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Georgia; Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper Progress Report
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2005
The Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) on Georgia review macroeconomic, structural, and social policies in support of growth and poverty reduction, as well as associated external financing needs and major sources of financing. The sustainability of high economic growth is a positive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005825017
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Determinants of Private Investment in Pakistan
Sakr, Khaled - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 1993
This paper investigates the determinants of private investment in Pakistan with special emphasis on the impact of government investment. Using annual data for the period 1973/74-1991/92, it is estimated that private investment was positively correlated to GDP growth, to credit extended to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005826160
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Priorities for Further Fiscal Reforms in the Commonwealth of Independent States
Lorie, Henri - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2003
Building on the substantial progress made in establishing fiscal systems consistent with market economies, the paper identifies priorities for further fiscal structural reforms among the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) countries. Activities of extra budgetary accounts and quasi-fiscal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005826523
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Senegal; 2002 Article IV Consultation and Requests for a Three-Year Arrangement Under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility and for Additional Interim Assistance Under the Enha...
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2003
This paper examines Senegal’s 2002 Article IV Consultation and Requests for a Three-Year Arrangement Under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility (PRGF) and for Additional Interim Assistance Under the Enhanced Initiative for Heavily Indebted Poor Countries. Overall, economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005591262
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Senegal; Second Review Under the Policy Support Instrument and Request for Modification of Assessment Criteria-Staff Report; Informational Annex; Press Release
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2011
The Second Review under the policy support instrument (PSI) highlights that Senegal’s economy has remained resilient to the global economic turmoil. In line with the authorities’ new Document of Economic and Social Policies for 2011–15, the 2012 economic program supported...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011243729
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The Green Bean Coffee House: An exploration of the specialty coffee Industry and sustainable business practices
Hunt, Evan - 2009
, as well as enables the buyer and producer, as business partners, to set the price and production standards.The coffee … house itself is the perfect medium for exploring the principles and benefits of sustainable business. Not only because of … information gather from primary and secondary sources I have formulated a fully developed “sustainable” business model that goes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009455879
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Family-Owned Businesses: Determinants of Business Success and Profitability
Wallace, Jeffrey S. - 2010
The purpose of this study was to examine many factors associated with family-owned businesses that lead to business … success and profitability. The panel data used in this study came from the 1997 and 2000 waves of the National Family Business … Study (NFBS). Many independent variables from the 1997 wave (e.g., age, gender, managerial activities, business size, home …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009482354
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Verteilungswirkungen anreizorientierter Sozialpolitik : das deutsche Rentenversicherungs- und Steuersystem in der Perspektive dynamischer Lebenszyklusmodelle
Grub, Martin - 2005
Drei große Reformenpakete und eine Reihe kleinerer Begleitmaßnahmen prägen das renten¬politische Erbe der rot-grünen Bundesregierung. Einerseits greifen sie Trends in der Reformpolitik seit Beginn der 90er Jahre auf. So verstärkt die Rentenstrukturreform 2001 beispielsweise die...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009433682
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Is There "White Flight" into Private Schools? Evidence from the National Educational Longitudinal Survey
Fairlie, Robert - Economics Department, University of California-Santa … - 2015
Using a recently released confidential dataset from the National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES), we find some evidence of "white flight" from public schools into private schools partly in response to minority schoolchildren. We also examine whether "white flight" is from all minorities...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011210853
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First-Run Smoking Presentations in U.S. Movies 1999-2006
Polansky, Jonathan R.; Glantz, Stanton PhD - Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education, UC … - 2007
Smoking among American adults fell by half between 1950 and 2002, yet smoking on U.S. movie screens reached historic heights in 2002, topping levels observed a half century earlier. Tobacco's comeback in movies has serious public health implications, because smoking on screen stimulates...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010537835