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The research presented in this paper focuses on the sustainable use of water resources in Russia based on a Foresight … set of trends, weak signals and wild cards, along with their implications for water resources in Russia. Based on this …
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advancing water infrastructure and providing circular use of water. Russia is one of the countries, which is relatively better …, consumption patterns, discharge, treatment and re-use.The present study focuses on the use of water resources in Russia with a … identified in the course of the study, and their implications for water resources in Russia are discussed. Particular attention …
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We show that a market involving a handful of large-scale firms and a myriad of small-scale firms may give rise to different types of market structure, ranging from monopoly or oligopoly to monopolistic competition through new types of market structure. In particular, we find conditions under...
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an anomic situation – the post-Communist countries Russia and Kazakhstan (round six of the World Values Surveys fielded … anomie, and though to a lower degree, for alienation. In Kazakhstan, the level of urbanization also provides an impact on the … level of anomie. Apart from income, in Russia alienation can be predicted by gender, and type of occupation (manual or …
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The paper explores the effect of migration of Russian settlers on the intra-regional development in Kazakhstan. We use … Kazakhstan in 1897 and the current level of economic development. Exploiting exogenous geographic and geopolitical sources of …
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The Foresight study presented in this paper is devoted to the sustainable use of water resources in Russia. The authors …
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This paper reveals the relationship between the improvement in human diet and the transition to democracy. The spread of a ‘European diet' with a historically unprecedented high proportion of animal protein in the daily calorie intake is considered one of the factors of regime change since...
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We propose a general model of monopolistic competition which encompasses existing models while being flexible enough to take into account new demand and competition features. Even though preferences need not be additive and/or homothetic, the market outcome is still driven by the sole variable...
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Spatial economics aims to explain the location of economic activity. While the importance of the proximity to natural resources has declined considerably, distance and location have not disappeared from economic life. Recent work in spatial economics indicates that new forces, hitherto...
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We present a natural generalization of the Dixit-Stiglitz monopolistic competition model (DSM) -- we assume that there is a continuum of industries, each of them described as in DSM, and each characterized with its own elasticity of substitution. Although firms in all industries share the same...
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