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Enhancing business continuity management capacities in the insurance industry : a Southeast Asian perspective
Wong, Kok Loon; Barnes, Paul H. - 2011
As a resilience enhancing practice, business continuity management (BCM) can play an important role in aiding preparation of the insurance industry for coping with the losses incurred by major discontinuity incidents: regardless of cause. Acknowledging the increasing frequency of unpredictable...
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Media Coverage & Charitable Giving After the 2004 Tsunami
Brown, Philip; Minty, Jessica - 2006
Media coverage of humanitarian crises is widely believed to influence charitable giving, yet this assertion has received little empirical scrutiny. Using Internet donations after the 2004 tsunami as a case study, we show that media coverage of disasters has a dramatic impact on donations to...
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Exchange rate policy and poverty reduction
Chowdhury, Anis - University of Western Sydney; University of Western Sydney; … - 2005
The objective of this chapter is to evaluate the theoretical debate on the choice of an exchange rate regime in light of the empirical evidence with a view to suggesting appropriate exchange rate regimes that are conducive for poverty reduction. Due to its obvious implications for poverty, the...
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Labor market policies as instruments of industry policy : what can Europe learn from Southeast Asia?
Chowdhury, Anis - University of Western Sydney; University of Western Sydney - 2008
It seems there is a pessimistic view about the need and effectiveness of industry policy in an era of unprecedented globalization. The discussion about industry policy has been mostly on the fiscal, credit, and tariff measures, which are generally designed to favor particular activities....
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Markteintritt deutscher KMU in Japan ? eine theoretische und empirische Analyse anhand der Medizintechnikindustrie
Toto, Serkan - 2009
ger?t Japan im Zuge der Hinwendung deutscher Firmen nach China in der Wahrnehmung der ?ffentlichkeit zunehmend in den …??ten Absatzmarktes der Welt. Die Kernfrage dieser Untersuchung lautet: Welche Methoden des Markteintritts in Japan existieren f?r diese … von KMU besonderer Bezug genommen. Im Rahmen einer ausf?hrlichen Analyse m?glicher Markteintrittsoptionen in Japan wird im …
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Capacity building in nonprofit organisations in the development aid sector: explanatory research of capacity building in Indonesia in 2008 and an investigation into the diffusion o...
Parisi, Jacqueline - 2009
The terms capacity building and capability building are frequently heard in organisations and questions have been raised as to whether practices used in the private sector are transferable to the development aid sector.Gaps were revealed in the literature relating to conclusive definitions of...
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Zur Stabilisierung fragmentierter Staaten : Dezentralisierung, Entwicklungszusammenarbeit und das Gespenst des Separatismus
Ehrke, J?rgen - 2011
Die internationale Staatengemeinschaft steht Sezessionsbestrebungen zur Aufspaltung bestehender Staaten gew?hnlich ablehnend gegen?ber. Gleichzeitig wendet sie in vielen L?ndern Instrumente der Entwicklungspolitik an und greift so auch in den dortigen politischen Prozess ein. Untersucht wird,...
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Political Economy in a globalized world ; How politics, culture, and institutional incentives shape economic and political outcomes
Gehring, Kai - 2015
kurzfristiger politischer Motive auf die Effektivität von Entwicklungshilfe. Dabei testen wir, ob der Effekt der Hilfe auf … widerspiegeln sind ungeeignet als ökonometrische Instrumente für Entwicklungshilfe. Dies weckt Zweifel an einer großen Anzahl …
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