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HDR 2011 - Sustainability and Equity: A Better Future for All

UNDP - Human Development Report Office, United Nations …

The 2011 Human Development Report argues that the urgent global challenges of sustainability and equity must be addressed together – and identifies policies on the national and global level that could spur mutually reinforcing progress towards these interlinked goals. Bold action is needed on...

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Unofficial Development Assistance: a model of development charities' donation income

Arulampalam, Wiji; Backus, Peter G.; Micklewright, John - Department of Quantitative Social Science, Institute of … - 2013

fundraising effect and a unitary household income elasticity. We find evidence that the conventionally identified 'price' effect … may be the result of omitted variable bias rather than a genuine response of donors to perceived excesses in fundraising … find a positive spillover effect of fundraising, suggesting that the efforts of one development charity may increase …

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Professionelles Management und Zielerreichung im Verein

Gmür, Markus; Wolf, Markus; Schafer, Jonas - Faculté des sciences économiques et sociales - … - 2012

Professionalität im Management von kleinen und mittleren Vereinen weist einen deutlichen Zusammenhang mit ihrer Ressourcenlage und dem Grad ihrer Zielerreichung auf. Am Beispiel von Schweizer Sportvereinen lässt sich zeigen, dass sich die erfolgreicheren Vereine insbesondere durch eine...

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Finanzierungsmix und Effizienz in spendensammelnden Organisationen

Gmür, Markus - Faculté des sciences économiques et sociales - … - 2013

Spendenabhängigkeit der Organisation ist und je stärker ihr Gewicht im Fundraising auf dem Beziehungs- gegenüber dem Massenmarkt ist, umso …

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Incentives and invention in universities

Lach, Saul; Schankerman, Mark - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

Using data on U.S. universities, we show that universities that give higher royalty shares to faculty scientists generate greater license income, controlling for university size, academic quality, research funding and other factors. We use pre-sample data on university patenting to control for...

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THE REVIEW OF ECONOMIC LEGISLATION IN JUNE 2014

Tolmacheva, Irina; Grunina, Yulia - In: Russian Economic Developments (2014) 7, pp. 42-42

In June, the following amendments were introduced into the legislation: the list of grounds for carrying out extraordinary inspection of non-profi t organizations; amendments aimed at expansion of the methods of provision of insurance services by means of electronic sales by individual types of...

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State-Owned Enterprises, Exporting and Productivity in China: A Stochastic Dominance Approach

Elliott, Robert; Zhou, Ying - Department of Economics, University of Birmingham - 2013

A popular explanation for China's rapid economic growth in recent years has been the dramatic increase in the number of private domestic and foreign-owned firms and a decline in the state-owned sector. However, recent evidence suggest that China's state-owned enterprise (SOEs) are in fact...

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Review of the Economic Legislation IN SEPTEMBER 2013

Grunina, Yulia; Tolmacheva, Irina - In: Russian Economic Developments (2013) 10, pp. 43-44

In September, the following amendments were introduced into the legislation: the amounts of the initial contract price were determined so that a participant in the purchase was obliged to provide a customer with additional information in case those amounts were exceeded; a decision was made to...

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PARALLEL REALITY OF STATE DEFENCE ORDER

Zatsepin, Vasiliy - In: Russian Economic Developments (2013) 11, pp. 47-49

The State Defense Order 2012 was implemented nearly 80%. Being limited in labor force, Russia’s defense plants are facing problems related to drastically increased the State Defense Order 2013. President Putin’s requirements to create a transparent military economy, establish order in terms...

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Review of the Economic Legislation IN OCTOBER 2013

Tolmacheva, Irina; Grunina, Yulia - In: Russian Economic Developments (2013) 11, pp. 64-65

In October, the following amendments were introduced into the legislation: such new as well as updated norms of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation as regulate the civil institute of the international private law will become effective from November 2013; the annual quota on education of foreign...

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