scholarly journals The Solar Explosion

2020 ◽  
Vol 142 (10) ◽  
pp. 38-43
Author(s):  
Amiyo K. Basu

Abstract There were two breakthroughs that led to a veritable revolution in photovoltaic prices. The commonly told story is that China started manufacturing lower-quality panels and dumped them on the world market at prices near (or even below) the cost of production. The truth is more complicated. Chinese manufacturing at scale played a part, but so did German industrial policy and a focus on improving the complete power system, not just the PV cells.

Finisterra ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 30 (59/60) ◽  
Author(s):  
Iva Pires

THE EEC TEXTILE AND CLOTHING INDUSTRIES, THE NEW COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGES - In spite of using new technologies, the textile and clothing industries remain intensive in workforce and thus sensitive to wage costs. The European firms must therefore find other competitive advantages based on product differentiation, quality and design. German and Italian T&C industries are good examples of how quality and design can help "mature" industries maintain a successful place in the world market. Nevertheless, the cost of production remains a problem. The use of the outwear processing traffic (OPT) allows the European textile industry to mantain the quality patterns of its products, profiting from cheap workforce. This more advantageous situation is due both to innovation and to low production costs.


2011 ◽  
Vol 133 (04) ◽  
pp. 48-48
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Winters

This article analyzes the energy identity crisis in some oil-producing countries. It highlights that the retail price for gasoline in countries such as Libya, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and Yemen was at or below the cost on the world market of the petroleum needed to produce it. However, Egypt went from an exporter of more than 300,000 barrels of oil a day in 1999 to a net importer beginning in 2009. And as a consequence, the prices for gasoline in Egypt went from below the raw material cost in 2006 to being comparable to those in the United States. Tunisia shifted from an exporter to an importer in 2000. Thanks to strong consumption growth, Bahrain has also seen its exports plummet from more than 30,000 barrels a day in the 1990s to around 3500 today. The Saudi consumption curve is climbing at about 4% per year, and unless the country can raise production above 11 million barrels a day, its exports will disappear by 2050.


Author(s):  
Егор Шерин ◽  
Egor Sherin

The paper provides an economic and geographical analysis of the supply directions and identifies the coal consumption areas of Kuznetsk coal and refined products. It highlights the place of Kuzbass among Russian coal basins and its contribution to the economy of the Kemerovo region and the country. The research features the domestic and foreign (export) supply directions and use of coal and its processing products, including issues of coal and coke competitiveness on the world market. The research has revealed the main problems of coal transportation outside the Kemerovo region, primarily related to the railroad workload and overpriced freight rates for the railway transportation. The author has made consumption zoning of the Kuznetsk coal according to the distance from the mining site, the scale of consumption and its role in the power system of regions. Three such areas have been identified: an area of nearby concentrated consumption, an area of moderately remote consumption, and an area of remote and scattered consumption. The paper gives an economic and geographical description of these areas.


Author(s):  
A. R. Shiryaeva ◽  
E. A. Rozhanskaia

Space is not only a place of international cooperation, but also a place for competition. The failures that accompanied the key player in the market, the United States, have recently stimulated NASA's ambitious commercial space program which has enabled a successful partnership with two American companies. This new business model should not only reduce the cost of flights, but also create a basis for further space exploration. In order to create sustainable economic growth in Russia, it seems necessary to develop the whole range of priority areas. One of the most promising is the rocket and space industry. The reasons are the large turnover, experience and unique technological competencies. We believe that Russia will succeed in case it activates internal reserves of a country and wisely uses global market opportunities. Technical and technological development of the rocket and space and related industries will strengthen the state’s position in the world market and will enhance the international competitiveness of Russian enterprises. In this article, authors analyze the current state of the Russian and world space markets, evaluate the performance of RSC «Energia», formulate proposals for modernization of company's activities that will help Russia strengthen and expand its positions among the global players.


2020 ◽  
pp. 10-15
Author(s):  
Nadiia ANTYPENKO ◽  
Olena RYBAK ◽  
Yuliia PYROZHENKO

Introduction. The paper is devoted to the problems of Ukrainian aviation enterprises. The paper analyzes the state of the world air transportation market, determines the place of Ukraine on it. The trends in the aviation services market for the first quarter of 2017-2020 are revealed. The urgency and necessity of modernization of Ukrainian enterprises is due to a number of factors: significant structural and technological backwardness, a high degree of depreciation of fixed assets and a significant level of capital and material consumption of equipment; low standard of living and purchasing power of the population; unsatisfactory state of innovation system and market infrastructure. The purpose of the paper is to increase the relative efficiency of the airline by bringing the active part of fixed assets in line with the new conditions and requirements. Results. The fall of the passenger transportation market is determined. The increase in the cost of air cargo was tracked. When studying the current state and trends in the development of the industry, the post-COVID-19 factors were identified, which led to a change in the cost of freight transportation. Conclusion. Taking into account the indicated tendencies and operating conditions in the world market and the Ukrainian air transportation market, an algorithm for modernization is proposed, within the framework of which the tactical goals of the aviation enterprise are indicated, the result of the implementation of which should be an increase in the profitability of freight traffic. The results of the work of theoretical and practical aspects of modernization of air cargo in Ukraine gave grounds to draw the following conclusions: modernization of Ukrainian airlines should be carried out at the micro level in order to increase the profitability of operating activities; the level of profitability of the airline can be influenced by both internal and external factors; the change in the coefficient depends on the general economic situation of the country or the world, the level of inflation, the devaluation of the national currency, organizational and technical problems in production, the volume of services sold, etc.


Author(s):  
E.M. Kurenkova ◽  
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O.V. Kukharenkova

The data on the area under crops of quinoa, the yield and production volume of this crop in the main producing countries, as well as information on the volume of imports and the cost of quinoa grain in the world market are presented.


Author(s):  
E.D. Krasichkova ◽  
◽  
O.G. Volobueva

The data on the area under crops of quinoa, the yield and production volume of this crop in the main producing countries, as well as information on the volume of imports and the cost of quinoa grain in the world market are presented.


2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (Extra-A) ◽  
pp. 11-18
Author(s):  
Andrey Petrovich Garnov ◽  
Natalia Alekseevna Prodanova ◽  
Denis Grigorevich Perepelitsa ◽  
Markov Maksim Aleksandrovich ◽  
Elmira Ahmetshaevna Asyaeva ◽  
...  

It is generally assumed that the result of the healthcare company's work is taxed. This is the principle used by most tax systems in the world. But not with us. The tax system that is currently being used in Russia, which was invented and implemented by "experts" from the IMF, is not based on the state withdrawing from the producer some, even the lion's share, of the profit that he received. The know-how of this system consists of “wind up” taxes and other mandatory payments of a tax nature on the cost of production and on each other. The concept of social entrepreneurship at the microeconomic level is revealed. The characteristics of social and socially oriented enterprises are given, their role as a palliative in alleviating poverty in Russia is shown. The main obstacles to the formation and development of social entrepreneurship in Russia are identified. Measures to overcome them are proposed and the prospects of this type of entrepreneurship are evaluated.    


Author(s):  
Genrietta Rusetskaya ◽  
Alexander Yuryshev

The transition to an innovative way of development in the gas industry is associated with deep, comprehensive processing of natural gas, the start-up of manufacturing products with high added value. In terms of proven reserves of natural gas, Russia ranks number one in the world, the demand is constantly growing both at the domestic market and for exports. Natural and associated petroleum gases of many oil and gas condensate fields in Russia are multicomponent systems that contain a number of components important for the gas chemical industry (ethane, propane, butane, etc.). The most valuable of these is helium. The purpose of this work is to study the problems and prospects for the development of the helium industry in Russia and in the world. Using the methods of economic analysis, generalization and synthesis, the authors estimated the volume of reserves of helium-saturated gases in the fields of the country and Eastern Siberia, the state of helium production, the potential for using helium in the sectors of the Russian economy, the possibility and conditions of competitive entry into the world market. As a result, they detected Russia’s technological inferiority in a number of industries, coming from the low demand for helium, the location of potential consumers far from production centers, the high cost of helium production, the lack of reliable methods of its transportation, etc. At the same time, full-scale helium demand satisfaction of Russian industries is associated with the construction of the Amur Gas Processing Plant. The demand for helium in the countries of the world is constantly growing, an increase in consumption is observed in traditional industries and in the field of innovative technologies. The US dominance in the production of helium is gradually declining due to the depletion of some deposits. The authors make a conclusion that after 2030 Russia can satisfy domestic consumption of helium to bring the industry to an effective economic and environmental level and, while reducing the cost of production, become a major participant in its world market.


1972 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 298-315 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott M. Eddie

Protection of a domestic manufacturing industry to encourage its expansion through import substitution is equivalent (in the absence of equal protection for agriculture) to a “tax” on agriculture to support the development of the industrial sector. To call this policy of biasing the intersectoral terms of trade to favor industry a typical strategy of underdeveloped countries would be, if anything, to understate its universality. The arguments for and against such a strategy are well known, and an approximation of the benefits to the industrial sector can be gleaned from the national accounts of many countries. What remains hidden in the accounts, however, is the cost to the agricultural sector as a result of its being forced to trade at less favorable terms of trade than those provided by the world market. The purpose of this paper is to work out a simple methodology for measuring this cost and then to attempt an estimate of the cost in a particular case.


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