This paper assesses the prospects for the new Polish monetary policy strategy of inflation targeting. Regarding the general requirements for implementing an inflation targeting strategy it appears that Poland has made sufficient progress in reducing fiscal dominance and hardening budget...

Traditional success criteria for construction projects centre on the achievement of cost, programme and quality targets. In this paper, it is argued that these simple measures are too crude to be used for gauging managers' performance in the context of today's construction project environment,...

When consumers are highly charged with the anticipation of indulging in a pleasurable eating experience, a service failure that threatens to deny them the opportunity to satisfy their appetitive goals produces an “interrupted anticipation.” This study demonstrated that among those whose...

Constribution to the Debate on the Political Culture in (Southern) African States in Africa Spectrum.

El objetivo de este documento es identificar las prácticas más adecuadas para el diseño e implementación de proyectos de desarrollo de autogestión comunitaria en Centroamérica, con especial énfasis en el caso de Nicaragua. El presente estudio se emprendió con el deseo de mejorar las...

The success of the design and build (D&B) procurement route could be undermined by issues arising from the rigid professional cultures of individual participants within project workgroups. These have the potential to inhibit the achievement of a key espoused benefit of D&B procurement, i.e. that...

This paper examines the factors and constraints that affect recent and potential growth in Croatia, as well as policies that can influence it. On current productivity trends, it estimates Croatia's potential growth rate at 4-4½ percent, a result reasonably robust to different methodologies....