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That the Government of Mauritius provides nearly every resident over the age of 60 with a non-contributory, basic pension is one of the best-kept secrets in the world. The scheme dates from 1950 and became universal in 1958, following abolition of a means test. Remarkably, introduction of a...
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This paper reviews two common definitions of poverty targeted projects, discusses the limitations of poverty targeting …
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The emphasis of capital theory in recent decades has moved away from the implications of useful life as an important … invariant with respect to the type of capital policy being applied, whereas at the macroeconomic level it is shown that we … cannot obtain consistent aggregates of capital stock and replacement investment. …
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The Venture capital (VC) industry in India is of recent origin. However, the average investment value of each deal in … by government to promote venture capitalism in India provide an opportunity for an examination of venture capital … South East Asia in general, the author anticipated that the investment criteria employed by Venture Capital Firms (VCs) in …
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This note shows that, with pre-set price and capital decisions of firms facing uncertainty and financial market … imperfections, price, mark up and the expected degree of capacity utilization (resp. capital) decreases (resp. increases) with the …
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valuación de activos de capital, obtener evidencia en cuanto a la relevancia de la información contable en la valuación del …
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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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Globalisation is likely adversely impact the traditional classes. It also threatens to destroy national market, from which stems the bargaining power of the traditional classes.In spite of this, the paper suggests that the response to globalisation in India has necessarily to be discordant. It...
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Raising school enrollment, like economic development in general, takes a long time. This is partly because, as a mountain of empirical evidence now shows, economic conditions and slowly-changing parental education levels determine children's school enrollment to a greater degree than education...
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Data on physical capital are an indispensable part of economic growth and efficiency studies. In the case of China …, economy-wide fixed asset series are usually derived by aggregating gross fixed capital formation (net of depreciation) over … procedures, to varying degrees, ignore that (i) gross fixed capital formation does not equal investment, (ii) investment does not …
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