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Rural Tourism and Ecotourism – the Main Priorities in Sustainable Development Orientations of Rural Local Communities in Romania

Dorobantu, Maria Roxana; Nistoreanu, Puiu - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

At this moment, both in our country and in the European Union, rural tourism and ecotourism are among the most dynamic … challenges. Sustainable development of Romanian local communities through ecotourism and rural tourism represents a requirement … tourism and ecotourism, between the need for sustainable development and the need to preserve the local traditions, and to …

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Tourism - Part of Sustainable Local Development

Avramescu, Tiberiu Cristian; Popescu, Ramona Florina - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

Local development could be described as an attempt of global territorial development including economic, social, ultural, political aspects, encouraging the endogenous development -involving all human and financial means which contribute to it and assuring their convergence. It is a process...

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Rural Livelihoods, Forest Access and Time Use: A Study of Forest Communities in Northwest India

Naidu, Sirisha C. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

This paper investigates the effects of the size of private land holdings and access to forest commons on the labour allocation to livelihood activities. The statistical analysis indicates that land and forests are complementary assets in the rural production process. Differential access to...

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Forest-based Tourism in Bangladesh: Status, Problems and Prospects

Alam, Mahbubul; Furukawa, Yasushi; Akter, Salma - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

forest ecosystems. The article attempts at exploring various dimensions of ecotourism industry and critically analyzes the … relationship among the stakeholders, overall strength-weakness of ecotourism sector and impediments hindering its development … forest degradation hindering expansion of ecotourism industry. For sustainable development of forest-based tourism …

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The conditions for functional mechanisms of compensation and reward for environmental services

Swallow, Brent; Leimona, Beria; Yatich, Thomas; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

Mechanisms of compensation and reward for environmental services (CRES) are becoming increasingly contemplated as means for managing human–environment interactions. Most of the functional mechanisms in the tropics have been developed within the last 15 years; many developing countries still...

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The myth of “neutrality” and the rhetoric of “stability”: macroeconomic policy in democratic South Africa

Isaacs, Gilad - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

This paper offers a comprehensive review of macroeconomic policy in democratic South Africa. It does so with two distinctive features. First, macroeconomic policy is analysed on four interlocking, and sometimes conflicting, levels: [1] policy as provided “on paper” in government plans and...

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The electricity-growth nexus in South Africa: Evidence from asymmetric co-integration and co-feature analysis

Phiri, Andrew; Nyoni, Botha - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

This study undertakes an examination of asymmetric adjustment effects between electricity consumption and economic growth in South Africa using quarterly data collected from 1983Q1 to 2013:Q4. In our study, we employ a momentum-threshold co-integration method to examine the long-run equilibrium...

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Factors Determining FDI in Nigeria: Role of Emerging Economies

Dinda, Soumyananda - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

This paper investigates the determinants of FDI in Nigeria, which is poor in terms of income but rich in natural resources. This study is an extension of our earlier work (Dinda 2012). Incorporating emerging trade partners of Nigeria in VECM this paper re-examine the factors determining FDI...

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Co-resident and absent mothers: Motherhood and labour force participation in South Africa

Dorrit, Posel; Gabrielle, van der Stoep - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

The effects of motherhood on women's labour force participation are estimated usually for mothers who are co-resident with their children. This paper, however, shows that a co-residency requirement upwardly biases the negative effects of motherhood in a country where labour force participation...

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A justification for the role of audits?: adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and jurisdictional analyses (Brazil, China,Japan and South Africa)

Ojo, Marianne - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

As well as consolidating on the existing literature on fair value accounting, by way of reference to jurisdictional analyses which include a focus on China, Japan, Brazil, and South Africa, this paper not only highlights why there is need for a re-think of the use of fair values as the primary...

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