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Working Together in Pursuit of Inclusive Business: Sharing the Latin American and Caribbean Experience with Asia and the Pacific: A Retrospective

Asian Development Bank; Asian Development Bank (ADB) - 2013

partnership on South–South cooperation. One of the priority topics for this inter-institutional cooperation is inclusive business … grant-financed technical assistance projects. ADB recently created its Inclusive Business Initiative to provide specific … the pursuit of inclusive business. It is part of the IDB–ADB cooperation on knowledge exchange between the two regional …

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The Challenges of Doing Business in Papua New Guinea: An Analytical Summary of the 2012 Business Environment Survey by the Institute of National Affairs

Asian Development Bank; Asian Development Bank (ADB) - 2014

the 2002 and 2007 surveys and shows that, while the business environment has improved since 2002, doing business in Papua … New Guinea remains extremely challenging. Continued concerted efforts to improve the business environment will help …

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Uzbekistan Country Gender Assessment

Asian Development Bank; Asian Development Bank (ADB) - 2014

In 2011, Uzbekistan celebrated 20 years of independence. The transition has not been smooth for any country in the Commonwealth of Independent States, and Uzbekistan, too, has experienced both positive and negative developments in gender equality. The status of women and men in Uzbekistan is...

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Associations of perceived underemployment with in-role and organisational citizenship behaviours: the beneficiary perspective

Chen, Yi-Jung - In: Global Business and Economics Review 11 (2009) 3/4, pp. 317-331

This study investigated whether employees' perceived underemployment is associated differently with in-role behaviours and two forms of organisational citizenship behaviours and whether there is any difference in such relationships between in-group and out-group subordinates. Results of 304...

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Unintended consequences: how Somalia's business community, in search of stability, and the USA, in search of terrorists, nearly created a radical Islamic state in the horn of Afric...

Tomlinson, Chris - In: Global Business and Economics Review 10 (2008) 2, pp. 229-238

In the late 1990s, Somalia's business community struggled to profit in a market without any regulation. The government … had collapsed and clan warlords had divvied up the country and the capitol. The business people supported the Islamic …

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Terrorism and business

Frey, Bruno S. - In: Global Business and Economics Review 10 (2008) 2, pp. 172-183

is here argued that they not only apply to society as a whole but can also usefully be applied by business enterprises. …

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CIBAM and the Symposium on 'Security, Terrorism and Business'

Pitelis, Christos N. - In: Global Business and Economics Review 10 (2008) 2, pp. 145-171

We discuss the nature, evolution and functions of the Centre for International Business and Management (CIBAM), paying … attention to its Global Business Symposia, in particular, the one on 'Security, Terrorism and Business'. We also discuss issues … pertaining to terrorism and business, which cover grounds from the introductory talk by this author to the Symposium in question. …

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Ten propositions concerning security, terrorism and business

Clegg, Stewart R. - In: Global Business and Economics Review 10 (2008) 2, pp. 184-196

The history of the present is assessed in terms of forecasts that proved to be spectacularly incorrect. Debate about power in the past was largely state-centred but the realisation that the opposite of the state is not a free market but a political anarchy seems to have been forgotten. The...

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The globalisation of business and economics

Rafferty, Michael - In: Global Business and Economics Review 3 (2001) 1, pp. 157-174

This paper explores some of the processes and debates about globalisation, especially about economic and financial globalisation. It suggests that while economics has been slow to respond to its development, there are at least two ways economics can contribute to the globalisation debate. First,...

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ADB Brief 23: Using Information and Communication Technology to Support Women’s Entrepreneurship in Central and West Asia

Asian Development Bank; Asian Development Bank (ADB) - 2014

communication technology (ICT) can be used to support business activity and overcome challenges specific to women, (ii) the barriers …

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