Kriisitilanteissa erilaisten organisoitumiseen liittyvien ongelmien on todettu hankaloittavan kriisin onnistunutta hoitoa. Artikkelissa tarkastellaan organisoitumistavoista kahta: byrokraattista ja jälkibyrokraattista toimintamallia. Keskeisenä tutkimuskysymyksenä on, näkyivätkö...

Technology transfer for climate change mitigation needs to focus on the diffusion of existing technologies as well as the innovation of technologies. • Diffusion requires full involvement of non-state actors, particularly business investors in new and renewable energy technologies and the...

Global warming, ozone depletion, and “poverty of many nations” are the most pressing issues confronting modern society today. In this study of the interface of ecology with economics, these issues are referred hereto as the Critical Natural Capital (CNC). In the global affairs of Planning...

The paper uses annual data on real GDP for the UK regions and 12 manufacturing sectors to derive regional and regional/sectoral business cycles using an H-P filter. The cohesion of the cycles is examined via cross-correlations and comparisons made with the regional cycles for Japan, the United...

This paper looks at the relationship between fiscal and political decentralization and the evolution of regional inequalities in a panel of 26 countries – 19 developed and 7 developing – for the period between 1990 and 2006. Using an instrumental variables method, it finds that whereas for...

In earlier times economists used to view the world in terms of dual economic models. For Marx the Asiatic mode of production(1) was the concept which was the counterpart of the Western feudalism from which the capitalist regime and bourgeois society emerged: Weber regarded the Confucian...

Saudi Arabia is often treated as an exceptional case by both political scientists and regional specialists. This is true in many regards, but both communities seem to overlook the fact that the nature of the kingdom as an »outlier« makes the testing and comparison of broader hypotheses of...