This issue of Apstract consists of eleven papers.
Two papers relate to macro-economic issues. One paper is a note on the
Dutch disease in which a simple macro-economic trade model is used to analyse
the resource curse, whereas the other paper.
Investigates the relationship between the global innovation index on the
one hand and, on the other hand, GDP per capita, life expectancy and human
development index.
Two papers discuss general issues with respect to behaviour of suppliers.
The relationship between corporate corporate governance and corporate social
responsibility is the topic of a literature study. The other paper investigates,
by means of desk research the possibility of using drones to improve the
performance of agriculture in Mongolia.
Four papers relate to agricultural firms. Credit access of cocoa farmers in
the Ahafo region in Ghana is the topic of the first paper whereas an agriculturaltechnical
analysis of the production of maize in Hungary is performed in the
second paper. The two other papers to other issues. One paper pays attention to
the water requirements for some selected crops in southern Italy, and the one
to the employee turnover and business performance in the Zyimba district in
Zimbabwe.
Three papers focus on consumer behaviour. One paper is a segmentation
study of the Hungarian population based on healthy eating. The topic of the
second paper is the impact of consumer innovativeness on shopping styles among
students in Pakistan. The third paper analyses the characteristics and motivations
of luxury wine buyers (over 50$ per bottle) in the USA.