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Microcredit
Heverly, Barbara M.; Tierney, Lori L. - 0000
Microcredit, or small, short-term loans to the very poor, can help to bring about wholesale changes not only in personal income and the local marketplace, but also by adding meaning to life, building self-esteem and encouraging social integration. The cash advance is only the vehicle. The...
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The value of human rights on the open market: Liberal economic policies and the achievement of personal integrity rights.
Harrelson-Stephens, Julie - 2003
At the end of World War II, the United States emerged as a world leader, putting into place international institutions based on its own liberal economic philosophy. Since then, the world has witnessed an increasing interconnectedness among states, with economic relationships continually blurring...
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Repression and Newtwork Science: Tools in Fight against Terrorism
Wright, Dominick' E - 2010
The dissertation, Repression and Network Science: Tools in Fight againstTerrorism, explores what determines post‐terror repression in democracies andwhat alternative tools network science may ultimately reveal to for compellingauthorities to rely on repression less. To do this three papers...
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Changing petroleum engineering education to meet industry demand
Department of Petroleum Engineering
,it lectured the Masters in petroleum engineering course to local Australian and international students, graduatingmore than 200 … students. The rapid increase in the price of oil during 2006/7 saw a sudden and substantial growthin industry employment … students reduced to less than 10% of those taking the course. This loss in both student numbers and staff at the same time …
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Retention: rhetoric or realistic agendas for the future of higher education
Rowley, Jennifer - 2003
Full-text of this article is not available in this e-prints service. This article was originally published [following peer-review] in International Journal of Educational Management, published by and copyright Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.
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Have they learnt to interrupt?: Comparing how women management students and senior women managers in Australia perceive workplace communication dilemmas
Barrett, Mary - 2009
-year female management students evaluated strategies for the same workplace dilemmas as senior women managers (Barrett 2004 …). Findings - For short and medium term dilemmas students, like senior women managers, regarded masculine communication strategies … evaluating the strategies' probability. But when seeking promotion, students avoided some strategies they considered effective …
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VILNIAUS KOLEGIJA/UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES FACEBOOK PROFILE ATTRACTIVENEES INVESTIGATION
Išoraitė, Margarita - 2019
The well-formed Facebook profile should be well-visible and understandable, not hidden under unnecessary information. Moreover, the most successful sites have an exquisite design - the design is eye-catching and distracting, the site is pleasure to browse, easy to use, and does not contain...
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Gender Equality in Central and Eastern Europe : A Comparison of Labour Market Attitudes, Educational Achievement and Poverty between East and West
Schnepf, Sylke Viola - 2005
The transition process from centrally planned to market economies led to a dramatic fall in GDP accompanied by a tremendous increase in poverty and income inequality in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). Much of the literature argues that the costs of the transition process were not distributed...
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The complementarities of child health achievements in developing countries
Lo Bue, Maria Carmela - 2015
Diese Dissertation basiert auf einer auf den Menschen bezogenen, multidimensionalen Betrachtung von Entwicklung. Sie soll empirisch Übereinstimmungen und Determinanten der Gesundheit von Kindern in Ländern mit niedrigem und mittlerem Einkommen analysieren. Der erste Essay – mit verfasst von...
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