... and 1995, and at the same rate again from 1995 through the first quarter of 1999. Electronic Commerce in theDigitalEconomy Page 1343"GDP andtheDigital Economy: Keeping Up With the ... both the Census Bureau and BEA include plans to work more closely with the privatesector to better understand the impacts of thedigitaleconomy on process changes and output. In addition, the ... definitions, and methodology see http://www.nua.ie/surveys.5 The Nordic countries are Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden, plus the three autonomous territories ofGreenland, the Faroe Islands,...
... prohibited.sector. TheDigitalEconomy will also facilitate solutions and opportunities forthese organizations to resolve and manage the new risks. These changes in the nature of the business operations and ... many of the demands placed onthem by the rate of change in thedigital economy. An example has been the slow responsiveness of the Chinese authorities, both nationally and locally, to the changing ... RISKRESOLUTION AND RISK MANAGEMENTWITHIN THEDIGITALECONOMY The developments of theDigitalEconomy are likely to fundamentally alter the basis of competition for organizations and enhance their risk...
... and their applications. The pace of the revolutionary changes in the ICTs and their applications and theirimpacts, influences and challenges are more pronounced in the developed countries. The ... external changes due to theemerging e-commercetechnologies. They influence the way in which enterprises position themselves in the market andthe way they collaborate with others. These new technologies ... countries. The rest of the world is also catching up with them fast in thedigital stakes.Public policy makers in both the developed countries andthe rest of the world and administrators, who...
... with the parts of theeconomy that are ourishing— the digital marketplace andtheemerging world. This creates a virtuous circle that is propelling thedigital marketplace in both emergingand ... appliances and other products and services, both online and ofine. At the same time, they are also altering their lifestyles and improving their education. “Consumer attitudes in theemerging ... nance and operations. We thank all the executives who took part in both the survey andthe qualitative research. We also thank AT&T and Cisco for the use of their Telepresence suites and...
... information, computing and communication in the recent pasthas greatly influenced the world economy. In theemergingdigital economy, ” the players as well as the rules of the game are changing ... and streamline com-munication process across the business network.On the other hand are the businessmen who understand the learning organizationconcept and develop a forward orientation. They ... to the periphery due to theirinappropriate education or skills. They are further marginalized as the gap in the knowledge attained between themselves and those in the formal sectors (using the Internet...
... toachieve the stated policy goals, objectives and targets. Some of these can be realisedonly in the long run; some in the medium term, and others in the short term. As it isalways the case, the realisation ... accessibility and availability.ii. Exploit fully and sustainably the natural resources andthe environment inorder to boost the economy. iii. Expand the agricultural production to meet the increasing ... ever expanding and appreciation of the role of the sameviii. Bolstering successes registered due to implementation of 1992 Population policy and other concomitant policies1.1.2 Thepolicy also...
... www.hsrcpress.ac.za Trends andPolicy Challenges in the Rural Economy According to the respondent small-scale farmers, the previous government divided their land into trust land and communal land. The farmers ... from the community did not respect other people’s land, and grazed their cattle on the land of others. Some would also claim that they had lost their livestock as a pretext for letting their ... land in the west of the Cape Colony (as it then was) fell under settler control. This provided the underpinnings for the development, over the years, of a settled and distinct white rural landed...
... introduced. ã They decried the fact that their daughters were being given grants which they used for their own personal interest, rather than the children. The grandchildren ended up being their liability.ã ... risk and uncertainty and raised direct and indirect costs at home. Fourth, the transition to democracy has itself impacted powerfully on producers, and on their perceptions of themselves and their ... Following 1994, the bulk of the land could not be made the subject of a restitution claim as the land was taken away before 1913. As a result, the land had to be returned by means of the redistributed...
... shall then map and analyse the building of knowledge clusters and, finally, evaluate the impact of cluster formation on knowledge production. Given the importance of the water sector in the Mekong ... routes and ports in the Mekong Delta. Interestingly, the 600km waterway network links Ho Chi Minh City with Can Tho City and Ca Mau, the most southerly part of Vietnam, on the one hand, and Ho ... most effective policy on the way towards a knowledge-based economyand society. The Epistemic Landscape of Ho Chi Minh City andthe Mekong Delta Our field research mainly covers the south of...
... 1996–8).1 The POLOS project, which was directed by the editor of this book, sought to analyseglobal and regional solutions in the law of the sea and ocean policy as these relateto the Arctic Ocean and ... legislation, and geographic placement. There is Australia, with its interests and legislationlinked primarily to the Antarctic, and Canada for the Arctic. Then there is the ‘bi-polar’ case of the United ... years.30On the other hand, some uses of the two polar oceans are similar innature, shipping being the most important among these; ice conditions prevail inboth the Arctic andthe Southern Oceans.31However,...