“…Nonetheless, as apprentices become part of a firm’s workforce, they also generate a benefit from working productively. …”

“…Malaysia will also continue to benefit from a dynamic and rapidly integrating region, thereby retaining the attention of investors. …”

“…Southeast Asia’s booming economy offers tremendous growth potential, but also large and interlinked economic, social and environmental challenges. …”

“…This paper uses data derived from tax returns to analyse trends in the share of pre-tax personal income going to top income recipients. …”

“…A considerable housing boom has been a key feature of persistently large saving-investment imbalances in New Zealand over the past decade. …”

“…Chronic conditions have become progressively more important and are absorbing a growing share of health-care budgets. …”

“…Women business owners are creating new niches for entrepreneurial activity and have the potential to become key players in the new, knowledge-based economy. …”

“…The European Union Treaty of Lisbon brought a new dimension to cohesion – the territorial dimension, which has become one of the most frequently discussed aspects for achieving cohesion and, at the same time, one of the challenges for EU policies. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Assessment and recommendations -- Towards a resilient and integrated metropolitan economy -- Effective water governance: from instability to resilience -- Towards a competitive city-region -- Metropolitan governance: a goal in search of a model…”

“…Among them, the Climate Action Plan has the potential to guide the U.S. economy away from its reliance on fossil fuels and towards a more sustainable energy system. …”

“…Research areas were explored through a co-citation analysis and a map of science was generated to analyse how research areas were related to each other. …”

“…We find that, in the context of rising market-income inequality, tax-benefit systems have indeed become more redistributive since the 1980s but that this did not stop income inequality from rising: market-income inequality grew by twice as much as redistribution. …”

“…We shall explore these issues in the light of data collected in France, supplemented by selected data from other developed countries, and then move on to a comparison with a number of Mexican cities in order to consider the extent to which, and in what timeframe, these trends could spread southward to the emerging economies…”

“…More than 70% of CO2 emissions that arise from power generation are attributed to coal. …”

“…Today, corruption has moved to the top of the global political agenda as its dramatic impact on economic development and its corrosive effect on political stability and democratic political institutions has become increasingly obvious. In the new millennium, the OECD and associated governments, which account for over 75% of trade and investment world-wide, will play by stricter rules. …”

“…It is concluded that new ways of doing business where manufacturers build relationships with customers and compete on the basis of products they are willing to pay a premium for has the potential to become an important driving force for growth after the great recession, provided that adequate support from competitive services markets is in place…”

“…Developing countries with the largest numbers of aid projects have more than 2 000 in a single year. In parallel to this boom of aid projects, there has been a major shift towards social sectors and, as a consequence, these are the most fragmented. …”

“…The appropriate conclusion from the model is not that public spending is bad per se, but that cuts to lower-priority spending items can deliver surprisingly large income gains compared with the alternative of raising taxes…”

“…There is significant potential to reduce food waste further, however it is likely that this will become increasingly challenging…”

“…El Centro para la Cooperación con Países No Miembro (CCNM) promueve y coordina el diálogo político y la cooperación con las economías ubicadas fuera del área OCDE…”