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A Good Time for Gross National Happiness
Bakshi, Rajni - 2004
This essay will examine just some signs of change in economic and social thought in the North-South relations. It does not attempt to offer a comprehensive overview of the creative possibilities for positive change that are now visible on the world stage. The basic premise of this exploration is...
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Gross National Happiness: Towards a New Paradigm in Economics
Tideman, Sander G. - 2004
theory. GNH can be regarded as the Buddhist equivalent to Gross National Product (GNP), which is the conventional indicator …
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Is Courtesy Enough?Solidarity in Call Center Interactions
Rogers, Priscilla - 2008
insurance company call center. We adopted a grounded theory methodology together with a rich triangulation of qualitative … response strategies that are tightly related to each other and to courtesy: shows solidarity, anticipates needs, shows … attentiveness, and asks for direction. Correlations and analysis of their enactment in stressful calls led us to propose solidarity …
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Is Kazakhstan a Market Economy Yet? Getting warmer….
Eicher, Sharon - 2004
Transition from planned to a market economy is an evolutionary process. Evolutions do not have finite beginning and ending points. We may look to the beginning of transition in 1991 when the Soviet Union broke up, or we may see it as beginning earlier, when the Soviet Union began to allow its...
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Can Increased Trade Prevent Conflict with China?
Rush, Stephen - 2007
In the early 1990s, the United States began to run a significant trade deficit with China due to the dual forces of greater trade liberalization and China’s transition from a command economy towards a market economy. Proponents of free trade with China argue that greater integration will lead...
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Aspects regarding the economic transition of Romania
Mihai, Luca Dumitru - 2021
The purpose of this article is to briefly present the actions taken in Romania's economic transition from a centralized to a market economy and to explain why and where it went wrong. Wrong decisions taken in the transition process will be highlighted, while noting that measures to implement...
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Effect of policy-based bioenergy demand on southern timber markets: A case study of North Carolina.
Abt, Robert C.; Abt, Karen L.; Cubbage, Frederick W.; … - 2010
Key factors driving renewable energy demand are state and federal policies requiring the use of renewable feedstocks to produce energy (renewable portfolio standards) and liquid fuels (renewable fuel standards). However, over the next decade, the infrastructure for renewable energy supplies is...
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Trust and the performance construction of markets
Beckert, Jens - 2005
theory. Nevertheless, the actual functioning of trust in markets has only been understood incompletely up to now. As this …
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The Ability of the Associate Reform States of Central and Eastern Europe to Free Trade with the European Union
Filsinger, Michael J. - 1997
The young market economies of the states in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) are knocking at the door of the EuropeanUnion. This led public and economic discussion to a debate on the question, if, considering the relative economicunderdevelopment of the reform countries compared with the...
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Die Integration der Länder Mittel- und Osteuropas in die Europäische Union. Gründe und Auswirkungen der Güterströme zwischen beiden Regionen.
Filsinger, Michael J. - 1997
Die jungen Marktwirtschaften der Staaten Mittel- und Osteuropas streben nach der Mitgliedschaft in der Europäischen Union.Bereits im April 1998 werden erste Beitrittsverhandlungen mit fünf Ländern aus der Region beginnen. Die ökonomischeProblematik einer Integration der Reformländer in den...
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