This article contrasts the World Bank's policy-oriented, standardized assessment of the business climate and small business in Tajikistan with an alternative, bottom-up reading of local entrepreneurship focused on the life stories and business experiences of the young Tajik business community. It shows that the World Bank's business evaluations and...
This paper reviews the research literature analysing the uneven geographical distribution of cultural industries across the global urban system. We begin by discussing the two major conceptual links between cultural industries and urban economies: (1) production processes becoming more flexible and specialised, and (2) the symbolic‐oriented and pla...
Raw Materials are crucial in the development, production, and improvement of modern-day technology. Reliable access to critical, scarce, and valuable materials used in electronics is becoming a worldwide concern. Therefore, the quantification of material recovery from the urban mine is currently pursued worldwide. Commonly, data on (Waste) Electric...
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Land is a scarce resource and its depletion is related to a combination of demographic and economic factors. Hence, the changes in dietary habits and increase in world population that upturn the food demand, are intertwined with a context of increasing oil prices and rise of green capitalism that in turn impacts the demand in biofuel. A visible ind...
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This paper assesses the potential of the circular economy (CE) policy ambitions of the port cities of Ghent (Belgium) and Amsterdam (The Netherlands). Both Ghent and Amsterdam are municipalities that potentially lend themselves ideally to set up a more local-oriented circular (re)production and (re)consumption system. Subsequently, both have the am...
Sous l’effet du vieillissement de la population et des dynamiques sociales et sanitaires, les besoins de prise en charge des personnes âgées en perte d’autonomie progressent, se complexifient et se diversifient. Ces évolutions invitent à s’interroger sur les réponses apportées à la fois par la sphère privée et par la sphère publique. Les politiques...
В статье рассмотрены основные проблемы России, связанные с глобализацией экономических процессов. Интеграция экономик различных государств несмотря на плюсы, имеет существенные минусы. Обозначены вопросы, отражающие основные противоречия глобализации как экономического процесса. Исходя из анализа ситуации, обозначены возможные тенденции развития эк...
