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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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Severe environmental degradation appears to be threatening the long-term development prospects of countries all over the world, particularly the developing ones such as Nigeria. The paper reviews relevant literature and examines the process of environmental degradation via water pollution in...
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This paper explores what a critical commentary on micro principles texts might look like, examining what is to be critiqued and how to do it.
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principles. In particular, the concept of sustainability, carrying with it clear requirements for values, goals and ethics, has … begun to reshape economics. The broadest conception of sustainability is found if we understand sustainable development to …
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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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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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In this paper, we examine the incentives for central bank activism and caution in a two-country open-economy model with …
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The question of why individual investors want dividends is investigated by submitting a questionnaire to a Dutch investor panel. The respondents indicate that they want dividends partly because the cost of cashing in dividends is lower than the cost of selling shares. Their answers provide...
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of the Firms from the World Business Environment Survey”, and based on a chapter in “Pathways Out of Poverty: Private … the World Business Environment Survey (WBES). It shows that important dimensions for the climate of business operation and … investment can be measured, analyzed, and compared across countries, and that governance is key to the business environment and …
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This paper presents the findings of a new survey by the Commission on what motivates Australian firms to operate or … Australian firms of operations overseas typically complements their domestic activities. The survey confirms that relatively few …
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