The paper introduces and evaluates six soft approaches used in strategy development and planning. We take a planner's perspective on discussing the concepts of strategy development and planning. This means that we see strategy development and planning as learning processes based on Ackoff's...

The objective of this paper is to describe the change in the stock of human capital, between 1995 and 2006, as measured by levels of formal education attained by the economically active population (PEA), for large agglomerates of Rosario, Tucuman, Mendoza , and GBA Cordoba of Argentina and also...

This article proposes a critical revision of the relationship between commercial integration openness and economic growth, being as it is one of the richest fields in the economic literature. The interest of its effects on economic growth is strengthened by the disparity of results, caused by...

This paper analyzes job transitions for part-time workers in Spain. The first section of the paper reviews existing literature that applies to the Spanish case. First, we selected a sample from the 'continuous sample of work history 2005b' of Spain's Social Security, with individuals who had a...

Today tourism is one of the economic fields with a bigger contribution to the GDP in some countries. Lately these countries have witnessed how this industry became key to their economy. France, Spain Italy and Greece too, the so-called 'Mediterranean Arch' stand out within the framework of the...

This paper examines the impacts of external price shocks in the Malaysian economy. There are three simulations are carried out with different degrees of external shocks using Malaysian Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) and Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) analysis. The model results indicate...

This study shows that the average salary of teachers (in primary and secondary schools) in the province of Tucuman (Argentina) has not evolved uniformly in real terms in the period since the mid-1990s. Real salaries grew slowly between 1996 and 2001, declined significantly between 2002 and 2004,...

In the present paper it is proposed the introduction of a reform in the parental paid-leave system of Spain, so that the total equality between maternity and paternity leaves is obtained, as in the case of Germany or Iceland. In particular, it is supported a leave system that consists of...

According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization changes in the land use of many developing countries have resulted into a rapid process of deforestation in tropical areas during the 80s and 90s. The impact of insecure ownership and badly defined property rights on deforestation...

This paper seeks to evaluate the present and future prospects of developing and developed countries in agricultural exports in general and in horticultural exports in particular. The study also evaluates the behaviour of international export prices for agricultural commodities, both for...