The various origins of the congestion and related labour issues at U.S. west coast ports aren't hard to spot; unfortunately, they are cumulative, with conflicting results. For example, growing international trade volumes in the WTO-driven (World Trade Organization) global economy, and larger ...
to take into account fundamental changes caused by, inter alia, natural disasters, conflicts and changes in global growth prospects or in the terms of trade, especially for commodity-dependent developing countries, as well as by the impact of developments in financial markets, and to co...
Increasing air travel, global mobility, health tourism, animal exports and international trade facilitate the spread of resistant organisms to countries worldwide [2]. Therefore, antimicrobial resistance is a global crisis that no single country can fight against, in isolation. The World Health ...
It is clear that statistical power analysis is relevant only to ABM respecting some conditions. First of all, the models under scrutiny have to be stochastic (see North and Macal2007, Sect. 2 for a comparison between deterministic and stochastic models). Second, the objective of the model sho...
US. steel demand, prices, domestic shipments, imports and industry profits were all strong in 2004, according to David Phelps, president of the American Institute for International Steel, commenting on the most recent and year-end import data released by the Department of Commerce. AIIS is a ...