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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...
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Trade Invaders: How big business is driving the EU-India free trade negotiations
Eberhardt, Pia; Kumar, Dharmendra - 2010
India and the EU launched negotiations on a far-ranging free trade agreement (FTA) in 2007, including trade in goods, the deregulation of services, investment, government procurement and the strict enforcement of intellectual property rights. The aim is to conclude the agreement in early 2011....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468689
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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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The political economy of child labor
Maffei, Alessandro - 2005
The phenomenon of child labor is widespread in developing countries and emotionally discussed in the media and public. At present there is a well-developed and fast growing economic literature on child labor which covers the various aspects of child labor. In the first part of the thesis we give...
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Globalization and child labor
Kis-Katos, Krisztina - 2010
Dieses Buch untersucht die Auswirkungen von Globalisierung auf Kinderarbeit sowohl aus theoretischer als auch aus empirischer Perspektive, wobei der hauptsächliche Fokus auf empirischer Evidenz liegt. Das Buch präsentiert zuerst deskriptive Evidenz über die Formen und Verbreitung von...
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Essays on Strategic Behavior and Dynamic Oligopoly Competition
Steinmetz, Alexander - 2009
This thesis deals with three selected dimensions of strategic behavior, namely investment in R&D, mergers and acquisitions, and inventory decisions in dynamic oligopolies.The question the first essay addresses is how the market structure evolves due to innovative activities when firms' level of...
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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