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Duflo, Esther; Pande, Rohini - 2005

The construction of large dams is one of the most costly and controversial forms of public infrastructure investment in developing countries, but little is known about their impact. This paper studies the productivity and distributional effects of large dams in India. To account for endogenous...

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Gross National Happiness: Can Environmental Economics Offer a Way Forward?

Sharrock, Guy - 1999

The aim of this article is to suggest that economic planning concepts and tools currently exist which might be of practical interest to those individuals working within the Royal Government of Bhutan (RGOB) who are responsible for interpreting and applying in practice the concept of Gross...

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Globale Strukturen und deren Steuerung : Auswertung der Ergebnisse eines Förderprogramms der VolkswagenStiftung

Mayntz, Renate - 2005

Das Vorhaben, über das hier zu berichten ist, geht auf eine Anregung des Max-Planck-Instituts fürGesellschaftsforschung (MPIfG) im Frühjahr 2003 zurück, die von der VolkswagenStiftung aufgegriffenund als Projekt finanziell gefördert wurde. Ausgangspunkt war die Beobachtung, dass in den...

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Convergence within national diversity : a comparative perspective on the regulatory state in finance

Lütz, Susanne - 2003

The institutional governance approach sees national economies embedded in a bundle of non-market types of coordination (e.g. corporate hierarchies, networks, associations and the state). Governance oriented research explores configurations of governance types in sectoral, regional and national...

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Steuerbarkeit gesamtwirtschaftlicher Entwicklung aus systemtheoretischer Sicht - Nachhaltigkeit durch Innovationsf?rderung und die japanische Umwelt- und Wirtschaftspolitik

K?ster, Ilona - 2004

Die Dissertation versucht, durch eine Synthese aus Entwicklungs- und Systemtheorie in Kombination mit Umselt?konomie einen alternativen Ansatz f?r die Erkl?rung von wirtschaftlicher Entwicklung allgemein und den Aufstieg der japanischen Umweltindustrie im besonderen zu finden. Neben einem...

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Female Entrepreneurs in Transitional Economies: a comparative study of Businesswomen in Nigeria and China

Kitching, Beverley; Woldie, Atsese - 2004

Nigeria and China. As the OECD Conferences on Women Entrepreneurs in Small and Medium Enterprises held in Paris in 1997 and … difficult(OECD, 1998, 2001). Should China and Nigeria follow a similar pattern to other societies during the development process …

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Mother's income and child mortality in southern Nigeria

Sulaiman, Ismaila Lawal - 1987

Material resources affect the levels of mortality. In cross-sectional relationships income has been found to be positively associated with survival, both within and between countries. Preston (1975, 1976), in particular, using cross-national data for three separate decades of the 20th century,...

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Oil-dependence and civil conflict in Nigeria

Oyefusi, Aderoju - 2007

This paper examines oil-dependence and civil conflict in Nigeria focusing on the economic dynamics of resource … of oil-dependence in Nigeria. …

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Pricing and operational efficiencies in the livestock feed market in Ondo State, Nigeria

Oguntade, Adegboyega E.; Mafimisebi, Taiwo E. - 2010

feed industry in Ondo State, Nigeria. …

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Estimation of Actual and Potential Adoption Rates and Determinants of Improved Rice Variety Among Rice Farmers in Nigeria: The Case of NERICAs

Dontsop Nguezet, Paul Martin; Diagne, Aliou; Okoruwa, … - 2010

rates and their determinants of the NERICA (New Rice for Africa) rice varieties in Nigeria. Empirical evidence shows that …. NERICA awareness was found to be a major constraint to NERICA adoption in Nigeria. Several socioeconomic … occupation, year of experience and vocational training. In particular, we have found that the NERICA adoption rate in Nigeria …

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