lap lambert academic publishing feb 2011 (Oltre 2.100 risultati)

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Nigeria, a developing economy with huge population and economic potentials, is currently struggling with failed infrastructure and the current financial need for Nigeria''s infrastructural development is put at between US$10 and $15 Billion annually. The infrastructure decay has been a major factor responsible for the high cost of doing business in Nigeria. Securitisation is a financing technique which involves the process of converting cash- generating assets into securities to be offered to investors. Sovereign and sub-sovereign entities in both developing and developed countries have adopted and used securitisation as alternative vehicle for accessing finance to solve their capital development needs and it has remained a veritable tool for accessing cross- border finance especially in times of global financial crises. Nigeria is Africa''s largest producer of crude oil and with it current reserve of over 36 billion barrels, can effectively fund her infrastructure needs using securitisation. This will help achieve diversification of it economy with other short and long term micro and macroeconomic benefit.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 56 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -An organizational strategy to develop software has recently appeared in the market. Organizations release software source code open and hope to attract volunteers to improve their applications, forming what we call an open source project. Examples of organizations that have used this strategy include IBM (Eclipse), Google (Android) and Mozilla (Thunderbird). This phenomenon deserves attention for its usefulness to public and private organizations on saving costs and improving software services to the population. This book theoretically specifies and empirically tests a structural-causal model to explain how projects are populated and operate, consequently, impacting the qualities of the software produced and support provided by the project members. Specific advices to managers engaged in such strategies are provided.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 112 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The work analyzes the scope of the free movement of workers provisions focusing in particular on the notion of barrier to movement for the nationals of the third countries and the possible perspectives. The EU policy on legal and illegal migration is discussed and the legislation screened for identification of the possibilities for the workers from the third countries related to their free movement in the Member States with special focus on the Directive on the conditions for entry and residence of third-country nationals for the purposes of highly qualified employment (EU Blue Card). Special focus is dedicated to the European States,non-EU Members (Switzerland, Turkey, Moldova and Georgia). The work examines bilateral agreements existing between target countries and the EU on European Neighbourhood Policy and its Action Plan, ¿Mobility Partnership'', visa facilitation and readmission. Possible future development in the EU-Georgia relations, existing and ongoing bilateral relations with particular attention to the Georgian nationals as potential workforce for the EU labour market and their free movement in the Member States is discussed.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 64 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The study argues that the Kashmir dispute between India and Pakistan is neither an emotional issue nor purely an ideological tangle but equally, if not more so, an issue of realpolitik which is inherent in the nature of the territory of Kashmir. This dimension of the Kashmir dispute was overshadowed in the wake of the Indian move to raise the Kashmir issue at the UNSC in 1948. The importance of the territory lies in its wealth of water resources of the world''s mighty Indus River System comprising the Indus, Jhelum, Chenab, Ravi, Beas and Sutlej rivers, serving as the ¿jugular vein'' of Pakistan''s agrarian economy. India is not prepared to lose the upper- riparian status and Pakistan is fearful of its vulnerabilities. Kashmir issue is also a question of control of the life-giving rivers in upstream originating from the territory of Kashmir, parts of which were captured by both India and Pakistan in 1948. The study highlights the linkage of the Indus rivers resource with political thinking, strategic planning and warfare between India and Pakistan in the past and comprehends its future role in the security calculus of the region.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 100 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -A number of women were sexually enslaved by the Japanese military during the Second World War and were known as ''comfort women''. It is a wrongful action of the Japanese state in the past which still brings the international attention. In order to overcome the past, such wrong doings should be considered in the context of legal responsibility of the state. Legal responsibility is distinguished from moral responsibility; state responsibility differs from individual responsibility. Seeking the legal responsibility of the state is an important process to achieve proper justice in the international community.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 64 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, while giving new maritime rights and interests to states, does not break the existing maritime legal order or affect the vested maritime rights of the states. The systems of archipelagic waters, exclusive economic zone and continental shelf provided for by the Convention allow states to extend their sovereignty or sovereign rights to wider sea areas. However, states can extend their sovereign rights only to areas traditionally recognized as open seas and, in doing so, they may not infringe upon the vested territorial sovereignty or sovereign rights of other states. The various historical rights enjoyed by China over the South China Sea are vested rights that had been established long before the entry into force of the Convention.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 60 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Considering the current context of Bolivia, in which indigenous communities are receiving more attention in the policy making process regarding the distribution of lands, natural resource management and participation in development projects, the present document aims to analyze the effect of different political and socio-economic events, such as the change in policies regarding the Bolivian forest sector, in the Tacana community''s structure and cultural identity. I also pretend to show the potential that the Tacana communities still have regarding forest management, to go further in their development process and preserve their ethnical roots and forests. The conclusions of this work are mainly positive, showing that CBFM has a potential to bring development to indigenous communities, while preserving the environment, but there are still many obstacles and new aspects to be considered for future policy implementations, as well as a long way ahead for communities to obtain the expected benefit, without their culture and livelihoods being negatively affected.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 72 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book investigates the benefit of life settlements to a portfolio of investment securities. A life settlements is the secondary trade of an unneeded life policy. Unlike traditional securities, life settlements are not correlated to stock markets or interest rates. This book provides an extensive background on life settlements and empirically determined that a portfolio of investments including life settlements yields a higher return at a lower risk than a portfolio without life settlements. In addition, this book categorizes life settlements in order to explore differentiation opportunities within life settlements. By applying among others the concept of duration and convexity to life settlements, possible differences among life settlements can be identified. This is a relevant finding because it allows investors to apply duration as an additional criterion in selecting life settlements.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 72 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Arunachal Pradesh, a State in North East India, is well known for its biodiversity. Its rich flora and fauna are intricately related to the lives and traditions of the people of Arunachal. However, in recent year, along with economic development, government sponsored urbanization; technological development and the penetration of market have led to the growing depletion of common property resources which have far reaching consequences upon rural poverty and environmental degradation. This study attempts to quantify the importance of common property resources in the economy of Arunachal Pradesh and its impact to rural poverty and environmental degradation. The study also focuses on the participatory approach to resource management which is found to have the potentialities to provide sufficient incentive to the community members to use the resource base optimally and to reduce the problems of free-ridership and opportunism for its conservation. This book is expected to satisfy the needs of the students and scholars of Economics, Resources, Environment and Anthropology. Moreover, the findings of the study are expected to be useful to the academicians, planners and policy makers.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 116 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -CULTURAL TOURISM POLICIES IN GREECE Cultural tourism often uses the ancient cultural capital to achieve medium-term economic benefits. As with any other physical resource, tourism demand on cultural heritage may be excessive and thus negative. However, the interaction can be made beneficial, if well planned and managed. Cultural tourism provides new opportunities for wedding conservation to economic development. This monograph examines this question in Greece at a moment when tourism is considered a modern divinity and many qualitative values are sacrificed for it. The research takes a broad perspective, examining the nature of the relationship between tourism and ancient heritage, and investigates the possibilities of integrating cultural tourism in planning. It concludes with general guidelines for the decentralisation and democratic planning of cultural tourism activities and specific proposals for local organisation and management. The suggestions for local development have been developed through a case- study in Samos and the cultural tourism activities to enhance the potential of the Heraion heritage site.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 96 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -In a modern democracy, the act of legislation is of the utmost value because the law is the supreme authority. Principally, the primary authority for legislation in a democracy lies in the hands of the parliament. But the political power concentrated in the hands of the parties and the executive authority. This book contributes to the perception of the individual legislator as political initiator of legislation in modern parliamentarianism, and not only as a ''team player'' of his party. The important innovation of the book is that it examines the act of legislation not only as a judicial or procedural process, but as a process of political negotiation. This point of view gives a new perspective to the strategies and tactics in legislation process. The last chapter deals with the interactions of rhetoric, gender and politics. The research was conducted in the Israeli Parliament (Knesset), but the findings have universal applicability: Many of the phenomena and strategies discussed are familiar in most parliaments.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 120 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The book explores the portrayal of crime in Alice Walker''s works. It argues that in considering black crime in America especially vis-à-vis crime in general, there are considerations deriving their force from American history, in particular the slave history in America. The definition of morality and crime in the United States of America is a product of the Puritan values of its founding fathers and is therefore, skewed against black people whose enslavement they had to justify with plethora of negative stereotypes for centuries. So insidious are these stereotypes that even the best African American intellectual culture is entangled in the paradoxes and ambiguities of this legacy.Against this background, Alice Walker captures a wide range of crimes in the black community that can easily be construed as stereotypical. Readers interpret with the assumption that because Alice Walker writes these damning stereotypes, she does not believe in them. However, some readers believe them.The book argues that Walker tends to participate in churning out bourgeoisie middle class morality in the projection of African American lifestyle.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 108 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Nowadays the concept of development of an economy has changed totally ¿ now development means enlargement of human capabilities, i.e., human development, which depends on the improvement of quality of life of an economy. The growth of Gross National Product (GNP) or rise in personal income alone can not fully address the issue of human development. In this book the focus is on the components of quality of life and also on an appropriate method to quantify the quality of life of an economy. Hence here objective is to identify and illustrate the most important dimensions of human development and to critically judge different attempts that have been made to measure them through different indicators. And an observation is made on how the situation changes when political and civil rights and sustainability are included as major components with other socio- economic components in respect of East Asian and South Asian countries. Hence this book will be helpful for the research scholars in the field of Development Economics and since it is a multi- disciplinary analysis it is also helpful for the students of Social Studies.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 96 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The microfinance industry is developing and expanding at a fast pace; the formal banking industry has discovered the potential of offering microfinance related products and services and private investors are getting more and more interested in this industry. In hand with this development goes the development of the industry being criticized for not being that socially responsible as it pretends to be and being led by mission drift due to its increased emphasis on profitability. Worldwide alleviation of poverty, empowerment of women, job creation, education; this all sounds very rose-coloured, but what is the exact impact of these microfinance activities How do investors know which investments yield strong social returns To elaborate on this emerging concept, the importance of adopting a tool to measure the social performance of the microfinance industry will be highlighted. The results will not only help microfinance providers to better understand its products/services, clients and operations, but also aims at decreasing the knowledge gap regarding the relevance and impact of social performance measurements.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 108 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Most resettlement programmes are designed either for poverty reduction targeting the poor communities especially the landless and regional development targeting those with own resources to invest in Agricultural activities. The Voluntary Resettlement programme in Zambia has differentiation embedded in its process as people are not only allocated different plot sizes but accommodates different category of settlers with diverse access to resources. this book endeavors to highlight the precariousness of the situation as regards to who owns what, who gets what and how do settlers co-exist in terms of survival, consolidation and accumulation at farm household levelBooks on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 104 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The revolution in information and communication technologies is changing the way the governments (and local self-governments) interact with citizens and entrepreneurs, and other economic or non-governmental subjects. E-Government today means the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) to transform the relations between government and citizens in order to provide efficient, convenient and transparent services to citizens as well as entrepreneurs. Government transformation from department-centered to a citizen-centered way of working, demands the vision of government service accessibility to the common people in their locality, through simple service delivery output and ensuring efficiency, transparency and reliability of such services at affordable costs to meet the basic needs of a common man. Changing towards better effectiveness, governments should seek for models of administration that will be able to respond to the needs of citizens (clients) with a minimum response time, with thin and flat administration.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 108 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The study entitled 'Women Participation in Library Profession in Nepal: Their Status and Challenges ' focuses on those women who are in library profession. Besides that it has been included the consolidate number of women and their current status in library profession. Women have been played significant role in written history in different sector so, it is crucial job to find the women''s participation in library profession. Since the library profession is a noble profession. A dedicated service and strong sense of professional commitment are the need of hour to collect organize and dissemination of information.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 112 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This paper will investigate the effects of Indiäs global economic integration, especially trade liberalisation, by looking at the partial effects this reforms will have. Using these partial effects this paper will describe what the predicted effects will be according to two of the main results of the neo-classical trade theory, the Stolper-Samuelson theorem and the Heckscher-Ohlin theorem, and test whether these effects actually came true. This paper also describes the effects of the reforms concerning Poverty, Inequality, Foreign Direct Investments and the Information and Communication Technology sector. This paper provides results that support the Stolper-Samuelson theorem and a part of the Heckscher-Ohlin theorem and show some points of concern regarding poverty and inequality the Indian government has to deal with. These are also results that future liberalising countries should take into account when copying the Indian 1991 trade reforms.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 104 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -In an era driven by neoliberal and globalizing values and characterized by widespread youth distrust in the institutionalized politics, one could make the hypothesis that young people are finding alternative channels to voice their discontent and to challenge a society that is increasingly marginalizing them. These channels are more in agreement with XXI century youth''s codes and are untranslatable to the institutionalized political logic. It is the intention of this work to test this thesis with the hip hop movement in the city of El Alto-Bolivia. The socio-economic and cultural situation of the population of El Alto has changed the social and familial dynamics, pushing some of the youth inhabitants into the street reality where young people underwent new forms of socialization. This process of socialization has led young people to engage to the hip hop subculture. Hip hoppers have found in hip hop culture not only a source of identification but also a space from where they can voice their concerns and moreover, hip hop for the Alteños has become a political response to the changing and unequal local, national and international context.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 76 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book presents a theoretical model which tries to explain causes of business cycles ¿uctuations and which has its roots in the Post-Keynesian stream of economic thought. According to this model, investment shocks together with endogeneity of money causes business cycles ¿uctuations. This model is compared with existing New Keynesian models which assert that causes of business cycles ¿uctuations are monetary policy shocks together with various nominal and real rigidities. Author uses econometric techniques(impulse-response functions and forecast error variance decomposition) to investigate which phenomenon contributes more to business cycles ¿uctuations. Unfortunately, results do not enable to draw a straightforward conclusion. It seems that both phenomena play a certain role.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 92 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This study investigated and analyzed awareness of the virtual organization and the extent of its use by professionals and management personnel. It tried to find out the specific purposes for which the virtual organization is used and to determine the perception of a sector of professionals about its effect on their professions and personal development. The study also tried to identify the perception of the users as to whether dealing with this type of organization would conflict with any moral and ethical values. The study found a positive trend toward the use of the virtual organization among professionals and management personnel. Most of the respondents indicated that they are aware of the existence of the virtual organization and value it as important and advantageous to their professional careers. The majority of the respondents expressed concern about security in online transactions, but few expressed concerns about the moral and ethical aspects of virtual communication. The results shows more than 73% of the respondents regarded that using the virtual organization would not conflict with any moral and ethical values.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 88 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Farmer-owned cooperatives not only serve as a means of providing services and information to producers, but they can provide a mechanism for returning the earnings from marketing activities to producers and farm economies. Given the importance of member participation and member-management relations for the success of a cooperative, a survey was conducted in different four fruit and vegetable cooperatives of Chitwan during January-February, 2009 to assess how members perceive farmer-owned cooperatives in terms of the need for, role, and performance of a cooperative. Cooperative members'' beliefs, goals, concerns, and attitudes toward their cooperative organizations were examined. Altogether eighty members from four cooperatives were selected. In addition to target member producers, forty non-member producers in the study area were targeted to incorporate perceptions who might see cooperatives differently. Problem of inputs, training and unorganized market was of higher concern for the members. Lack of information and unavailability of cooperatives to sell whole produce were found as most prominent reasons of non-members for not joining the cooperatives.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 108 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The non-existence of harmonisation or equally working mechanisms in the EU narrow on one side the scope of insurance products available to the insured, and on the other side, make it complicated and cost intensive for the insurers to offer their products in different member states of the EU. This is critical regarding the increasing importance of (consumer) insurance in Europe. Solutions still being in the process of creation raise the question whether contemporary insurance laws are still so far apart of each other As a representative showcase the analysis covers the duty of good faith in English and German insurance contract law whereby the pre-reform law, the reformed law as well as the corresponding PEICL standard will be included. The comparison specially focuses on: the circumstances to be disclosed by the insured, the way in which the insurer''s questions and insurer''s answers are interpreted, the duration of the duty and the legal consequences of a breach in particular the legal rights available to the insurer. Anyone interested in or professionally involved with EU law especially insurance contract law should have a look into this exiting topic.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 52 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Globally and nationally, it has been widely acknowledged that SMMEs have a critical role to play in generating employment and developing human capital. These businesses contribute significantly to the growth of the national economy through the provision of services to consumers and other enterprises. Additionally, these SMMEs are not just providers of services to consumers; they also consume services from the suppliers of their products. In this regard, there is a symbiotic relationship that stimulates an upstream economic activity among suppliers and downstream among their consumers. This twin objective of promoting economic growth by creating employment and reducing poverty has remained a vital objective of the national government. In addition, a stable business environment is critical for these objectives to be realized. There are critical training needs for small business operators; Information Communication Technologies (ICT)are relevant in promoting SMME growth in the inner city, controlling crime in the Central Business District is critical, while assistance with tax registration and compliance is necessary for small businesses.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 60 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The aim of this research was to establish how brands can create an emotional relationship with users through the design of their products. Investigations into existing knowledge on brand, emotional design, and branding techniques employed by designers were conducted in the literature review. Further empirical investigations were undertaken to build on the findings presented in the literature. These findings however were with respect to objects in general, with further research required to investigate how branding could affect these findings. Current methods used by working product designers were also sought to compare against those presented in the literature.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 108 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This is an important topic and very relevant for Pakistan''s ongoing undeclared war. The work is grounded in the mainstream literature on international law and it elaborates different perspectives on international law. The historical development of the concept of preemptive self-defence under international law that is traced leaves no doubt that prevailing interpretations are in fact political interpretations of our existing legal framework justified by reliance on socially constructed natural law. This descriptive work exposes gaps in current international law that needs to be addressed for realities of our complex twenty- first century. Without such updating international law will continue to be a tool in the hands of the dominant and will not promote ethical and just practices, it intends to uphold. Dr. Robina Bhatti (Professor), Institute of Global Studies, California State University.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 104 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This work sets out to examine the status of the Hungarian language in Romania, and to analyze the origins, validity and meaning of the widespread view that it is in decline. It looks at daily use of the language and its role in public institutions, explores attitudes towards it amongst its users, and analyzes objectives and activities of a number of Hungarian minority organizations. Informed by work on minority culture in liberal democracies (Kymlicka, Cserg¿, Keller), I focus more particularly on issues of language dominance and predominance, language parity (Cserg¿, Mühlhäusler), language policy and planning (Bochmann, Bratt Paulston, Kloss, Toffelson), bilingualism and diglossia (Bourdieu, Grosjean, Bartha, Lambert, Ferguson, Fishman). The paper was researched in three sites. One is Tîrgu Mure¿/Marosvásárhely, a city in an area where Hungarians make up 39.30% and which is known also as ¿the Hungarian semi-block¿. The other two sites are diasporic communities where Hungarians make less than 20% of the population. One is village of R¿c¿¿tie/Rákosd in South Transylvania. The other is a number of villages inhabited by members of the Csango community in Bac¿u county.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 72 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -An efficient marketing system ensures higher level of income for the maize growers. It widens the markets for the products by taking them to remote corners of the country. Maize growers faced many problems in marketing of their produce. The problems in marketing arise due to lower prices, fluctuation in prices, and long marketing channels. The inefficiency in marketing system affects the income of the maize farmers. The income of the farmers totally depends on failure and success of this crop. The prices of the Maize - crop often less than other competing crops. This book focused on the marketing system,cost, margins,price spreads,market integration ,marketing issues and constraints, maize market information system and policy issues for market development.The subject matter of the book presented in simple language and with supporting latest data and research findings.The book is useful for policy makers,research students, agribusiness managers, agri-business and agri-processing organizations.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 100 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Growth, Unemployment and Poverty in Pakistan Growth is the most imperative and momentous apparatus for both developed and developing countries to trim down the fundamental problems of unemployment and poverty. Being a developing nation, Pakistan''s growth occurrence reveals fluctuation.This study attempts to evaluate empirically the role of growth on unemployment and poverty for Pakistan from 1972-2006. The sources of growth are the central character of all economic policies. The interaction between capital, labor, openness of trade, foreign direct investment and inflation have occurred significant position as factors of growth and these variables are used in this study. Not only growth but also pattern of growth is now become a highway towards the sustained growth and to minimize the crucial problems of unemployment. Unemployment is the wastage of valuable human resources. Unemployment makes severe the problem of poverty. This study is based on Two Stage Least Square. The empirical results show that growth has no significant impact on unemployment and poverty. Sustained growth with employment generation can minimize poverty.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 104 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -'Underdevelopment whirlpools' is a result of the loss of developing countries of a transaction factors system''s formation due to the time lags and the need to increase the system of transformation factors for innovative response to the rapidly evolving external environment''s impact. In Russian conditions 'underdevelopment whirlpools' arise as consequence of extensive model of development. Only the regions with fields of raw materials are not in 'underdevelopment whirlpools', the rest part of Russian territory is dragged into whirlpools of different depth. In this book, prepared for performing at the 6th International Scientific Conference: 'Economic forecasting: models and methods', we examine problems of economic growth of Russian regions. Treating this subject we emphasize problems of differentiation and disproportion of economic growth, determine perspectives of reducing the economic growth lag between regions of Russia and developed countries.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 68 pp. Englisch.