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When cost-benefit analysis fails to account for peak-shifting the benefits of road improvement options are miscalculated. Using theory from transportation economics, we derive a simple model that disaggregates the average daily equilibrium into peak, counter-peak, and off-peak equilibria. This...
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Growing criticism of inefficient development aid demanded new planning instruments of donors, including international … introduced by major INGOs too - have increased the efficiency of development cooperation is open to question. Firstly, there have … medium-term country planning. Secondly, the underlying vision of rationality as a remedy for the major ills of development …
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This paper examines the implications for African economies of the possible outcomes from the ongoing agriculture negotiations in the Doha Round. The paper defines scenarios that capture key elements of the modalities negotiations and undertakes simulations using a global dynamic general...
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It’s almost a decade that the social science attitude has changed in evaluating the history and reality of the Mediterranean basin geographic area. The decadence of capitalistic modernisation has created a void in social and cultural relationships. A process of cultural legitimisation has been...
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The experiences of the developed countries reveals that a good corporate governance could reduces risk, stimulates performance, improves access to capital markets, enhances the marketability of goods and services, improves leadership, increases the value of the corporations, enables the...
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foreign authors mark ways of the group decision making. The group decides by methods, techniques, ways and models. While …
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This paper presents a comparative analysis of some intellectual capital models. The analysis is based on four criteria …: the main concepts and classifications on which the models are based on, the analysis of functional characteristics, the …
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aims to high light the role of the two components in general development of society, regional, economic and company … development and increase of competitiveness. All of them are subordinated to serve the objective of satisfying the population … sure, to the development of a segment of satisfied citizens, employees, owner and vice-versa. The public – private …
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relationships and associations about the real world. These claims are made through the construction of models – mathematical …, statistical, verbal or a mix of all three. This note examines the methodological issues faced by models in the context of the … Indian economy. It concludes by pointing that out that economists need to be more cautious while using models to intervene in …
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development of panel-data models from the nineteenth century to the beginning of the twenty-first one. In the second part, we … describe the models with fixed, random and dynamic effects. In the subsequent parts we describe some trends in the econometric … of the models in certain areas of knowledge (social sciences, economics, international economics, finance, public finance …
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