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Interaction Between The Economic Growth and the Construction Industry: A Time Series Analysis on Turkey (2000-2012)
KARGI, Bilal - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
In this study the relation between the economic growth and the construction industry has been tackled. While the growth the rate of the construction industry in the developing countries is more than the GDP growth rate, it is detected that the percent age it takes in the GDP of developed...
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Security of payment in Malaysian construction industry: issues on sub-contract's direct payment
Supardi, Azizan; Adnan, Hamimah - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
In Malaysia, sub-contractors have to bear with the current structure of payment mechanisms in the standard forms of contract, which are payment upon certification, direct payment from the employer, and contingent or conditional payment. However, „direct payment‟ provision is applied for in...
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Contractors’ Strategic Approaches to Risk Assessment Techniques at Project Planning Stage
Ahmad Zaini, Afzan; Endut, Intan Rohani; Takim, Roshana - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Abstract — The construction industry is still plagued by poor quality, poor workmanship, poor safety and health environment, and poor practices. The current main problem in the Malaysian Construction Industry is delayed projects under the Ninth Malaysia Plan. The idea of introducing formal...
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Security of payment regime in construction industry: are Malaysian sub-contractors ready?
Supardi, Azizan; Adnan, Hamimah; Mohammad, Mohammad Fadhil - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
In Malaysia, the particularly small sized sub-contractors are definitely benefited from payment provisions in the proposed Construction Industry Payment and Adjudication Act (CIPA Act), but need to enhance their knowledge in order to improve their awareness of the benefits of the Act....
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The adequacy of Malaysian security of payment legislation for sub-contractors in construction industry
Supardi, Azizan; Adnan, Hamimah; Mohammad, Mohammad Fadhil - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
In Malaysia, the particularly small sized subcontractors are definitely benefited from payment provisions in the proposed Construction Industry Payment and Adjudication Act (CIPA Act). However, they need to enhance their knowledge of the so-called the ‘Security of Payment’ Regime to benefits...
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Sub-Contractors’ readiness on the Malaysian security of payment legislation in construction industry
Supardi, Azizan; Adnan, Hamimah; Mohammad, Mohammad Fadhil - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
In Malaysia, subcontractors are definitely benefited from payment provisions in the proposed Construction Industry Payment and Adjudication Act (CIPA Act). However, the particularly small sized sub-contractors need to enhance knowledge of the so-called the ‘Security of Payment’ Regime to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009325636
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Opium for the Masses: How Foreign Free Media Can Stabilize Authoritarian Regimes
Kern, Holger; Hainmueller, Jens - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
A common claim in the democratization literature is that foreign free media undermine authoritarian rule. No reliable micro-level evidence on this topic exists, however, since independent survey research is rarely possible in authoritarian regimes and self-selection into media consumption...
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How to apply trade theory to the German unification? Making sense of ‘comparative advantage in nothing’
Thomas, Ziesemer - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1999
We derive several cases of 'comparative advantage in nothing', which can be relevant for East Germany. The simplest case with little relevance is the HO assumption of identical technologies across regions implanted into the Ricardian model. The second is the case with full employment wages...
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Credibility and monetary policy under inflation targeting
mhamdi, ghrissi; aguir, abdelkader; farhani, ramzi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
After more than two decades of inflation targeting in the world, it is important to evaluate if the adoption of this regime in a relevant developing country contributed to the creation of a better environment for the process of entrepreneurs' expectations formation. Brazil is part of an...
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Are Investment and Saving Cointegrated Evidence From Middle East and North African Countries
Sbia, Rashid; Hamdi, Helmi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The aim of this paper is to empirically examine the relationship between saving and investment for 6 Middle East and … Model techniques. The long run estimation reveals causality between investment and saving for the entire sample. The Granger … causality tests confirm this result and validate the presence of bidirectional causal relationship between investment and saving …
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