Today, agriculture remains the most distorted sector of the world economy. Therefore, agricultural liberalization in the Doha negotiations is rightly the top priority. But the public-policy discourse on the subject remains fogged by a number of fallacies. These fallacies probably originated with the leadership of the World Bank but have now been embraced by the IMF, OECD, Oxfam and the leading ...

Lesotho, a small, mountainous and resource poor country inside South Africa, has emerged as the largest and fastest growing exporter of apparel from Sub-Saharan Africa to the US. Its rapid manufacturing growth has been driven by inflows of export-oriented foreign direct investment. This paper explores this unusual experience against the setting of the dismal record of industrial growth and comp...

This paper tries to explain the temporal evolution of electronic commerce in a developed country. For this purpose, we evaluate the contribution of the size of the potential market represented by the community of Internet users to the development of electronic commerce, as well as of other determinant factors. The validation carried out, for the whole Spanish market and over a period of seven y...

The growth of e-commerce, a brand-new category networked economic activity, has significantly impacted the Internet's expansion. Also, people purchase and sell goods through Internet other informational networks. It contributed to development physical virtual economy. plays significant role in advancing rise digital industrialization, industrialization business, digitization government, enhance...

The principal nutritional problems of developed economies are related to the excessive and unbalanced intake of energy and nutrients. During the 20th century, as economies improved and food production became more efficient, conditions related to undernutrition were replaced by epidemics of coronary heart disease, certain cancers and other chronic conditions related to food overconsumption. In d...

Day 1, Tuesday, July 5, 1:00-2:30pm, Room A Systems Engineering I Underestimation in the ―When It Gets Worse Before it Gets Better‖ Phenomenon in Process Improvement Ricardo Valerdi and Braulio Fernandes Automation Tools Supporting the Development of Information Standards for Complex Systems Eric Simmon, Sam Dana, Arthur Griesser Use of Structured Total Approach in Developing a System for Emerg...