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Politics and Consumer Prices in Africa
Asongu, Asongu Simplice - African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI) - 2012
The motivations of the Arab Spring that have marked the history of humanity over the last few months have left political economists, researchers, governments and international policymakers pondering over how the quality of political institutions affect consumer welfare in terms of commodity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010862092
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QUALITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AS THE BASISS OF QUALITY ASSURANCE AT VSB-TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF OSTRAVA
Cermak, Tomasz; Hutyra, Milan - In: Polish Journal of Management Studies 1 (2010) 1, pp. 119-126
VŠB – Technical University of Ostrava (VŠB-TUO) is the first and heretofore only public university in Czech Republic that has ISO 9001 certification. The Faculty of Mechanical Engineering was the one Faculty of VŠB-TUO awarded the Czech Republic National Quality Award 2007 in the public...
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METHODICAL APPROACH TO CORPORATE SUSTAINABILITY PLANNING
Modrak, Vladimir; Dima, Ioan Constantin; Man, Mariana - In: Polish Journal of Management Studies 3 (2011) 1, pp. 157-167
The aim of this article is to present some methodical aspects of CSF. Corporate Sustainability Planning (CSP) can be defined as “the process of specific strategies and action plan development to help ensure the long-term goals”. In generally, this presents a complex process and task which...
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Entry and Competition in Differentiated Products Markets
Schaumans, Catherine; Verboven, Frank - In: The Review of Economics and Statistics 97 (2015) 1, pp. 195-209
We propose a methodology for estimating the competition effects from entry when firms sell differentiated products. We first derive precise conditions under which Bresnahan and Reiss’s entry threshold ratios (ETRs) can be used to measure competition effects. We then augment the...
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Input-Output Analysis for Rural Industrial Development of Patna Region
Kumari, Rashmi; Devadas, V - In: Journal of Regional Development and Planning 3 (2014) 2, pp. 37-50
Rural industries have a major aspect in Indian economy due to scarcity of capital; increasing unemployment; regional imbalances and disparities; inequalities in the distribution of income and wealth; and un-utilization and/or under-utilization of rural resources. This study analyses the...
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Politics and Consumer Prices in Africa
Simplice A, Asongu - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
The motivations of the Arab Spring that have marked the history of humanity over the last few months have left political economists, researchers, governments and international policymakers pondering over how the quality of political institutions affect consumer welfare in terms of commodity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009647228
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Within and Between Gender Disparities in Income and Education Benefits from Democracy
Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth Osarenti Oyelere nee Uwaifo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
There is data evidence that welfare has improved post democracy in Nigeria. However, the distribution or concentration …, across and within gender, post democracy in Nigeria is explored. I make use of simple econometric tools to test two null … hypotheses. First, there is no disparity in the income and returns to education benefits of the shift to democracy across gender …
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The new stage of the states concept evolution: example of Russia
Rakviashvili, Alexander - Faculty of Economics, M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State … - 2013
The article is dedicated to the state's concept evolution. Here is the author's vision of the state as an abstract notion that describes specific governmental relations, formatted in a result of a long evolution process. The special attention is attracted to the Russian political system and...
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Inequality in democracy: Insights from an empirical analysis of political dynasties in the 15th Philippine Congress
Beja Jr, Edsel; Mendoza, Ronald U.; Venida, Victor S.; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This paper presents metrics to estimate the size of political dynasties in the 15th Congress of the Republic of the Philippines and analyze the relationship between political dynasty and socio-economic outcomes. Results show that political dynasties comprise 70 percent of jurisdiction-based...
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Role of the State in Developing Countries: Public Choice versus Schumpeterian Approach
Demirbas, Dilek; Demirbas, Safa - In: Business and Economics Research Journal 2 (2011) 1, pp. 15-15
It is obvious that even though modern public choice theories, which were first developed for Western pluralistic societies (society-centred), might have highlighted many hidden subjects in developing countries such as rent-seeking, corruption, strong state tradition, undemocratic decision...
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