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benefits associated with attacking global environmental externalities, and hence the relative importance attached to the global … ensure that existing development assistance is not crowded out. Specifically, this should be achieved either directly through … local development objectives directly in global environmental transfer design. …
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The US 1996 Welfare Reform Act creating the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) and replacing the Aid to … caseload reductions are mainly attributable to lower unemployment rates, lower benefits, more education, and more sanctions …
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benefits associated with attacking global environmental externalities, and hence the relative importance attached to the global … ensure that existing development assistance is not crowded out. Specifically, this should be achieved either directly through … local development objectives directly in global environmental transfer design.  …
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States that the end of the Cold War created expectations of a peace dividend. Analyses and critically evaluates the set of myths about this dividend which emerged. Reviews the response of defence industries to disarmament and provides evidence from the UK.
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providing social security for its people. While there are no unemployment insurance benefits because of the economic philosophy …
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Purpose – Because belief in a supernatural agent with extraordinary power is rooted in psychology, Veblen's instinct psychology was the essential basis for his evolutionary economics of religion. The innate behavioral traits that Veblen called instincts in human nature are now recognized in...
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Purpose – Because belief in a supernatural agent with extraordinary power is rooted in psychology, Veblen's instinct psychology was the essential basis for his evolutionary economics of religion. The innate behavioral traits that Veblen called instincts in human nature are now recognized in...
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. This may be an impediment to Kenya's development. Design/methodology/approach – First relevant economic literature is …
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The legacy of the last 50 years of development economics is not very inspiring. In the 1960s and 1970s, instead of … looking at the real causes and viable solutions to poverty and underdevelopment, development economics was preoccupied with … specific policies of development. These countries skillfully combined government interventionism with market system incentives …
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Micro-finance institutions are critical to Africa's quest for solutions to the continent's development challenge. The …, two of the major Millennium Development Goals. The paper concludes with some policy recommendations and a set of “best …
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