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Many OECD countries are aiming to reform their tertiary education (TE) systems. This work explores the determinants of the investment in TE, with a focus on institutional setting of TE systems and private incentives to undertake years of schooling beyond upper-secondary degree level. For this...
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Most households in rural Madagascar are engaged in agriculture and derive a large share of their income from the production of food or cash crops and from animal husbandry. However, agricultural yields can be extremely volatile due to weather conditions, pests, insects, rodents and other...
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Cet article tente d’identifier empiriquement les déterminants de la croissance turque à partir de données annuelles de 1980 à 1995. L’analyse empirique s’appuie sur un modèle théorique "canonique" de croissance qui nous sert à élaborer des résultats empiriques. Il nous invite à...
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Although three quarters of GDP in developed economies come from service activities, studies on the location of activities focusing on manufacturing activities, which leads to underestimate the strengths and weaknesses of the territories. This paper deals with the notions of competitiveness or...
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The Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) construction as well as the European Union (EU) enlargement from 15 to 25 members have taken place within a minimum institutional framework as regards common budgetary policies. The achievement of the Single European Market and the introduction of the single...
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Taking part in the debate on the impact of scholarship, this article suggests a heuristic framework for possible knowledge exchanges between the figures of practitioners and the figures of researchers. A typology of the modes of knowledge exchange is proposed, combining both temporality,...
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Quality judgements in terms of academic standards of excellence required by external stakeholders such as labour markets and steering hierarchies obviously exert strong pressure on universities. Do they generate an ‘iron cage’ effect, imposing a passive and uniform conformity on global...
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The purpose of this research was to examine student perceptions of academic integrity among faculty and peers at a sample of public universities in Romania. The study explores the factors that influence academic dishonesty among college students and compares the relative importance of faculty...
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