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Surviving competition : neighborhood shops vs. convenience chains
Talamas Marcos, Miguel Ángel - 2023
Hundreds of millions of microenterprises in emerging economies face increased competition from the entry and expansion of large firms that offer similar products. This paper studies how one of the world's most prevalent microenterprises, neighborhood shops, confront competition from convenience...
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Institutions and the environment : existing evidence and future directions
Dasgupta, Shouro; De Cian, Enrica - 2016
development. …
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Coronavirus-lockdowns, secondary effects and sustainable exit-strategies for Sub-Saharan Africa
Frempong, Raymond Boadi; Stadelmann, David; Wild, Frederik - 2020
Pandemics and the reactions to pandemics increase the general problem of scarcity. Scarcity induced trade-offs are particularly relevant for countries in Sub-Saharan Africa as (1) the region suffers from numerous other diseases whose death toll may increase substantially due to lockdowns, (2)...
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Actors, decision-making, and institutions in quantitative system modelling
De Cian, Enrica; Dasgupta, Shouro; Hof, Andries F.; … - 2017
Increasing the realism with respect to the representation of actors, decision-making, and institutions is critical to better understand the transition towards a low-carbon sustainable society since actors, decision-making, and institutions are the defining elements of transition pathways. In...
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The service sector as India's road to economic growth?
Eichengreen, Barry; Gupta, Poonam - 2010
implications for economic development. Using National Accounts Statistics and cross-county data, we show that the growth of …
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Social responsibility as a driver for local sustainable development
Costantino, Elena; Marchello, Maria Paola; Mezzano, Cecilia - 2010
”, sustaining the multi-stakeholder approach as a driver toward local sustainable development. Firstly, theoretical approaches to … sustainable development at the territorial level will be examined, identifying the most innovative ideas about governance, network … relation and development theories. The idea of development focuses not only on the economic aspects, but on the structural and …
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Drought and civil war in Sub-Saharan Africa
Couttenier, Mathieu; Soubeyran, Raphael - 2010
In this paper, we show that drought has a positive effect on the incidence of civil war over the 1945-2005 period in Sub-Saharan Africa. We use the Palmer Drought Severity Index which is a richer measurement of drought than the measures used in the literature (rainfall and temperature) as it...
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The two waves of service-sector growth
Eichengreen, Barry; Gupta, Poonam - 2009
-known regularities in all of growth and development economics. Yet there is less than complete agreement on the nature of that …
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Energy-based economic development : mapping the developing country context
Carley, Sanya; Desai, Sameeksha; Bazilian, Morgan - 2012
Energy-based economic development (EBED) can provide economic, social and environmental benefits related to national … economic development and sustainable growth activities. As both policy and research interests in responsible mechanisms for … economic development grow, EBED benefits are becoming increasingly attractive to planners in both developed and developing …
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Does corporate social responsibility affect the performance of firms?
Comincioli, Nicola; Poddi, Laura; Vergalli, Sergio - 2012
Over the last two decades in OECD countries an increasing number of firms are obtaining certification as Socially Responsible (CSR is the acronym for Corporate Social Responsibility). Several studies (including Preston and O'Bannon, 1997; Waddock and Graves, 1997; McWilliams and Sieger, 2001; Ullman, 1985)...
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