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Assessing Gender Mainstreaming in Developmental Organizations of Abbottabad
Razzaq, Sadia; Sadiq, Tayyaba; Naseem, Imran - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
The study assesses strategies of various developmental organizations in Abbottabad to incorporate gender in Project management. This is census based research because of various limitations attached with data collection, whole population considered to reduce the chances of maximum error. Data...
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Polar Bear Population Forecasts: A Public-Policy Forecasting Audit
Armstrong, J. Scott; Green, Kesten C.; Soon, Willie - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
The extinction of polar bears by the end of the 21st century has been predicted and calls have been made to list them as a threatened species under the U.S. Endangered Species Act. The decision on whether or not to list rests upon forecasts of what will happen to the bears over the 21st Century....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836045
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On the Travesty of the Tragedy of the Commons: Hardin's Nontrivial Error
Funk, Matt - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Garrett Hardin’s "Tragedy of the Commons" remains one of the most frequently cited works across the spectrum of science — indeed, a visit to the website of the influential journal which published this paper in 1968 reveals that this revolutionary communique remains amongst its ‘top...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008559018
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On the Problem of Vague Terms: A Glossary of Clearly Stated Assumptions & Careful, Patient, Descriptions
Funk, Matt - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Coase 1930 endures through the decades as one of the most-cited papers in economics due to the fact that it highlights a fundamental and equally enduring problem: "Economic theory has suffered in the past from a failure to state clearly its assumptions. Economists in building up a theory have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005260243
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On the Problem of Breathing, Eating, & Drinking Poison: An introduction to problem solving, nobility of purpose under adverse circumstances, and the search for truth with Sir Karl...
Funk, Matt - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This paper introduces Karl Popper's approach to problem solving in the social sciences. These methods fundamentally represent the scientific method of the natural sciences. Popper's problem solving technique is outlined in six steps, including an introductory treatment of his solution to Hume's...
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NAMA: A Tool of Development or De-industrialization?
Shafaeddin, Mehdi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
in order to make them conducive to industrialization and development. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836721
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From Export Promotion To Import Substitution; Comparative Experience of China and Mexico
Shafaeddin, Mehdi; Pizarro, Juan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
on imported inputs a couple of decades ago. The literature on industrialization, has discussed the questions of import … substitutions and outward-orientation mainly as alternative routes to industrialization. In both cases, it is argued that “learning …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836937
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Mode of socio-economic development and occupational structure: the case of contemporary Russia
Anikin, Vasiliy - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The given paper assumes the existence of a correlation between the occupational structure and the mode of social and economic development of a country. It is shown that the modern stage of development in advanced economies could be described by the post-industrial phase with (a) the specific...
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"Trade, Reform, And Structural Transformation in South Korea"
Betts, Caroline; Giri, Rahul; Verma, Rubina - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
quantify the impact of international trade and trade reform for industrialization. The model features Arming- ton motivated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258875
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The State, Industrialization and Competition: A reassessment of India's Leading Business Enterprises under Dirigisme
Mazumdar, Surajit - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
For over four decades after independence in 1947, India’s industrialization took place under a regime with an extensive … industrialization between independence and the onset of liberalization in 1991 is actually marked by a combination of continuity with … the context of dynamic industrialization and structural change, which unfolded within the specific economic, social and …
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