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DETERMINANTS OF ADAPTATION TO DEFORESTATION AMONG FARMERS IN MADAGALI LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF ADAMAWA STATE, NIGERIA
MUSTAPHA S.B.; BZUGU P.M.; ALI I.M.; ABDULLAHI A. - In: Russian Journal of Agricultural and Socio-Economic Sciences 8 (2012) 3, pp. 15-20
The study examined the determinants of adaptation to deforestation among farmers in Madagali Local Government Area of … major (42%) cause of deforestation in the study area. The result showed that the most (30.50%) frequently employed … adaptation strategy against deforestation was reducing quantity of fire wood consumption. The study further showed that the …
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Research on Small Firm Growth: A Review
Davidsson, Per; Achtenhagen, Leona; Naldi, Lucia - 2005
Studies of small firm growth are no longer short in supply. On the contrary, as demonstrated by recent reviews, dozens and dozens of empirical research studies on this topic can be compiled. This does not necessarily mean that we know everything we want to know about small firm growth. In fact,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009437877
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Experience as a moderator of involvement and satisfaction on brand loyalty in a business-to-business setting 02-314R
Bennett, R.; Hartel, C. E. J.; McColl-Kennedy, J. R. - 2005
This paper examines the relative influence of two key antecedents of brand loyalty-satisfaction and involvement and the moderating role of experience, using a sample of business buyers. The central argument of this paper is that the strength of the effect of these variables on attitudinal brand...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009448097
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What drives fiscal decentralisation? Further assessing the role of income
Bodman, Philip; Hodge, Andrew - 2010
This paper investigates the determinants of fiscal decentralisation, focusing in particular on the impact of the level …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009448196
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SHORT- AND MEDIUM-TERM DETERMINANTS OF CURRENT ACCOUNT BALANCES IN MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA COUNTRIES
Aristovnik, Aleksander - 2007
The main aim of the paper is to examine the short- and medium-term empirical link between current account balances and a broad set of (economic) variables proposed by theoretical and empirical literature. The paper focuses on the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), an economically diverse...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476893
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Exploring the characteristics of the market-driven firms and antecedents to sustained competitive advantage
Weerawardena, Jay; OCass, Aron - 2004
During the last few decades, identifying and examining the characteristics of market-driven firms have been a dominant theme in strategic marketing research. It has been argued that market-driven firms are superior in their market sensing and customer linking capabilities, enabling market-driven...
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Improving Child Survival Through Environmental and Nutritional Interventions: The Importance of Targeting Interventions Toward the Poor
Gakidou, E.; Oza, S.; Fuertes, C.V.; Li, A.Y.; Lee, D.K.; … - 2007
Context The United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) set targets related to important global poverty, health, and sustainability issues. A critical but underinvestigated question for planning and allocating resources toward the MDGs is how interventions related to one MDG might affect...
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The determinants of the internationalization speed of Portuguese university spin-offs: An empirical investigation
Teixeira, Aurora; Coimbra, Cátia - In: Journal of International Entrepreneurship 12 (2014) 3, pp. 270-308
La velocidad de internacionalización de las empresas ha sido considerablemente estudiada en las últimas décadas. Sin embargo, con respecto a un determinado tipo de empresa, las Spin-off Universitarias, esta línea de investigación es aún incipiente. La mayoría de los estudios sobre las...
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Influence of the economic cycle on the determinants of nascent entrepreneurial activity. An empirical analysis of the Spanish case
Martínez Mateo, Jesús; Mira Solves, Ignacio; Gómez … - In: INVESTIGACIONES REGIONALES - Journal of REGIONAL RESEARCH (2013) 26, pp. 19-45
determinants of entrepreneurship in different stages of the economic cycle. The results confirm the significance of self efficacy …
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Determinants of Local Currency Bonds and Foreign Holdings: Implications for Bond Market Development in the People’s Republic of China
Bae, Kee-Hong - Office of Regional Economic Integration, Asian … - 2012
This case study explores which variables—macroeconomic, institutional, and capital controls—are most important in explaining cross-country differences in bond market development. It uses the ratio of amount of local currency bonds outstanding over GDP as a measure of bond market development...
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