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Impacts of Native Vegetation and Biodiversity Regulations
Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2004
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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Technology and work - the 21st century and its challenges
Heng, Stefan - EconWPA - 2004
In sectors using information and communications technology (ICT) as platform for innovation, the meaning of the term …
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Information Technology and Australia’s Productivity Surge
Parham, Dean; Roberts, Paul; Sun, Haishun - EconWPA - 2001
This paper finds that the rapid update of information and communication technologies contributed to Australia’s strong productivity performance in the 1990s and the contribution to labour productivity growth was at least as strong as it was in the US. Australia generated a productivity...
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Digital Divide in Estonia and How To Bridge It
Kalkun, Mari; Kalvet, Tarmo - EconWPA - 2004
Estonia is one of the most rapidly developing information societies in Central and Eastern Europe. Still, 61% of the Estonian adult population does not use the Internet. The analysis, carried out by the research company Emor and PRAXIS Center for Policy Studies, looked thoroughly at the reasons...
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EU AGRICULTURAL POLICY AND THE REGIONAL DIFFERENTIATION OF AGRICULTURE IN POLAND
Crescenzi, Riccardo - EconWPA - 2004
The paper addresses the “spatial” structure of agriculture in Poland whose spatial development is analysed from the … process of progressive differentiation in the regional structure of agriculture which have produced the existing disparities … explores the linkages between the spatial evolution of agriculture and the increasing disparities in terms of regional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062521
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RURAL DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA: A CASE STUDY OF OSUMENYI TOWN(NNEWI SOUTH LGA, ANAMBRA STATE, NIGERIA}
NWAOBI, DR. GODWIN CHUKWUDUM - EconWPA - 2005
THIS PAPER ENUNERATES THE SEQUENTIAL HISTORIC ORIGIN OF OSUMENYI VILLAGE AND ITS CULTURAL, RELIGIOUS AND ECONOMIC PRACTICES. IN OTHERWORDS, THE PAPER WILL HELP TO CLARIFY SOME OF THE SOCIO-POLITICAL CHANGES AND ECONOMIC CHANGES THAT HAS TAKEN PLACE IN OSUMENYI'S HISTORY. THE PAPER RECOMMENDS THE...
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Finding a path in the sustainability jungle. A framework for corporate action.
Seelos, Christian - EconWPA - 2005
Collective concerns about sustainable development and proposals about how to achieve sustainability have produced a … sustainability; and yet the lack of clear definitions has left a vacuum of corporate guidance. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR …) has become a synonym for corporate action towards sustainability, but companies continue to struggle to understand how to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062681
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Wertschaffendes Umweltmanagement. Keine Nachhaltigkeit ohne ökonomischen Erfolg. Kein ökonomischer Erfolg ohne Nachhaltigkeit
Figge, Frank - EconWPA - 2004
Die Studie „Wertschaffendes Umweltmanagement“ betrachtet den Zusammenhang zwischen Umweltaspekten und Unternehmenswert. Hierbei bezieht sie erstmals zwei unterschiedliche, sich ergänzende Bewertungsverfahren ein: Sie nimmt erstens das Konzept des Environmental Shareholder Value auf und...
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Germany's broadband networks - innovation on hold
Heng, Stefan - EconWPA - 2004
The market for information and communication technologies is changing rapidly. Products and applications that used to be completely separate are becoming almost interchangeable. Sweeping change lies ahead in voice and data telephony: the fixed-line telephone network faces new competition from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005126023
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Mobile telephony - cooperation and value-added are key to further success
Heng, Stefan - EconWPA - 2004
The current problems in mobile telephony are leading critics to make overly pessimistic predictions that 3G – the third-generation mobile phone system – will never become profitable. However, the resulting calls not to introduce 3G and instead directly back alternative wireless technologies...
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