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National Urban Transport Policy, the guiding document for urban transport in India, emphasis movement of people and goods and not vehicles. The paper establishes that investment on walking and cycling facilities, and surface rail projects give maximum benefit compared to high cost motorised...
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Over the recent decades, scholars and planning practitioners have developed strategies for directed urban decentralization, which aim at the optimization of urban commuting patterns by allowing households to locate closer to job opportunities. However, given ongoing changes in the socioeconomic...
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This dissertation treats the topic of environmentally unfriendly consumption behaviour in relation to air pollution and …
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Car use is an increasingly serious problem in many modern cities because of polluting emissions, noise, accidents and congestion. To examine this issue, this paper analyzes the individual choice between taking the car and using alternative transport modes (e.g. walking, cycling, taking the bus...
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his politic party. This article starts a research work to know about the Venezuelan’s preferences of consumption as well … important determinants of consumption and depressants of saving in Venezuela. …
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I examine the effects of fiscal policy actions on private consumption in a yearly panel of sixteen OECD countries …—with expansionary fiscal policy boosting consumption in recessions, having a nil effect on it in normal times or in fiscal stress, and … strongly displacing consumption in mixed states when recession and fiscal stress coincide. This happens because the liquidity …
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costs of search with its marginal benefit. The consumer can maximize the utility of his consumption-leisure choice with …
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Like many other countries, aggregate consumption constitutes a major portion of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in … Pakistan. Consumption decisions determine savings decisions. In long term growth literature, differences in long term growth … consumption models in the literature for their empirical verification taking macro level data for Pakistan economy. These include …
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consumption and perform towards profitability as a new strategic resource. …
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farmers was similarly interviewed for comparison purposes. Questions on the survey instrument sought to identify consumption … identify characteristics of respondents that might be pointers to rabbit meat consumption. Education, the number of rabbits … marginally associated with rabbit meat consumption. Only 38 percent of non-rabbit farmers consumed rabbit meat compared to 82 …
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