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Greenfield foreign direct investment and mergers and acquisitions : / feedback and macroeconomic effects
Calderán, César - 2004
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Corporate governance and bank performance : a joint analysis of the static, selection, and dynamic effects of domestic, foreign, and state ownership
Berger, Allen N. (contributor) - 2005
"The authors jointly analyze the static, selection, and dynamic effects of domestic, foreign, and state ownership on bank performance. They argue that it is important to include indicators of all the relevant governance effects in the same model. "Nonrobustness" checks (which purposely exclude...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522568
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Reflections on Korea's acquisition of technological capability
Westphal, Larry E. - 1984
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Timor-Leste : An Analysis of Early Grade Reading Acquisition
World Bank - 2010
This report examines the status of reading acquisition in Timor-Leste's primary schools. It is written for education stakeholders and policy makers in Timor-Leste, including government officials, politicians, educators, parents, Timor-Leste's donor partners and Non Governmental Organizations...
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A Strategic Roadmap for Advancing Multi-hazard Impact-based Early Warning Systems and Services in the Caribbean
Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery; … - 2023
As a region that is impacted by multiple shocks, multi-hazard early warning systems (MHEWS) that provide timely, actionable information are critical to protecting lives, assets and livelihoods in the Caribbean. As the region experiences the compound and cascading effects of multiple hazards, the...
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Catastrophe Risk Assessment Methodology
World Bank - 2013
(in nominal terms) in associated damage costs. This report focuses on the development of the country catastrophe risk … Climate and Disaster Risk Management. The country risk profiles integrate data collected and produced through risk modeling … and include maps showing the geographic distribution of assets and people at risk (section one), hazards assessed (section …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012564753
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Philippines : Poverty Assessment, Volume 2. Methodology
World Bank - 2013
This report is intended as an input into the Philippine Government's poverty eradication strategy. The report aims to update our understanding of the nature of poverty and the recent progress in poverty reduction in the Philippines. It examines the extent to which growth in the nineties has...
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Digital-in-Health
World Bank - 2023
Technology and data are integral to daily life. As health systems face increasing demands to deliver new, more, better, and seamless services affordable to all people, data and technology are essential. With the potential and perils of innovations like artificial intelligence the future of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014580067
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Urban risk assessments : an approach for understanding disaster and climate risk in cities
2012
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The Indus Basin of Pakistan : the impacts of climate risks on water and agriculture
Yu, Winston H. - 2013
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