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From Decentralisation of Planning to Peoples Planning - Experiences of the Indian States of Kerala and West Bengal by … Charvak, 2000: The Discussion Paper attempts a comparison of the process of decentralisation of planning in the two States …) as well as the KSSP experiment (from Science Popularisation to Local Level Planning) is also given. The study concludes …
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the core of the model is the adaptive planning equation. Other equations are presented and discussed as well. The model is …
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Managers are often told that formal planning helps. It is useful to examine whether this is good advice. Thus, I … applaud this effort to study marketing planning in New Zealand. Nevertheless, I find it difficult to accept the conclusions … drawn by the authors of “Marketing Planning in New Zealand” (MPNZ). I am concerned with the definition of marketing planning …
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The terms of reference for the inquiry on First Home Ownership asked the Commission to evaluate the affordability and availability of housing for first home buyers. The Commission’s preliminary findings were released for public comment in December. In its final assessment, the Commission...
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fundamental elements for their planning and management. An important matter could be to define the Mediterranean City, not only …
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Individuals and organizations have operated for hundreds of years by planning and forecasting in an intuitive manner … those problems. However, informal planning and forecasting are expensive activities; this raises questions about their … superiority over informal planning and forecasting. Furthermore, critics of the formal approach claim that it introduces rigidity …
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Subsequent to the economic difficulties of the 1980s, many Latin American governments reluctantly began to introduce market-oriented reform measures. In many cases, the new measures were adopted only as a means of participating in debt-relief programs such as the Brady Initiative. In no case,...
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Impacts of the availability of low cost computing power on macroeconometric forecasting and research in Latin America are widespread. One of the most immediate effects of the adoption of microcomputing hardware was more rapid adoption of new econometric estimation techniques. Easier development...
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We examine the extent, causes and consequences of the use of foreign currency as a co-circulating medium of exchange and store of value in Latin America. Using new estimates of the amount of foreign currency in circulation in the form of US dollars, we obtain unique measures of currency...
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We analyze empirically whether the emergence of China as a large recipient of FDI has affected the amount of FDI received by Latin American countries. For the longest time span possible given data availability (from 1984 to 2001), we do not find a substitution from Latin American inward FDI to...
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