Several aspects of the situation pertaining to the citizens of Freetown, Sierra Leone are described in the first two chapters. The societal and economic contexts of the community are most heavily emphasized, particularly the transfer of rural institutions to the city as well as the small-scale...

Generally, economists have analyzed development planning in developing countries under the following aspects. First, attention has focused on the plan strategies, policies and targets. Special emphasis is often devoted to whether the targets have been or could be achieved over the relevant time...

Many economists see current land use patterns as inefficient due to various market failures, and planners argue that current patterns do not follow sound planning practice. One policy of interest to both groups is transferable development rights (TDR). TDRs allow the development rights from land...

Az EU-25 országainak egymáshoz viszonyított helyzetét vizsgáltuk néhány makroökonómiai jellemző alapján. A versenyképességet jellemző és a gazdasági aktivitást mérő mutatószámok közül az egy főre jutó GDP, a GDP növekedési üteme és a foglalkoztatottsági arány...

The study explores a long memory conditional volatility model on international grain markets, demonstrating importance of modeling both temporal effects of volatility and long memory process. This study adopts six different volatility models, nested in an ARMA(p,q)- FIGARCH(P,D,Q), to capture...

This paper is Selected for presentation at the Southern Agricultural Economics Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, January 31-February 3, 2009. The research is partially funded by ERS/USDA China Project and Social Science Fund of Jiangsu Province in China. The authors are grateful for...

This study applies panel data techniques to investigate the long-run relationship between energy consumption and GDP for a panel of 19 African countries (COMESA) based on annual data for the period 1980-2005. In the first step, we examine the degree of integration between GDP and energy...

Standard models of management of a single-species fishery generally assume that the biomass is of known size and that it is generated by a well-specified deterministicgrowth law. In reality the biomass is of uncertain size and usually subject to random growth. Several authors have addressed the...

This study focuses on public investments and policy reforms for leveraging growth spillovers at the Africaregional level. It reviews first the theory and evidence of knowledge and growth spillovers generally andsecond the evidence in the African context. Given the limited and scattered evidence...

Within the globalizing world, regions and their identities are subjected to greatpressure. At present, places are engaged in a process of “territorial competition” inan integrated world economy. The identity of the region can be used as a startingpoint to brand a region and differentiate it...