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Suicide attack is the most virulent and horrifying form of terrorism in the world today. The mere rumor of an impending … majority of all terrorism-related casualties, and the rate of attacks is rising rapidly across the globe. During 2000 … carried out by Islamist groups claiming religious motivation, also known as jihadis. Rand Corp. vice president and terrorism …
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Contemporary suicide terrorists from the Middle East are publicly deemed crazed cowards bent on senseless destruction who thrive in poverty and ignorance. Recent research indicates they have no appreciable psychopathology and are as educated and economically well-off as surrounding populations....
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insurance for non-catastrophe risks. This result differs from the findings on individual demand for insurance. The terrorism … price elasticity of the demand for terrorism insurance is half in this area relative to the rest of the country. …This paper tests some existing theories developed over the past 25 years on corporate demand for insurance. Using a …
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framework, which reflects the much debated source of welfare economics, is useless for surveys that focus on people's demand … complete, theoretically, the construction of an autonomous research program to establish demand measurement guidelines in … developing countries and show, through a survey implemented in Moshi (Tanzania) about demand for sanitation, some methodological …
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demand - the stakeholders of the sector and to study their behaviours and their interactions. Using the output of this …
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' demand; the second one was about the sector regulation. …
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technology transfer process. The author introduces the concept of "Demand Readiness Level", an additional scale to Technology …
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) is applied on a panel dataset, drawn from the French "Car Fleet" survey over the period 1999-2001. Importantly, the …
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Alors que les recherches académiques françaises se tournent depuis peu vers l'analyse dynamique de la pauvreté, les approches longitudinales ont fait l'objet d'une littérature très abondante dans d'autres pays. Cette revue de la littérature contribue à la réflexion autour des moyens de...
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Ce travail compare tout d'abord les distributions de salaires et de qualifications de l'Ile-deFrance et du reste du pays. Les salaires sont plus élevés en Ile-de-France de 24%. Ces différences relèvent pour le quart de qualifications plus élevées et pour le reste d'une plus grande...
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