The objective of this paper is to explore the issue of artificial insemination (AI) services delivery in relation to livestock development by reviewing to the case of institutional and organizational arrangement in Bangladesh. It is argued that globalization and adaptation of open market economy...

Increasing occurrence of devastating natural shocks has stimulated research interest in the economics of natural disasters. Much of this scholarly work concentrates on effects of shocks on poverty, risk and vulnerability, and very little on understanding the effects of natural shocks on risk...

LEADER started as a Community Initiative in the European Union in 1991 and has had positive results in rural development in the EU-15, especially on social capital. It is important to emphasise that rural development plans must be prepared at the local level, and LEADER funds are available only...

Compared to urban regions, rural areas can be seen as historicaly marginal space. They, as a rule, leve behind in the process of participation in general developmental trends, mainly due to lack of local capital stock and personalities. Marginality, however, is a context dependet phenomenon and...

A recently published model of the livestock-meat economy is used to illustrate modifications that permit us to obtain a reasonable and consistent set of projected values to 1980. Ecollomic theory and an understanding of the industry were used to introduce a set of assumptions about institutional...

In analyzing the behavior of firms, economists have long distinguished between the in,f1nence of fixed and variable costs. There have gradually appeared in the budgets of many companies certain cost items like promotion and advertising which are allocated for a given period, but which are...