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  • Policy Monitoring on Accessible Technology for Inclusive Education – Research Findings and Requirements for a Software Tool

    Publikacja

    - Journal of Computer Science and Technology - Rok 2016

    Statistics about disabled people usually do not receive as much attention as statistics highlighting other socio-economic problems. However, such statistics is important due to its actual weight.According to the World Health Organization (WHO), about 15% of the world population, meaning one billion people, live with disabilities, and 80% of them live in developing countries. UNESCO claims that 90% of the children with disabilities...

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  • Top 10 Iran Export Partners in 2011

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    Lifting of Iranian sanctions could lead to a rapid improvement in the economic situation of Iran. This will not only remove the barriers of international transactions, but also enable the investments of foreign entities on the territory of Iran, increasing the competitiveness of operators, including in the key mining sector.

  • MACRO MODEL OF SEAT BELT USE BY CAR DRIVERS AND PASSENGERS

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    The article presents some problems of seat belt use by car drivers and passengers. It looks in particular at seat belt use and effectiveness in selected countries. Next, factors of seat belt use are presented and methodology of model development. A macro model of seat belt use is presented based on data from around fifty countries from different continents.

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  • Ewa Lechman prof. dr hab.

    EWA LECHMAN (ur. 24 III 1977 Katowice), ekonomistka, profesor ► Politechniki Gdańskiej (PG). Córka Andrzeja i Anny. W 1996 absolwentka III Liceum Ogólnokształcącego im. Adama Mickiewicza w Katowicach. Do 2001 studiowała na Wydziale Ekonomii ► Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego (UG) na kierunku ekonomia, w specjalności polityka gospodarcza i strategia przedsiębiorczości. Studia ukończyła obroną pracy magisterskiej o przystąpieniu Meksyku do...

  • Upward convergence patterns in chosen environmental-related SDGs

    Publikacja

    - ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS - Rok 2024

    Sustainable development is a challenge facing humanity. EU countries not only strive to reach their specific objectives, but they also work collaboratively towards shared goals. There is a need to balance synergies and compromises to address these objectives effectively. When discussing countries' development and people's well-being, one often focuses on socio-economic development. However, it is crucial not to overlook the environmental...

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  • Verwandlungen der polnischen Städte- vor der postsozialistischen Stadt zur Stadt der Globalisierungszeit

    Publikacja

    - Rok 2008

    W artykule przedstawiono - na tel współczesnych tendencji urbanizacyjnych - ewolucję miasta polskiego - od struktury post-socjalistycznej do miasta doby globalizacji.

  • The role of investments in economic development

    Publikacja

    - Rok 2009

    In the modern world, one may observe diversification of economies of given countries. Many of them, considered to be less developed,are aspiring to diminish the gap between them and well developed countries, one of such countries is Poland, which is trying hard to boots its competitive position in the worldwide market and achieve the constant and well-balanced development. It can be attained by building knowledge economy. Therefore,...

  • POLAND European Union

    The International Society of City and Regional Planners (ISOCARP) took an initiative to illustrate the processes of the spatial development of the member countries in the International Manual of Planning Practice (IMPP). The innovative aspect of this unique source of information is to emphasize the relationship between the planning system and its application in practice. The book consists of a concise synthesis of planning systems...

  • Nadaf, Z. A. PhD and Post Doctorate

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  • Joint Analysis of National Eco-Efficiency, Eco-Innovation and SDGs in Europe: DEA Approach

    The growing complexity and intertwining of different socio-economic issues both in individual countries and internationally mean that single-theme analyses do not consider all the relationships and thus have cognitive limitations. Therefore, studies that combine several research areas are increasingly common in the literature to clarify the connections and relationships. In this study, considering the sequential nature of the...

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  • Metropolitan dimension of Tri-City: Development of the new harbor structures

    Publikacja

    - Rok 2016

    This article deals with the phenomenon of urban waterfront transformation. The special focus is on the Tri-City area in Poland. Both the transformation of port structures and redevelopment of the post-harbor areas are presented.

  • state aid for projects on heritage conservation

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    The dataset encompassed a choice of the most important legal acts in EU law, a list of selected bibliography, together with a list of some interesting individual EC decisions issued on the topic of state aid for heritage conservation in Poland and some UE countries in the period 2007-2013. The reader gets the possibility to acquire basic information...

  • Electromagnetic plane wave scattering from a cylindrical object with an arbitrary cross section using a hybrid technique

    A hybrid technique combining finite-element and mode-matching methods for the analysis of scattering problems in open and closed areas is presented. The main idea of the analysis is based on the utilization of the finite-element method to calculate the post impedance matrix and combine it with external excitation. The discrete analysis, which is the most time- and memory-consuming, is limited here only to the close proximity of...

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  • Patterns of Business Internationalisation in Poland: Empirical Results from the V4 Survey

    Publikacja

    - Rok 2014

    The chapter focuses on the specifics of internationalisation process among Polish businesses at post-slowdown period of the turn of 2013-2014. The main research method was the survey conducted among 216 firms.

  • Can unequal distributions of wealth influence vote choice? A comparative study of Germany, Sweden and the United States.

    Publikacja

    - Rok 2019

    It is widely accepted that income influences voting behavior. Does wealth? Is the effect similar across countries? Studies of wealth and voting behavior have not existed until recently, in part because of the absence of data on wealth holdings. The findings in this chapter indicate that wealth is related to voting behavior in some countries but not in others. The chapter models the effects of wealth on one form of voting behavior,...

  • Spatial differences in sustainable development components in Nordic regions

    Publikacja

    - Rok 2017

    Geographical proximity, common historical roots and collaboration within the Nordic Council make the Nordic countries, often wrongly treated as monoliths. How ever, in reality, Nordic regions differ in terms of broadly defined socio - economic development. The aim of this study is to analyze the spatial differences in sustainable development components in Nordic NUTS - 3 regions in the period 2006 - 2014....

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  • Javed Ather Siddiqui DR.

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    I AM PSYCHATRIST,WANTS TO BRING SMILE ON THE FACES OF MENTALLY ILL PATIENTS. I LOVE MY PROFESSION AND WANT TO FACE CHALLENGES FOR SAKE OF THE PATIENTS. I EARNED POST GRADUATE DEGREE FROM MUMBAI UNIVERSITY AT G S SRTH MEDICAL COLLEGE AND KEM HOSPITAL, MUMBAI, INDIA. I HAVE OVER 20 YEARS OF MENTAL HEALTH EXPERIENCE. I HAVE WORKED IN VARIETY OF CLINICAL SETTINGS THAT HAVE INCLUDED DRUG DEADDICTION, CHILD, ADOLESCENT, GERIATRIC AND...

  • Comprehensive evaluation of the carbon footprint components of wastewater treatment plants located in the Baltic Sea region

    Publikacja

    - SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT - Rok 2022

    Finland and Poland share similar environmental interests with regard to their wastewater effluents eventually being discharged to the Baltic Sea. However, differences in the influent wastewater characteristics, treatment processes, operational conditions, and carbon intensities of energy mixes in both countries make these two countries interesting for carbon footprint (CF) comparison. This study aimed at proposing a functional...

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  • Functional specialisation and economic upgrading in GVCs

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    The dataset collected for selected Central Eastern European (CEE) countries (CZE, EST, HUN, LVA, LTU, POL, SVK, SVN) contains country-level and sector-level observations for the project implementation linked to the concept of functional specialization of economies. The aim of the project is to identify patterns of functional specialisation in global...

  • Age management in the Baltic Sea Region

    Publikacja

    - Rok 2011

    This chapter takes a broader view on the issues connected with age management. In its first part, some demographic processes in the European Union countries are described. Those processes contribute to the ageing of the society and an increasing need for age management at various levels. Furthermore, situation in selected Baltic Sea Region countries is presented. In the next section, age management from organizational perspective...

  • Top 10 Iran Import Goods in 2011

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    The following dataset shows the volume of trade of the European Union countries with Iran. One can observe a significant drop in both imports and exports (the year 2012 meant tightening of sanctions, which clearly limited the import of Iranian products to the EU). After lifting the sanctions it is expected to substantially increase the level of trade...

  • Total Goods: EU Trade flows and balance with Iran, 2005-2015 (in millions of USD).

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    The following dataset shows the volume of trade of the European Union countries with Iran. One can observe a significant drop in both imports and exports (the year 2012 meant tightening of sanctions, which clearly limited the import of Iranian products to the EU). After lifting the sanctions it is expected to substantially increase the level of trade...

  • state aid for export activities

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    The dataset encompassed a choice of  the most important legal acts, a list of selected Polish and foreign bibliography, together with a list of important individual EC decisions issued on the topic of state aid for export credits in Poland and some UE countries in the period 2001-2019. Thanks to that the reader gets the possibility do acquire basic...

  • Spotkanie naukowe w ramach Rethinking Economics Gdańsk

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    18-03-2021 18:00 - 18-03-2021 19:30

    Profesor Erik S. Reinert wygłosi wykład na temat: "What causes economic development to be so uneven between countries? Theoretical and Historical Perspectives." 18 marca 2021, o godz. 18:00 na platformie Zoom.

  • O obliczaniu kablobetonowych ciągłych dźwigarów mostowych

    Publikacja

    - Inżynieria i Budownictwo - Rok 2016

    Przedstawiono analityczną metodę obliczania kablobetonowych ciągłych dźwigarów z wykorzystaniem metody sił. Podano przykład analizy zrealizowanego kablobetonowego wiaduktu o schemacie dwuprzęsłowej belki ciągłej. Porównano wyniki obliczeń analitycznych i numerycznych (model belkowy, program Sofistik).

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  • Magdalena Szuflita-Żurawska

    Magdalena Szuflita-Żurawska jest kierownikiem Sekcji Informacji Naukowo-Technicznej na Politechnice Gdańskiej oraz Liderem Centrum Kompetencji Otwartej Nauki przy Bibliotece Politechniki Gdańskiej. Jej główne zainteresowania badawcze koncentrują się w obszarze komunikacji naukowej oraz otwartych danych badawczych, a także motywacji i produktywności naukowej. Jest odpowiedzialna między innymi za prowadzenie szkoleń dla pracowników...

  • Supplementary material for: Fungal Planet description sheets: 1478–1549

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    • E.  Osieck
    • R.  Shivas
    • Y.  Tan
    • S.  Bishop-Hurley
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    • E.  Larsson
    • J.  Luangsa-ard
    • F.  Pancorbo
    • S.  Balashov
    • I.  Baseia
    • T. iuribaseia@gmail.com
    • S.  Chandranayaka
    • D.  Cowan
    • R.  Cruz
    • P.  Czachura
    • S.  De la Peña-Lastra
    • F.  Dovana
    • B.  Drury
    • J.  Fell
    • A.  Flakus
    • R.  Fotedar
    • Ž.  Jurjević
    • A.  Kolecka
    • J.  Mack
    • G.  Maggs-Kölling
    • S.  Mahadevakumar
    • A.  Mateos
    • S.  Mongkolsamrit
    • W.  Noisripoom
    • M.  Plaza
    • D. Overy
    • M.  Piatek
    • M.  Sandoval-Denis
    • J.  Vauras
    • M.  Wingfield
    • S.  Abell
    • A.  Ahmadpour
    • A.  Akulov
    • F.  Alavi
    • Z.  Alavi
    • A.  Altés
    • P.  Alvarado
    • G.  Anand
    • N.  Ashtekar
    • B.  Assyov
    • G.  Banc-Prandi
    • K.  Barbosa
    • G.  Barreto
    • J.  Bellanger
    • J.  Bezerra
    • D.  Bhat
    • P.  Bilański
    • T.  Bose
    • F.  Bozok
    • J.  Chaves
    • D.  Costa-Rezende
    • C.  Danteswari
    • V. Darmostuk
    • G.  Delgado
    • S.  Denman
    • A.  Eichmeier
    • J.  Etayo
    • G.  Eyssartier
    • S.  Faulwetter
    • K.  Ganga
    • Y.  Ghosta
    • J.  Goh
    • J.  Góis
    • D.  Gramaje
    • L.  Granit
    • M.  Groenewald
    • G.  Gulden
    • L.  Gusmão
    • A.  Hammerbacher
    • Z.  Heidarian
    • N.  Hywel-Jones
    • R.  Jankowiak
    • M.  Kaliyaperumal
    • O.  Kaygusuz
    • K.  Kezo
    • A.  Khonsanit
    • S.  Kumar
    • C.  Kuo
    • T.  Laessøe
    • K.  Latha
    • M.  Loizides
    • S.  Luo
    • J.  Maciá-Vicente
    • P.  Manimohan
    • P.  Marbach
    • P.  Marinho
    • T.  Marney
    • G.  Marques
    • M.  Martín
    • A.  Miller
    • F.  Mondello
    • G.  Moreno
    • K.  Mufeeda
    • H. Mun
    • T.  Nau
    • T.  Nkomo
    • A.  Okrasińska
    • J.  Oliveira
    • R.  Oliveira
    • D.  Ortiz
    • J.  Pawłowska
    • M.  Pérez-De-Gregorio
    • A.  Podile
    • A.  Portugal
    • N.  Privitera
    • K.  Rajeshkumar
    • I.  Rauf
    • B.  Rian
    • A.  Rigueiro-Rodríguez
    • G.  Rivas-Torres
    • P. Rodriguez-Flakus
    • M.  Romero-Gordillo
    • I.  Saar
    • M.  Saba
    • C.  Santos
    • P.  Sarma
    • J.  Siquier
    • S.  Sleiman
    • M.  Spetik
    • K.  Sridhar
    • M.  Stryjak-Bogacka
    • K.  Szczepańska
    • H.  Taşikn
    • D.  Tennakoon
    • D.  Thanakitpipattana
    • J.  Trovão
    • A.  Türkekul
    • A.  van Iperen
    • P.  van 't Hof
    • G.  Vasquez
    • C.  Visagie
    • B.  Wingfield
    • P.  Wong
    • W.  Yang
    • M.  Yarar
    • O.  Yarden
    • N.  Yilmaz
    • N.  Zhang
    • Y.  Zhu
    • J.  Groenewald

    Novel species of fungi described in this study include those from various countries as follows: Australia, Bolivia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Denmark, Ecuador (Galapagos), Finland, France, India, Iran, Israel, Italy, Namibia, Netherlands, Norway, Pakistan, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, Taiwan region...

  • IS THE REGIONAL DIVERGENCE A PRICE FOR THE INTERNATIONAL CONVERGENCE? THE CASE OF THE VISEGRAD GROUP

    The main goal of this article is to verify whether the Visegrad Group countries are achieving social convergence at national level at the expense of internal divergence. For this purpose, the existence of social beta-, sigma- and gamma-convergence at national and regional level was tested. The author of this article decided to tackle the convergence problem since there is a high risk that countries are trying to catch up at...

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  • Białowieża primeval forest as an example of transfrontier co-operation between Poland and Bielarus

    Publikacja

    - Rok 2010

    The Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs is completing their work on the agreement on local border traffic (May 2009.) At the final stage of the works, the list of the towns and villages situated within the area covered by the so-called "local traffic" on both the Polish and the Belarusian sides of the border is being verified. The "border belt" area, whose residents will be able to move between the bordering countries under the...

  • The EU enlargement and domestic employment

    Publikacja

    - Economics Bulletin - Rok 2009

    The study focuses on the interactions between EU member states' labor markets (manufacturing and tradable business services) over the period 1995-2005. We use recently released detailed sector level employment statistics, considering the effects of trade integration on the creation of links between labor force in ''Old'' and ''New'' partners in the enlarged EU. Empirical estimations show that the domestic demand for labor in the...

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  • Relative Productivity, Country Size and Export Diversification

    This paper analyses the effects of productivity and country size on the extent of trade structure diversification. Using a testable version of the Ricardian model, we show that relative export variety is an outcome of two forces: a relative productivity change (technological progress) and a relative country size change (labour force growth). The model predictions are validated empirically using product-level trade data for a sample...

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  • The impact of ICTs on women’s economic empowerment

    Publikacja

    - Rok 2016

    It is widely argued that ICTs enable the inclusion of low-skilled and traditionally marginalized groups, such as women, people with disabilities, and workers at the base of the pyramid (BoP), in the labor market. In this paper, we investigate the determinants of female participation in the labor market in developing countries with a focus on the impact of the use of ICTs on female labor force participation. We conduct a panel study...

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  • COMPARATIVE ANALYSES OF INTERNATIONALIZATION OF KAZAKHSTAN ENTERPRISES

    This paper presents the instruments of internationalization of enterprises operating within the Eurasian Economic Union. Research contains answers of 108 enterprises exporters located in the Republic of Kazakhstan. The purpose of the paper is to show the main forms of the internationalization of enterprises in Kazakhstan. The paper also presents the following instruments of enterprises’ internationalization including: indirect...

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  • The analysis of the conditions for best practices’ transfer

    Publikacja

    One of the tasks of the Project Partners was identifying best practices in strengthening the economic activity of women and older people in the context of developing the competitiveness and innovation of SMEs, as well as determining the possibilities and conditions of their transfer. Transfer in this case is understood as the implementation of selected and described solutions in enterprises and public organizations from all the...

  • The Impact of ICTs on Women’s Economic Empowerment

    Publikacja

    - Rok 2017

    It is widely argued that ICTs enable the inclusion of low-skilled and traditionally marginalized groups, such as women, people with disabilities, and workers at the base of the pyramid (BoP), in the labor market. In this paper, we investigate the determinants of female participation in the labor market in developing countries with a focus on the impact of the use of ICTs on female labor force participation. We conduct a panel study...

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  • Współczesne trendy zmian w strukturze i funkcjonowaniu miast

    Publikacja

    - Rok 2013

    Praca dotyczy podstwowych zagadnień związanych ze współczesnymi przeobrażeniami miast. Na bazie omówienia sytuacji w innych krajach opisuje trendy i sytuacje występujące w mieście post-socjalistycznym

  • Polyurethane-wood composites (PU-WC) as a method of wood waste management

    Publikacja

    In recent years, due to the progressive environmental degradation and increase of environmental awareness, the sustainability of production systems in wood processing, the wood industry, and wood waste management is a crucial issue for European industry and society. Consequently, the problem of generating wood-like waste and the associated risks has become an increasingly noticeable challenge for science. Although various methods...

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  • Understanding the Ukrainian Migrants Challenges in the EU: A Topic Modeling Approach

    Publikacja

    - Rok 2024

    Confronted with the aggression against Ukraine in 2022, Europe faces one of the most important humanitarian challenges - the migration of war refugees from Ukraine, most of them women with children and the elderly. Both international institutions such as the European Union and the United Nations, but also national governments and, above all, local governments, which are the main providers of services and resources for refugees,...

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  • State aid for shipyards

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    The dataset encompassed a choice of the most important legal acts, a list of selected Polish bibliography and a list of important individual decisions issued on the topic of state aid for shipyards in Poland and in selected UE countries. The data constitute a description of the basic state aid instruments used in practise in the period 1999-2018, but...

  • State Interventionism in Tax System - Example of Action in a COVID-19 Crisis

    The following article presents and classifies changes in tax systems of selected countries as well as counts them as the response to the emergence of the crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Such actions were undertaken the context of state interventionism in the tax system. In order to achieve the objective of presenting the state interventionism in the context of tax rates, an analysis of the literature on the phenomenon described,...

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  • The added value of using the HEPA PAT for physical activity policy monitoring: a four-country comparison

    Publikacja
    • P. Gelius
    • S. Messing
    • S. Forberger
    • J. Lakerveld
    • F. Mansergh
    • W. Wendel-Vos
    • J. Żukowska
    • C. Woods

    - Health Research Policy and Systems - Rok 2021

    Background Public policy is increasingly recognized as an important component of physical activity promotion. This paper reports on the current status of physical activity policy development and implementation in four European countries based on the Health-Enhancing Physical Activity Policy Audit Tool (HEPA PAT) developed by WHO. It compares the findings to previous studies and discusses the general utility of this tool and its...

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  • Remote Sensing Methods In the Study of the Impact of Long-Term Process of Sulphur Mining on Environmental Changes of the Carpathian Foreland

    Publikacja

    - Rok 2017

    The paper presents research on the extent of impact of sulphur mining process and post-mining activities upon properties of selected elements of the environment, as well as the assessment of the influence of indirect effects resulting from many years' process of exploitation of sulphur deposits in the areas of the Carpathian Foreland (south-east Poland). Within the scope of research conducted, the assessment of the extent of...

  • Efficiency of European public higher education institutions: a two-stage multicountry approach

    The purpose of this study is to examine efficiency and its determinants in a set of higher education institutions (HEIs) from several European countries by means of non-parametric frontier techniques. Our analysis is based on a sample of 259 public HEIs from 7 European countries across the time period of 2001-2005. We conduct a two-stage DEA analysis (Simar and Wilson in J Economet 136:31-64, 2007), first evaluating DEA scores...

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  • Hold-Up Problems in International Gas Trade: A Case Study

    Publikacja

    - ENERGIES - Rok 2021

    The infrastructure required for international natural gas trade is considerable, which often leads to hold-up problems and supply disruptions. This study discusses disruptions of gas supply from Algeria, Indonesia, Russia, and Turkmenistan since the early 1980s. The novelty of this study is its focus on the issues related to transit countries, which are rarely considered in the literature. The results of the study classify supply...

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  • Export diversification and dependence on natural resources

    Publikacja

    Low export diversification is a risk-augmenting factor for many countries dependent on natural resources. The literature tends to focus on the growth effects of resource dependence (‘resource curse’ debate) while not much is known on how it affects the variety of non-resource exports. To quantify this effect we decompose the relative Theil index using product-level export data from 160 countries over the time period 1996–2018....

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  • Political relations between Poland and the Republic of Azerbaijan

    Poland was one of the first countries to recognize the independence of the Republic of Azerbaijan. However, the political co-operation between the two countries was established only at the end of the last decade of the 20th century, during the presidency of Aleksander Kwaśniewski. The next Polish president – Lech Kaczyński – intending to diversify the energy sources, maintained political relations between Poland and the Republic...

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  • Katarzyna Kubiszewska dr

    Katarzyna Kubiszewska pracuje w Katedrze Finansów o 2008 r. i prowadzi zajęcia z finansów i bankowości. W pracy naukowej interesuje się transformacją systemów bankowych w regionie Europy Centralno - Wschodniej, ale także finansowaniem sektora kultury. Publikacje dotyczą dziedziny nauk społecznych w zakresie dyscypliny ekonomia i finanse. Od 2019 r. współpracuje z czasopismami takimi jak Economic Research-Ekonomska Istrazivanja,...

  • Management of Dark Fermentation Broth via Bio Refining and Photo Fermentation

    Lignocellulose and starch-based raw materials are often applied in the investigations regarding biohydrogen generation using dark fermentation. Management of the arising post-fermentation broth becomes a problem. The Authors proposed sequential processes, to improve the efficiency of both hydrogen generation and by-products management carried under model conditions. During the proposed procedure, the simple sugars remaining in...

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  • Technology convergence and digital divides. A country-level evidence for the period 2000–2010

    The paper, mostly empirical in nature, investigates issues on cross-national new information and communication technologies (ICTs) adoption patterns and growth directions. In the period of 2000–2010, a great number of countries underwent substantial changes on the field of ICTs implementation. Many of them made a great “jump” starting with almost “zero level” of ICTs adoption in the year 2000 and during the ten- year period were...

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  • VAT rates in particular member states of the European Union in 2015

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    Under European Union law, the minimum standard rate of VAT that Member States can apply is 15%. An upper limit has not been specified. Despite attempts to harmonize the value added tax rates, the range of tax rates applied between countries is large. Currently, Luxembourg uses the lowest standard rate (15%), and Hungary uses the highest (27%). Due to...