Large increases in international food
prices in 2007 and early 2008 have become a key concern for
policy makers in East Asia. The increases are likely to have
a significant impact on the living standards of many,
particularly the poor. By March 2008, dollar nominated world
This report on Albania urban sector
review focuses on trends and issues that have come to the
fore with rapid urbanization and with the recent
decentralization of major responsibilities to local
governments. Continuing the achievements and addressing the
This report assesses Sri Lanka's
experience with decentralization to date and discusses
options for decentralization and implications for service
delivery in three sectors: roads, solid waste and health.
The selected sectors illustrate the considerations relevant
The most striking fact about the
economic geography of the world is the uneven spatial
distribution of economic activity, including the coexistence
of economic development and underdevelopment. High-income
regions are almost entirely concentrated in a few temperate
Are the household characteristics that
are good for transition to a more diversified
market-oriented development process in Vietnam also
important for reducing poverty? Or are there tradeoffs? The
determinants of both poverty incidence and participation in
In a globalizing world, cities at or
near the apex of the international urban hierarchy are among
the favored few--New York, London, and Tokyo--that have
acquired large economic, cultural, and symbolic roles. Among
a handful of regions that aspire to such a role--such as
Central control of forests takes
management responsibility away from the communities most
dependent on them, inevitably resulting in tensions. Like
many African countries, Tanzania--which has forest or
woodland cover over 30-40 percent of its land--established
The author identifies conditions under
which the urban sector's share of the poor population
in a developing country will be a strictly increasing and
strictly convex function of its share of the total
population. Cross-sectional data afor 39 countries and
O ensino à distância está cada vez mais presente nas instituições de ensino, em todos os níveis, através da utilização cada vez mais frequente das capacidades disponibilizadas pelas novas tecnologias de informação e comunicação.
O lazer imprime no espaço uma dinâmica econômica com especificidades que está diretamente relacionada à sazonalidade característica das áreas que são destinadas para esse fim.
A internet representa hoje uma das principais ferramentas de pesquisa de mercado que os consumidores utilizam. Dentro do contexto turístico, por ser um serviço, os aspectos tangíveis são pontos fundamentais na análise e escolha do que consumir. Outro ponto relevante são os depoimentos que turistas inserem na internet sobre sua experiência em determinada viagem ou meio de hospedagem (MH).
Este artigo apresenta um levantamento realizado junto aos egressos do curso de turismo da Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora/MG, com intuito de descrever as percepções e expectativas dos graduados quanto à formação profissional e qualificação em turismo, antes, durante e após a sua formação superior, a fim de correlacionar estas informações à sua inserção e posição atual no mercado de trabalh