This paper discusses the contribution made by American social scientists to thestudy of poverty in the past twenty five years. It has three parts. The firstconcentrates on the measurement of poverty and the fact that the US povertyline remained unchanged in that period despite its increasingly...

[...]Our research on seven ‘weak marketcities’ in five European countriessupported by the Joseph RowntreeFoundation was completed and theresulting book, Phoenix Cities by AnnePower, Jörg Plöger and Astrid Winkler,will be published in March 2010.However, we were delighted that...

This paper embarks to analyse the role of exports and investment supposed to be major sources of economic growth in Asia Pacific. Therefore at first, the cointegration properties of exports, capital formation and GDP are examined in vector error correction models (VECMs)...

Dieser Beitrag stellt einen Multi-Agenten-Ansatz zur Unterstützung der Disposition des Fahrzeugumschlags im Rahmen von Import- und Exportvorgängen über einen Seehafen vor. Die in der Praxis verantwortlichen, autonom operierenden Planer werden im Rahmen des Multi-Agenten-Systems jeweils durch...

This paper addresses deinstitutionalisation from a longitudinal perspective. Drawing onthe case of software exports policymaking in Costa Rica, it analyses persistence andchange paying particular attention to formation of dissensus, understood as lack ofunanimity on the value of an activity that...