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Options for Income-Enhancing Diversification in Burkina Faso
Chandra, Vandana - 2013
One of the objectives of this CEM was to identify the most promising products and conduct competitiveness diagnostic. The products list is summarized in Table 1 below. Competitiveness, in this report, is seen as a combination of productivity and costs, and the second section of the CEM presents...
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Does Oil Income Impede Democratization In Muslim– Majority Countries?
Nuri Aras, Osman; Suleymanov, Elchin; Zeynalov, Ayaz - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
It is widely recognized that many developed countries have established democratic institutions, while the majority of developing countries are far from being democratic states (e.g. Acemoglu, 2008). One argument for this discrepancy is that there exists a strong relationship between democracy...
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MIKROFINANČNÍ REVOLUCE: AKTUÁLNÍ KONTROVERZE A VÝZVY
Janda, Karel; Zetek, Pavel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
This paper provides a brief but comprehensive overview of microfinance academic literature with emphasis on recent innovations, trends and efficiency. In particular, we focus on controversial issues of microfinance, such as commercialization, regulation, interest rate policy and the balance...
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When is shared sanitation improved sanitation? - The correlation between number of users and toilet hygiene
Günther, Isabel; Niwagaba, Charles B.; Lüthi, Christoph; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
The international debate on the question of whether shared and/or public sanitation facilities should be considered improved is still open. The concern is that a shared sanitation facility cannot be maintained in hygienic conditions when used by too many people. The analysis of 1’500 randomly...
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An empirical investigation of socio-economic resilience to natural disasters
Akter, Sonia; Mallick, Bishawjit - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
-prone coastal community in Bangladesh. It applies the state-and-transition model, a widely used applied ecology model, to (1) assess …
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The Bargaining Power of Missing Women: Evidence from a Sanitation Campaign in India
Stopnitzky, Yaniv - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Female bargaining power in rural Haryana, as in much of northern India, is constrained by widespread discrimination against women. In recent years, however, women successfully demand private sanitation facilities from potential husbands as a precondition for marriage. I study this manifestation...
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The dynamics of personal income distribution and inequality in the United States
Kitov, Ivan; Kitov, Oleg - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
We model the evolution of age-dependent personal income distribution and inequality as expressed by the Gini ratio. In … our framework, inequality is an emergent property of a theoretical model we develop for the dynamics of individual incomes …. The model relates the evolution of personal income to the individual’s capability to earn money, the size of her work …
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Innovation Concepts and Typology – An Evolutionary Discussion
Kotsemir, Maxim; Abroskin, Alexander - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This paper is devoted to the analysis of evolution of innovation concepts, aspect and types. First emergence and evolution of different aspects and concepts of innovation are analysed, then the development of innovation concepts from a historical perspective and finally an overview given of...
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Economic and Employment Effects of Microloans in a Transition Country
Baldi, Guido; Sadovskis, Vairis; Šipilova, Viktorija - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Over the last years, microloans to small and medium-sized enterprises have grown in significance in many countries of Central and Eastern Europe. Empirical evidence on the economic and social impact of microfinance is, however, scant. In trying to shed more light on this important issue, this...
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Does a Grant-based Approach Work for Addressing Extreme Poverty? A RCT Approach
Das, Narayan C; Raza, Wameq A - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Addressing extreme poverty remains a key challenge for development in Bangladesh. BRAC initiated the “Challenging the Frontiers of Poverty Reduction” (CFPR) programme—a grant-based approach to tackle extreme poverty. This study provides an assessment of the cogency of this grant-based...
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