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Trade finance as a barrier to SME internationalisation: special reference to African trade with China / Y. van Heerden
Van Heerden, Yvette - 2010
Africa. By overcoming the difficulties in obtaining trade finance, African SMEs will be able to expand into foreign markets …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009456199
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Trade unions and the informal economy in Zambia: Building strength or loosing ground?
Heidenreich, Georg; Heidenreich, Georg - 2007
The increasing casualisation of labour forces trade unions globally to deal with a growing number of unprotected and unrepresented workers in what is dubbed by the unions, even if critically, as the informal economy. This paper assesses the impact and further potential of a direct and indirect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009485581
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Studies on late Quaternary environmental dynamics (vegetation, biodiversity, climate, soils, fire and human impact) on Mt Kilimanjaro
Schüler, Lisa - 2013
Zur Rekonstruktion der jungquartären Landschaftsentwicklung am Kilimanjaro werden Sedimente aus Paläoböden am Mt Kilimanjaro untersucht, um die lokale und regionale Ökosystem-, Klima-, Feuerdynamik in einem größeren Rahmen zu verstehen. Desweiteren soll die Reaktion der Ökosysteme auf...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010353240
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Fertility in South Dublin a Century Ago: A First Look
Guinnane, Timothy W.; Moehling, Carolyn M.; Grada, Cormac O - 2001
Ireland’s relatively late and feeble fertility transition remains poorly-understood. The leading explanations stress … samples from the 1911 census of Ireland to study fertility in Dublin and Belfast. Our larger project aims to use the extensive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009444183
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Mit Sicherheit besser? : Aktivierung und Flexicurity in Dänemark
Bogedan, Claudia - 2005
Labour market policies in Denmark, especially measures for the unemployed, recently received much attention, because of …. Denmark offers a flexible labour market with minimal regulations combined with high social security. This ‘flexicurity’ has …. However, Denmark has been able to embed activation into the tradition of a generous and universal welfare state. The paper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009466406
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Regional marriage patterns and trends in Northern Sudan
Abdelrahman, Abdelrahman Ibrahim - 1989
Marriage is an important institution for both individuals and society as a whole. It is a significant event in the life cycle of individuals; for society at large it represents the creation of a new unit of production, consumption, distribution and exchange of goods and services. In most...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009438848
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Demographic trends in Sub-Saharan Africa
van de Walle, Etienne; Kekovole, John - 1986
The study of demographic trends in sub-Saharan Africa though crucial in the assessment of the impact of population size … Cameroon; and child mortality in North Sudan and Senegal. Overall mortality levels are high in Western and Central Africa and … low in Eastern and Southern Africa. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009438868
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Modernization and the fertility transition, Egypt, 1975
Issa, Mahmoud S. Abdou - 1980
This study investigates regional marital fertility differentials in Egypt and their relationship to the level of modernization of the region: defined as economic development and social and cultural change. The intermediate variables (Davis and Blake, 1965) underlying these regional levels and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009439057
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Mechanisms affecting the link between nuptiality and fertility: Tanzania, 1973
Sekatawa, Emmanuel K. - 1981
The analytical framework proposed by Davis and Blake (1956) divides the process of reproduction into three elements: (i) exposure to the risk of pregnancy, (ii) the ability to conceive and (iii) successful gestation. This paper is concerned with the first element. Data from the 1973 National...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009439137