is still a...

This paper analyses the effect of non-credit services of joint liability credit institutions on smallholder women beekeepers’ honey income. The non-credit services offered to the beekeepers are mainly enterprise development services (training on marketing, business, production and subsector...

The paper examines empirical returns from holding thirty- and ninety-day call and put positions,and the forecasting performance of implied volatility in the live and feeder cattle optionsmarkets. In both markets, implied volatility is an upwardly biased and inefficient predictor ofrealized...

Rural Development

The corn grain ethanol industry experienced rapid growth from 2005- 07. U.S.financial markets obliged and supplied credit at reasonable cost and terms which facilitated thisexpansion. Now, the biofuel industry is being challenged to nearly triple production underrecently passed federal...

Economic slowdown and downturn creates new situation for every organisation, no one can avoid facing to new situation createdby the global financial-, and economic crisis. All of the organisational function should reconsider its own role within the company due to thenew circumstances, Accounting...

The objectives are (1) to reveal some current issues on organisations founded by fruit and vegetable producers and (2) to stressupon those factors that should be highlighted in the very next future. In Hungary, POs have been accounting for bigger share of fruit andvegetable trading in Hungary,...

The study aimed at identifying factors limiting the Tietê and Paraná valleys economic growth. Specifically, it analyzed the importance of the capital stocks for economic growth of these and the other counties in São Paulo State. Nine factors were generated by Principal Components Method to...

The study analyses the convergence or not of the counties of the state of Rio Grande do Sul to a same level of income per capita. It also examines variables associated with the economic growth of the counties, such as the regional location, the participation of the economic sectors and the...