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been introduced. The model includes assumptions about the productivity gains of GM crops, possible consumer responses and …
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Australian, state and territory regimes came under review for the Commission’s inquiry into native vegetation and biodiversity regulations. The Commission’s preliminary findings were released for public comment in December 2003. It found that the cost of farm regulations could be reduced if...
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consumption and incomes grew in Ghana in the 1990s. Second, we ask how much of the rise in incomes was due to rises in the level …
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This paper demonstrates that the delivery of hardware inputs to Ghana’s basic education system – building classrooms …’s support for school building has been a major factor behind Ghana being on track to achieve the Millennium Development Goal of … that little learning can take place. Special attention needs to be paid to these least-privileged schools if Ghana is to …
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This paper investigates whether expectations of trustworthiness and resulting acts of trust accord with an objective model of trustworthiness or are biased. Combining experimental and survey data, I find that Ghanaian workers appropriately take account of the religiousness of trustees, but...
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This paper carries out an empirical assessment of the relationship between social capital and labour productivity in … significant and positive influence both on labour productivity and on human development. …
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In this paper labour productivity growth and its impacts are studied at the industry level. The development of … productivity is analysed in 54 industries in 14 EU countries and in the US between 1979 and 2001. The conclusion of the study is … that the industry structure that leads to fast productivity growth is connected to falling export prices. The relationship …
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productivity are interconnected. First we discuss two approaches in the human capital theory, stressing some difficulties that …
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This paper carries out an empirical assessment of the relationship between social capital and labour productivity in … significant and positive influence both on labour productivity and on human development. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005134471
It is assumed that performance of production system can be described with the three variables: amount of production equipment -- capital stock $K$ and 'consumption' of labour L and capital services S. It is shown that the production function can be specified as the known Cobb- Douglas production...
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