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Business activities play a major role in biodiversity loss and, as a result, firms are under increasing pressures from … stakeholders to reduce their negative impacts on living systems. In response, business attitudes, behaviors and strategies … regarding biodiversity are progressively changing, suggesting that interactions between business and biodiversity could go …
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a business perspective. First, we seek to analyze how Environmental Management Accounting (EMA) may be used by firms to … changes in business accounting and reporting standards. Because this would imply significant changes in business information …
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A man is a key subject of economics. “A man is irrational” - this opinion can be made from Allais paradox, risk aversion and other well-known fundamental problems. For a long time, this opinion was a barrier to proper solution of these problems and the development of the economics. A...
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tourism for a number of PICs. Moreover, if a strong two-way linkage is established between tourism and agriculture, Pacific …
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This Selected Issues paper analyzes sustaining potential growth in Aruba. As in the other Caribbean countries, there are growing concerns in Aruba about the slowdown in economic growth over the past two decades and the consequent tepid outlook for potential growth. Tackling such concerns...
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In recent years, the IMF has released a growing number of reports and other documents covering economic and financial developments and trends in member countries. Each report, prepared by a staff team after discussions with government officials, is published at the option of the member country.
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This paper examines the effects of tourism on labor employment, capital accumulation and resident welfare for a small … open economy with unemployment. A tourism boom improves the terms of trade, increases labor employment, but lowers capital … capital intensive, the fall in capital would not be so severe and the expansion of tourism improves welfare. However, when the …
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This Selected Issues paper examines implications of capital account liberalization in Iceland. Capital controls were critical in 2008 to avoid a more severe collapse of the Icelandic economy. Six years later, capital inflows have been liberalized, but most outflows remain restricted. Iceland has...
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This paper discusses key findings of the 2005 Status Report on Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) on Niger. The report is based on an assessment of economic and financial performance and sectoral policy and strategy implementation in 2005. The findings reveal that implementation of the...
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The note gives statistical data on Aruba with regard to indicators of tourism activity, components of GDP, real GDP …
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