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The financial performance of government trading enterprises is assessed in this report. The financial indicators and ratios used in the report cover operating performance, financial management and transactions with government. The paper covers 84 Commonwealth, State and Territory government...
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If Australia's population were to reach 40 million, it could only result from either a drastic reversal of the decline in the fertility rate or a very large increase in the rate of net migration. This lecture explores this interesting question.
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principles for South Au stralia, Queensland, NSW, Victoria South Africa, Chile, Colorado, Mexico and California. …
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use of irrigation water. A foundation for this research is a detailed understanding of irrigated agriculture in the … of the elasticity of demand for irrigation water. It focuses on three main irrigated industries — rice, dairy and …
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this paper we use data from Kenya and Tanzania to estimate returns to education for manufacturing workers and examine how … in Kenya.We test for the importance of ability bias and find convexity robust to endogeneity. Treating education as an …
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strategic incentives for either government or regulated entities. Consideration of both exogenous risk (uncontrollable) and … endogenous risk (concerns about policy credibility) suggests that permits should be auctioned several years in advance of use … all risk to be pooled and managed as efficiently as possible within the private sector. For endogenous risk, it creates a …
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of family farms and socialist-style farms in the presence of risk, given the typical post-socialist environment …
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NEED TO RECONSIDER OUR ACTIONS/DECISIONS WITH RISK AND TROUBLES, SO 'TRUSTING' IS GOING TO HAVE AN IMPORTANT ROLE AS … AND WE WONT TO AVOID THE RISK OF BEING DECEIVED. THESE SOCIAL INTERACTIONS ARE PRECONDITIONS THAT HAVE MANY CONSEQUENCES …
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In the financial crisis literature, it is usually argued that, contrary to the case of currency crises, building a time series index to identify banking crisis episodes is highly difficult, particularly because of the lack of reliable data on banking sector variables (non-performing loans,...
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The rapid increase in adult mortality due to the AIDS epidemic in sub- Saharan Africa raises great concern about its … rural Kenya using a panel of 1,266 households surveyed in 1997, 2000, and 2002. We find a strong correlation between working … adult death. The evidence indicates that rising adult mortality in rural Kenya is adversely affecting primary school …
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