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The Firms Speak: What the World Business Environment Survey Tells Us about Constraints on Private Sector Development
Kaufmann, Daniel; Batra, Geeta; Stone, Andrew H. W. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003
This chapter summarizes the salient results of the World Business Environment Survey (WBES). It shows that important …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005617053
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Succession planning in Polish family business. An exploratory investigation (chapter 4)
Surdej, Aleksander; Wach, Krzysztof - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
The main aim of the paper is to identify the succession strategies (especially the ways in which they attempt to balance the strive to maintain family’s control over the company with the goal of firm’s growth) of the first generation of Polish entrepreneurs. Research survey was conducted on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009147700
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Regional context of small and medium-sized enterprises' development. case study of southern Poland
Wach, Krzysztof - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
The paper verifies the existence of relations between development of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and the particular factors of regional environment as well as demographic parameters of entrepreneurs and their enterprises. SMEs localized in Southern Poland in accordance with NUTS -1...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009149384
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Role and relevance of business incubators in ICT led global educational system: case for eco-enterprise village
Koshy, Perumal - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
world over in the next 5 years. As many as 45 million young people enter the job market annually, at a global level. There …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008765093
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Governance Redux: The Empirical Challenge
Kaufmann, Daniel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003
Building from the 2002/03 contribution to the Global Competitiveness Report ("Governance Crossroads"), this paper argues that governance continues to be at a crossroad, its underperformance being evident in most regions and across many countries. This ('governance policy gap') contrasts with the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005621375
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African Jobless Growth Morphology:Vulnerabilities and Policy Responses
NWAOBI, GODWIN - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
As by product of economic growth, jobs are indeed transformational. In other words, efficiency increases as workers get better at what they do (as more productive jobs appear and less productive one disappear). In fact societies flourish as jobs bring together people from different ethnic and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011107833
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When business meets aid: analysing public-private partnerships for international development (Development Policy Centre Discussion Paper 28)
Callan, Margaret; Davies, Robin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
International development agencies are increasingly looking to business as a partner in achieving development outcomes. Engaging business in development has become a central plank of many countries’ aid policies. However, the potential of public-private partnerships for development is still...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259080
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A behavioral approach to the political and economic inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations
Boettke, Peter - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
book explains well what this volume is all about--why economics can’t explain the modern world. An important modifier would … be – modern economics can’t explain the modern world – because much of what McCloskey argues is the resurrection of an … Friedman. Fundamentally, she reasserts the power of ideas to shape the world. McCloskey’s narrative is simple and compelling …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009223341
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Propuestas para mejorar el Federalismo Fiscal en Argentina: Un nuevo esquema para la distribución del Impuesto a las Ganancias
Bertello, Nicolas; Uña, Gerardo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
To promote and contribute to the discussion of fiscal federalism in Argentina, this paper presents a proposal to amend the distribution of the revenue from the Income Tax between the Nation and the provinces. The proposal is based on the need to help reinvigorate the discussion on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008526959
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Using the Beveridge & Nelson decomposition of economic time series for pointing out the occurrence of terrorist attacks
Gómez-Sorzano, Gustavo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
This paper continues my research program on violence and terrorism started 15 years ago. It presents in the first part through empirical exercises, the suitability of The Beveridge and Nelson decomposition of economic time series for pointing out the occurrence of terrorist attacks. It presents...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005790155