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As the world grows more connected, long-term scenario perspectives are required at global, regional, national and local levels for environmental sustainability. By presenting a review of the...

This publication analyzes the process of social stratification and the social structure emerging in Kyrgyzstan in the course of transition. Macroeconomic policies, privatization, agrarian reforms and...

This publication presents a short-run theoretical macroeconomic model of a small open economy endowed with a natural resource exporting sector. The paper attempts to differentiate between the economic...

This publication addresses the question of economic development, by analyzing the experience of three associations of agricultural producers in the underdeveloped regions of Brazil and Italy that have...

The publication attempts to find out whether the 1870-1914 period was in some sense 'unique'; i.e. whether the success of the resource-rich economies during these years was built on a configuration of...

This volume attempts to explain the consequences of environmental change and deterioration of ecosystems on human health and analyzes global, regional, and national trends. It assesses the status of...

This publication presents a global assessment of acidification and eutrophication caused by sulphur and nitrogen deposition. The study has two objectives: the first is to assess the present and...

This paper discusses the theoretical concepts underlying recent developments in the regulation of telecommunications in Europe, the USA and developing countries with respect to efficiency and welfare...

This publication offers a glance of the Nordic economies through the discussion of an economic condition known as the Dutch disease. The study argues that natural resource abundance may retard...

This publication discusses the political economy of the conflict that took place in Guinea-Bissau in 1998, the difficulties in negotiating its end, and the tasks that now face donors and national...

This publication examines economies of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan through the discussion of the IMF model of the economic transition. The publication demonstrates the flaws in the IMF model by pointing...

The Global Environment Outlook (GEO-2000) explores alternative policy options for Europe and Central Asia, focusing on energy use as an important driver for environmental problems across the region...

For millennia, humans have altered the world's ecosystems to meet their growing demands for food, fibre and water or to build cities, roads or other infrastructure. Many of these changes to ecosystems...