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Protector will further dampen the economy of South Africa. It will lead to further economic downgrades by the ratings agencies … ruling ANC and, supporting the misguided notion of radical economic transformation of the economy, propounded by the … the possible devastating effects upon an already compromised economy and the, effects upon the general population. In …
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for the domestic goods and services economy. Thus, the attitudes of the policy holders, agents and insurance companies … there. Everybody should get a insurance in their risk areas so that it will be and develop the economy in a moral ways. Risk …
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The aim of this study is that the role of small and medium-sized businesses in the economic life of society is very important: it contributes to economic growth in the country, raises the level of employment, creates healthy competition, promotes the development of innovations, and solves many...
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The focus of my research is dynamic political economy in macroeconomics. The first chapter of my dissertation studies … study the Japanese economy and taxation for the past three decades. Population aging is a serious social issue in Japan … as in many standard tax models. This result emphasizes the importance of modeling a political economy, as opposed to a …
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Accountable Care Organizations are developing in the United States as a result of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. A study is needed to evaluate an emerging issue of ACOs, quality improvement infrastructure, and the pharmaceutical industry. The convergence of these topics has not...
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Corporate restructuring is normally analyzed with reference to economic imperatives and the inherited geographical structure of production. The economic landscape is assumed to be the consequence of private decisions made in response to these structural factors. If understanding and empirically...
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In a previous study of US city inflation, I emphasized the temporal regularities of urban price inflation. But, despite these identified regularities, it is apparent that the process of inflation is rarely so regular and so systematic. Unanticipated shocks in three components, energy food, and...
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Cyclical sensitivity in employment, wages, and hours worked are explored with reference to three industries and eleven US cities over the period 1972 - 1980. Conventional neoclassical discrete-exchange models of the labor market are shown to be inadequate because of marked rigidities in the...
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Employers have a variety of reasons for attempting to stabilize turnover in their labour force. For example, specific skill requirements, the added costs of training inherent in hiring new workers, and the absolute demand for labour may stimulate firms to minimize labour turnover. One way of...
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The value of credit guarantee programs has recently been called into question. Credit guarantees are important marketing tools in the world wheat market, both to develop new markets and to compete in existing markets. This study examines the additionality of export credit guarantees. Empirical...
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