THE PAST 130 YEARS HAVE SEEN AT LEAST four major surges in private capital flows to emerging markets.1 The first, from about 1870 to the outbreak of World War I, was a boom in bond finance, largely to labor-scarce and resource-abundant economies of recent European settlement. The second was the post–World War I recovery, lasting until the Great Depression, of bond lending to finance public sect...

It is generally known that software system development lifecycle (SSDL) should be managed adequately. The global economy crisis and subsequent depression have taught us certain lessons on the subject, which is so vital for enterprises. The paper presents the adaptive methodology of enterprise SSDL, which allows to avoid "local crises" while producing large-scale software. The methodology is bas...

An increase in the frequency and intensity of environmental crises associated with accelerating human-induced global change is of substantial concern to policy makers. The potential impacts, especially on the poor, are exacerbated in an increasingly connected world that enables the emergence of crises that are coupled in time and space. We discuss two factors that can interact to contribute to ...

This paper addresses a traditionally sensitive issue concerning the international spillovers from the U.S. monetary policy. The issue is sensitive because many observers feel that U.S. monetary authorities make decisions that have potentially large consequences for the global economy, almost exclusively based on domestic considerations. In the early 1980s, for instance, the focus of the debate ...

The emergence of pervasive wide-area distributed computing environments, such as pervasive information systems and computational Grid, has enabled a new generation of applications that are based on seamless access, aggregation and interaction. For example, it is possible to conceive a new generation of scientific and engineering simulations of complex physical phenomena that symbiotically and o...

Given the cyclicality of energy and food commodity prices influenced by global macroeconomic uncertainties, there is a need to provide appropriate measures for understanding predictive relationship between commodities. This study revisits dynamics oil using Shi et al. (J Financ Econom 18:158–180, 2020) bootstrapped time-varying Granger causality method identify date-stamp causal changes in effe...

in a crisis, daily life of people is threatened by disaster. the management of the crisis is both a science and an art in which attempts are made to restore the critical situation to a normal one, not necessarily to the same conditions which existed before the crisis took place. the ability of a manager to overcome the crisis depends on his readiness before it occurs. in this review article, th...

This study introduces and explains the model advanced quality management and comprehensive review of its role in the strategic transformation has been carried out. This article kind of research and development survey and its methodology is a library studies. Also, data collection is taking receipt. In literature, the subject of this article first principles of total quality management (TQM) hav...

Understanding urban growth is one with understanding how society evolves to satisfy the needs of its individuals in sharing a common space and adapting to the territory. We propose here a quantitative analysis of the historical development of a large urban area by investigating the spatial distribution and the age of commercial activities in the whole city of Rome. We find that the age of activ...

To clarify the social life factors affecting suicide mortality in Japanese men and women, the relationship between a wide variety of social and demographic indicators and age-adjusted suicide mortality was assessed in 46 prefectures in Japan by stepwise multiple-regression analysis after classification of the indicators by factor analysis. The findings indicated that rural residence was the maj...