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poverty headcount by 2015 suggest that Zambia is unlikely to meet this International Development Target unless policy reforms …
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Further to investigation of how Malawi accumulated external debts amounting to $2.7 billion, without a corresponding … gaps in external liquidity and increasing demand for foreign borrowing. The paper also finds that Malawi suffered a heavy … after 1976 was transmitted worldwide and as a result, the rate of interest on Malawi debt rose (by 373%) from only 1.9% in …
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Malawi is one of the poorest countries in the world; this is largely due to the fact that more than 80% of the total …, micro and medium enterprises (SMMEs) is one way of achieving economic diversification in Malawi, indirectly addressing the … problem of poverty and employment creation . The Government of Malawi has, in recent years recognized the role that SMMEs can …
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Malawi has been implementing structural adjustment reforms since 1981 in search of a way to revive its declining … whether or not the claim that structural adjustments lead to manufacturing growth has been applicable to Malawi. By comparing … SAPs have assisted in improving manufacturing growth in Malawi though dismally. This dismal performance is evidenced by …
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It has been argued that most of Malawi’s smallholder farmers are too poor to benefit from any kind of credit, and that …
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In this paper we explore the possibility, heretofore unexplored in the marketing literature, that firms “invest funds” in their pricing processes. This builds on some of the recent economic work on the costs of price adjustment. To do this we undertook a two-year, cross- disciplinary,...
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This paper carries out an empirical assessment of the relationship between social capital and labour productivity in small and medium enterprises in Italy. By means of structural equations models, the analysis investigates the effect of different aspects of the multifaceted concept of social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076902
In economics, where the long resistance to reflecting on the effects of social interaction on economic behaviour is slowly waning, the concept of social capital may turn out to be a useful analytical tool. However, initial interest in social capital has produced a large variety of definitions,...
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This paper carries out an assessment of the influence that different kinds of social ties exert on labour precariousness, on the state of health of urban environments and on the economic performance in Italy. Overall, the empirical evidence shows that weak ties connecting members of voluntary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124968
This paper carries out an assessment of the influence that different kinds of social ties exert on labour precariousness, on the state of health of urban environments and on the economic performance in Italy. Overall, the empirical evidence shows that weak ties connecting members of voluntary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124969