The aim of this dissertation is to understand how two Portuguese SMEs in the agricultural sector, Adega Cooperativa Vidigueira, Cuba e Alvito (ACVCA) and Herdade Maria da Guarda (HMG), were able to internationalize their products and brands. Such analysis will explore the strate…
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An accurate short-term load forecasting (STLF) is one of the most critical inputs for power plant units’ planning commitment. STLF reduces the overall planning uncertainty added by the intermittent production of renewable sources; thus, it helps to minimize the hydro-thermal ele…
Global trade system is witnessing an unprecedented increase in food safety and quality standards. Changes in the structure of the world trade affect the welfare of farmers and consumers, destinations of exports, and the dynamics behind the exporters’ compliance decisions with th…
The Trade Related Property Rights (TRIPS) agreement which seeks to harmonize global intellectual property laws has been a major factor in strengthening worldwide property rights systems. However, since its formulation, the TRIPS agreement has been the subject of considerable con…
The Palestinian economy is a small open economy with poor endowments of natural resources and unmarked national borders. Almost 80% of its foreign trade is conducted with a single trading partner, Israel. It currently exports 17% of its output, which in turn finances only about …
The theory of comparative advantage recycling, or market recycling, refers to the process by which comparative advantages pass from nation to nation as each journeys toward higher stages of economic development. The questions addressed within this exposition are first, what is t…
Russia has not always been willing to cooperate with the United States in restricting the export of weapons-related technologies to “sensitive” states. Therefore, the United States must rely on positive and negative sanctions in an effort to coerce Russia. In some cases Russia h…
This study is an econometric analysis of causal relations between economic growth on the one hand and government expenditure, exports, investment and population on the other hand. It also investigates the trends in international inequality during 1960-92. In the case of GDP and …
This dissertation utilizes the latest econometric techniques to address three economic growth issues based on the experiences of selected Middle East and North Africa (MENA) economies. First, in chapter two we use the perpetual inventory method to construct series of physical ca…
The objective of this study is to examine the factors affecting live cattle basis and determine the impact meat exports and imports have on the wholesale prices of different meat types. Changes in farm programs and tightening cattle feeding margins make risk management an import…
Scope and method of study. The goal of this study is to investigate the roles of market structure and human capital in developing countries' (DC's) ability to expand exports of processed agricultural goods. The study provides three separate theoretical and empirical analyses bas…
The role of foreign direct investment (FDI) in the past two decades has become increasingly more important in Malaysia's economy. FDI was a distinct characteristic in that it represents an equity investment that is directly related to the creation of real new capacity and the or…
This thesis documents a study of the dimensions of export market orientationassociated with export performance. In particular, the research objective is toexamine empirically the development and support of a corporate exportmarket orientation and its successful implementation in…
This thesis examines the foundations of successfulmodern economic development in the European region of N.EItaly. The research explores the importance and role of acombination of urban and transport infrastructure, economic,social and institutional arrangements. These have beenc…
This thesis seeks to address the impact of China and India's economic emergence on Bangladesh through international trade. This phenomenon has further implications for Bangladesh due to the recent phasing-out of the Multi-Fibre Arrangement (MFA) and the importance of the textile…
The purpose of this thesis is to check for “Dutch Disease” in the Saudi Arabian economy over the period 1980–2001. Dutch Disease is the result of an exogenous increase in the price of that country's natural resource. Accordingly, a resource boom causes the output in the non-boom…
The first chapter of this thesis provides empirical evidence on the role of fundamentalists and technicians in determining the movement of the exchange rate for a currency which is pegged to a basket of currencies. This paper uses a new data set and a new fundamental variable. T…
Kuwait is an oil-based economy that adopts an export promotion policy as the fundamental strategy for economic growth. The country has experienced remarkable economic growth and high per capita GDP for the last four decades. The export-led growth (ELG) hypothesis has been common…
Malaysia is a developing country. Export has become one of the major incomes that contribute to Malaysia's economy. After the East Asian Financial crisis in 1998, to stabilize its economy, Malaysia's government pegged its currency at 3.8 (RM) to 1 (USD), and there was a signific…