This article reports on the plans of the member countries of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA) in the area of the purchasing power parity comparisons of national product and similar aggregates. A series of comparisons of the U.S.S.R. with other individual member countries was made for 1959,1966, and 1973. A new series will be undertaken for the year 1978. The scope of the progra...

1. In this essay, I reflect on the interconnections between economic marginalisation and racial discrimination in the United States, focusing on the case of African Americans. My concerns are normative (seeking to evaluate the public morality of alternative policy responses to the scourge of racial inequality) and conceptual (seeking to clarify our understanding of the subtle processes that cre...

THE ICN Position: ICN and National Nurses Associations (NNAs) advocate a workplace that is safe and allows for excellence in nursing practice. Nurses have a right to practice in an environment that is conducive to quality care, offers a fair and comparable wage and promotes the occupational safety and health of its employees. In addition, nurses need to work in a family-friendly environment.

investment in oil and gas upstream activities is very important for the exploration and development of oil and gas fields. different and various laws and regulations deal with the investment in upstream operations. by reviewing these various laws and regulations, this research paper tries to discuss to what extent these laws and regulations have created legal confident for foreign investment up...

Alberto Lupidi 1,*, Daniele Staglianò 1,2, Marco Martorella 1,2 and Fabrizio Berizzi 1,2 1 Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario delle Telecomunicazioni (CNIT)-National Laboratory of Radar and Surveillance Systems (RaSS), 56124 Pisa, Italy; [email protected] (D.S.); [email protected] (M.M.); [email protected] (F.B.) 2 Department of Information Engineering, ...

Schumpeter distinguishes between the circular flow of economic activity and economic development. The former is characterised by equilibrium, while the latter involves discontinuous change. The price theory that Schumpeter associates with the circular flow is the well established Walrasian price system. However, the price theory which Schumpeter proposes for economic development is only partial...

T he Oil-For-Food program was established by United Nations Security Council Resolution 986 in 1995 as a means of providing humanitarian relief to Iraq, which had been under U.N. economic sanctions since the Persian Gulf War in 1991. The Oil-For-Food program was divided into six-month phases and required renewal by the Security Council at each phase. The first phase lasted from December 1996 to...

Despite improvements in preparedness, response, and recovery, the intensity of floods is increasing on a global scale. There is no way to fully prevent or mitigate against floods. Therefore, it is necessary to enhance the flood resilience of communities around the world. Due to differences in the location, topography, and socio-economic characteristics of communities, flood risk and resilience ...

A non-profit organization with purely scientific aims, the International Economic Association (IEA) was founded in 1950. It is a federation of some sixty national economic associations in all parts of the world. Its basic purpose is the development of economics as an intellectual discipline, recognizing a diversity of problems, systems and values in the world and taking note of methodological d...

prevent introductions from region to region. Meanwhile, the international community has failed to prevent a stream of species from flowing around the world, with the exception of a 1951 agreement to prevent introductions of plant pests. President Clinton's executive order creates a federal interagency Invasive Species Council whose members include the secretaries of state, treasury, defense, th...