Similar Search Results

Tarp, Finn - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1992

Quantitative project analysis drifted out of focus in academia during the 1980’s. Nevertheless, discrete projects remain the bulk of international development assistance. The present state of affairs is outlined: the application of basic principles is examined in case-context; and serious...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257973

Systematic Reviews: Questions, Methods and Usage

Hansen, Henrik; Trifkovic, Neda - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

While their application in the context of development aid is quite new, systematic reviews have been used and debated in other fields for various decades. Although evidence gathering and synthesis in the context of development aid inarguably faces challenges distinct from other fields, it is...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258221

When business meets aid: analysing public-private partnerships for international development (Development Policy Centre Discussion Paper 28)

Callan, Margaret; Davies, Robin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

International development agencies are increasingly looking to business as a partner in achieving development outcomes. Engaging business in development has become a central plank of many countries’ aid policies. However, the potential of public-private partnerships for development is still...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259080

Why inferential statistics are inappropriate for development studies and how the same data can be better used

Ballinger, Clint - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

The purpose of this paper is twofold: 1) to highlight the widely ignored but fundamental problem of ‘superpopulations’ for the use of inferential statistics in development studies. We do not to dwell on this problem however as it has been sufficiently discussed in older papers by...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008923034

Assessing the Millennium Challenge Corporation as a Model for Foreign Assistance Reform

Prud'homme, Dan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

This study assesses the effectiveness of different administrative models of US foreign assistance, with a unique focus on one that hypothetically channels more DFA-administered funds through the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC). The study finds several limitations with this model, and so...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008805042

A constant elasticity of profit production function

Beard, Rodney - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

Impact analysis of changes in production inputs may be simplified if one can apply a constant adjustment factor to profit. In particular, if a production function can be found for which the elasticity of profit is constant and this function has desirable properties, then one can use the input...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835998

Tribal Economies in Assam: A Study of Northeastern India

Ansari, Mahmood - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

The tribes and tribal economies have variously been represented in the northeastern region as remote, paddy producing, and land scarce settlements where the populations use the community land and collective labour in order to practice the shifting cultivation. These economies do occasionally...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011110824

Marketing in smes: the role of entrepreneurial sensemaking

Bettiol, M; Di Maria, E; Finotto, Vladi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Marketing literature has emphasized the factors hampering marketing planning and strategizing in small firms, in … marketing have nonetheless shown that small firms do engage in peculiar marketing strategies and activities that do not … contributing to extant theory in entrepreneurial marketing placing under scrutiny the generative moments of marketing strategies in …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258482

COMMERCIALISATION DES PRODUITS NON LIGNEUX DES CULTURES PERENNES : CAS DES NOIX DE CAJOU DANS LES COMMUNES DE BANTE ET SAVALOU

AGAÏ, Oniankitan Gregoire; ABOUDOU, Irénée Bio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

The development of the market of a product needs a wide knowledge of consumption and marketing practices relevant. This … measure tools. The marketing chain is simple and in favor of a vertical organisation. Nevertheless, the lack of producers and …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258930

Consumers’ versatile buying behavior irrespective to high and low involvement products

Hasan, Syed Akif; Subhani, Muhammad Imtiaz; Osman, Ms. Amber - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

involvement products. According the many/ various marketing principle of high and low involvement grid, consumers have different … consumers’ vigilant behavior. Real-life marketing strategy is a sound strategy, which uses common-sense to analyze the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258996