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Status and potential of locally-managed marine areas in the Pacific Island Region: meeting nature conservation and sustainable livelihood targets through wide-spread implementation...
Govan, Hugh - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
The South Pacific has experienced a remarkable proliferation of Marine Managed Areas in the last decade. These protected areas, implemented by over 500 communities spanning 15 independent countries and territories represent a unique global achievement. The approaches being developed at national...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008534245
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Philippines and Indonesia: On the way to a migration transition
Amjad, Rashid - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1996
This paper, in a comparative analysis of the Philippines and Indonesia, examines first under what conditions can migration favorably contribute to the process of economic development and then to what extent can economic growth impact upon reducing emigration pressures in these labor surplus...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009402059
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Mental Accounting and Remittances: A Study of Malawian Households
Davies, Simon; Easaw, Joshy; Ghoshray, Atanu - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
assessing the impact of remittances on household consumption behaviour. We use 1998 cross-sectional data to find the following … habits. This is in line with the theory of remittances and corresponding mental accounting theory, and, finally, (iv) both … remittances and loans are used for consumption smoothing and investment purposes. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005837498
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SEZ proliferation in India: are the objectives being realized?
Bhatt, Antra; Puri, Manas; Appolloni, Andrea - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
majorly to the IT industry resulting in rigidity in the export mix. Policy implications hint towards a diversification of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009372503
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Disarmament in the context of the international economic order
Chichilnisky, Graciela - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1979
This paper focuses on an economic aspect of the disarmament question: the international market of armaments. I shall explore the thesis that arms trade is an increasingly important factor in North-South economic relations, that it affects not only international trade patterns, but also through...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005619738
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Social Development – A Multidimensional Approach To Social Development Analysis. Country Level Evidence for Year 2011
Lechman, Ewa - 2014
The study investigates disparities in social development in 144 countries worldwide. In the paper we aim to investigate cross-country differences in social development level in year 2011, as well as to estimate inequalities on the field. Secondly, we assess relative social development level...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014147310
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Inequality,Poverty and Hunger in Developing Countries: Sustainability Implications
Nwaobi, Godwin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
For several decades, the international community has aspired to integrate the social, economic and environmental dimensions of sustainability. Yet, no country has achieved the patterns of consumption and production that could sustain global prosperity in the coming decades. Thus, with the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011107392
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Structural Breaks and the Demand for Money in Fiji
Rao, B. Bhaskara; Kumar, Saten - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
This paper fills a gap in the empirical work on the demand for money for Fiji. We allowed for structural breaks in the … temporal stability and found that the demand for money in Fiji is stable. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836265
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Dynamic linkage between Macroeconomic Activities and Stock Prices in Fiji
Puah, Chin-Hong; Jayaraman, T. K. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
activities in Fiji. Empirical results show that all the time series data are nonstationary and cointegrated with a single vector …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011107684
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The Demand for Current Public Expenditure in Fiji: Theory and Empirical Results
Doessel, Darrel; Valadkhani, Abbas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003
This paper analyses current government expenditure in Fiji using annual time series data for the period 1969 …-price elasticity of demand and income elasticity of demand for current public expenditure in Fiji. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111268