This study was prepared for the Financial Services and Poverty Reduction research project and was presented at the conference with the same name held at Bank headquarters in September of 2004. It first establishes the considerable welfare cost borne by the region's poor when facing uncovered...

Sustainable development of European Union, in conformity with objectives and provisions of “Europe of 2020” Strategy, is based on capitalization of potential small and medium enterprises. The paper presents relevant aspects concerning SMEs community space sector and emphasizes main adopted...

Perception of risk and its intensity of manifestation require knowledge of "environment" in which agriculture operates. Knowledge is the fundament of the information about the importance and peculiarities of agriculture.

This paper questions why, despite the sustainable development concept having been prominent at an international level for well over 20 years, there is little to show by way of a transition to a sustainable world. Instead, in many ways, the situation is deteriorating. The paper critiques the...