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The European Union and its Member States have been engaged in product market reforms over a long period with notable reforms including the Single Market Program and the Lisbon Agenda launched in March 2000. Product market reforms are seen as exerting both a direct and an indirect impact on...

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This paper presents a procedure for clustering analysis that combines Kohone’s Self organizing Feature Map (SOFM) and statistical schemes. The idea is to cluster the data in two stages: run SOFM and then minimize the segmentation dispersion. The advantages of proposed procedure will be...

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The Porter Hypothesis Revisited: A Literature Review of Theoretical Models and Empirical Tests

Wagner, Marcus - EconWPA - 2004

The debate on the relationship between environmental regulation and competitiveness has been a topic of discussion for a number of years now. As early as 1991, the American economist Michael E. Porter proposed that stringent environmental regulation (under the condition that it is efficient) can...

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Economy of Vietnam

McCarty, Adam - EconWPA - 2001

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AN EVALUATION OF POST-INDEPENDENCE AGRICULTURAL POLICIES IN RELATION TO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA(1960 - 1987}

NWAOBI, DR. GODWIN CHUKWUDUM - EconWPA - 2005

AGRICULTURE IN ITS COMMON PARLENCE INCLUDES PRODUCTION, RESEARCH AND TRAINING IN THE FIELDS OF CROPS, FORESTRY, FISHING AND LIVESTOCK. NIGERIAN AGRICULTURE WAS CHARACTERIZED BY LOW FARM INCOMES; LOW CAPACITY LEVEL TO SATISFY FOOD AND FIBRE NEEDS OF THE COUNTRY, AND PRIMITIVE TECHNIQUES OF...

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