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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 …

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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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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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Multicriteria Analysis of Neural Network Forecasting Models: An Application to German Regional Labour Markets

Patuelli, Roberto; Longhi, Simonetta; Reggiani, Aura; … - EconWPA - 2005

This paper develops a flexible multi-dimensional assessment method for the comparison of different statistical-econometric techniques based on learning mechanisms, with a view to analysing and forecasting regional labour markets. The aim of this paper is twofold. A first major objective is to...

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Income Diversity in Rural Lithuania: Benefits, Barriers, and Incentives

Bezemer, Dirk; Rutkauskaite, Jurgita; Zemeckis, Romualdas - EconWPA - 2003

Economic hardship, agricultural policy reform and price developments have adversely affected incomes from agricultural …

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Livelihoods and Farm Efficiency in Rural Georgia

Kelvin_Balcombe; Dirk_Bezemer; Junior_Davis; Iain_Fraser - EconWPA - 2005

reduction. It distinguishes between livelihood diversity strategies that contribute to sustainable growth in household incomes … diversity would lead to higher technical efficiency in agriculture via investment and thereby to higher household incomes …

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Corruption, Governance and Security: Challenges for the Rich Countries and the World

Kaufmann, Daniel - EconWPA - 2004

measurement in conventional (illegal) corruption indicators. It is found that manifestations of legal corruption may be more …

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Análisis y medición de las interacciones en los Sistemas Regionales de Innovación. Su relación con la trayectoria histórica y tecnológica de las regiones.

Iturriagagoitia, Jon Mikel Zabala - EconWPA - 2005

La conceptualización de los Sistemas Regionales de Innovación (Cooke y Morgan, 1993; Autio et al., 2004) puede ser considerada como una extensión y/o adaptación del concepto de los Sistemas Nacionales de Innovación surgidos a partir de los trabajos de Freeman (1987), Nelson (ed., 1993) y...

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The Water Poverty Index: an International Comparison

Lawrence, Peter; Meigh, Jeremy; Sullivan, Caroline - EconWPA - 2002

This paper reports on the construction of an International Water Poverty Index, part of the first phase of a research project into building a locally based version of the index. The purpose of the Water Poverty Index is to express an interdisciplinary measure which links household welfare with...

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Governance Matters III: Governance Indicators for 1996-2002

Kaufmann, Daniel; Kraay, Aart; Mastruzzi, Massimo - EconWPA - 2003

construct six aggregate governance indicators in each of the four periods. We present the point estimates of the dimensions of …This paper presents estimates of six dimensions of governance covering 199 countries and territories for four time … periods: 1996, 1998, 2000, and 2002. These indicators are based on several hundred individual variables measuring perceptions …

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