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Strategic Pricing Behavior under Asset Value Maximization
Wang, Shinn-Shyr; Stiegert, Kyle W.; Dhar, Tirtha Pratim - 2005
. The model built on the nonlinear Almost Ideal Demand Systems (AIDS) and structural first-order conditions is developed. By …
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Imports versus Domestic Production: A Demand System Analysis of the U.S. Red Wine Market
Seale, James L.; Merchant, Mary - 2002
-difference version of the almost ideal demand system (AIDS). Expenditure elasticity results indicate that if U.S. total expenditures on …
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Evolution of Antiretroviral Drug Costs in Brazil in the Context of Free and Universal Access to AIDS Treatment
Nunn, Amy S; Fonseca, Elize M; Bastos, Francisco I; … - 2007
Background: Little is known about the long-term drug costs associated with treating AIDS in developing countries …. Brazil's AIDS treatment program has been cited widely as the developing world's largest and most successful AIDS treatment … program. The program guarantees free access to highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) for all people living with HIV/AIDS …
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Whose Money? Whose Time? A Nonparametric Approach to Modeling Time Spent on Housework
Gupta, Sanjiv; Ash, Michael - 2006
We argue that earlier quantitative research on the relationship between heterosexual partners’ earnings and time spent on housework has two basic flaws. First, it has focused on the effects of women’s shares of couples’ total earnings on their housework, and has not considered the simpler...
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Designing self sustaining support for micro-enterprises in sub-Saharan Africa : a pilot
Dalglish, Carol L.; Matthews, Judy H. - 2009
Small and micro-enterprises play a significant part in most economies. However, in developing countries these enterprises have often been planned and implemented from a poverty alleviation perspective, rather than as entrepreneurial activities and growing businesses (Mead & Liedholm 1998, Toye...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009438144
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Regional marriage patterns and trends in Northern Sudan
Abdelrahman, Abdelrahman Ibrahim - 1989
Marriage is an important institution for both individuals and society as a whole. It is a significant event in the life cycle of individuals; for society at large it represents the creation of a new unit of production, consumption, distribution and exchange of goods and services. In most...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009438848
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Demographic trends in Sub-Saharan Africa
van de Walle, Etienne; Kekovole, John - 1986
The study of demographic trends in sub-Saharan Africa though crucial in the assessment of the impact of population size and growth on the overall socio-economic development in the region, has received the least attention due to lack of reliable data for most of the countries. This paper focuses...
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The development of a strategic business plan to grow the mining and minerals division of Kellogg Brown & Root into Sub-Saharan Africa
Carvelas, Wray Anthony - 1999
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Globally the mining and minerals market is experiencing a decline. With this decline, focus is turning to Africa as an unexplored mineral wealth. In terms of global exploration expenditure, Africa is said to be experiencing the highest percentage growth of any other regional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009442049
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South Africa's freight transport involvement options in Sub-Saharan Africa : declining infrastructure and regulatory constraints
De Bod, Anneke - 2008
Although global changes like political security, depletion of natural resources,energy supply and global warming are affecting all continents; Africa strugglethe most to cope with these changes. This is due to the many historicalimpediments that Africa still has to overcome. Examples of these...
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Rice Miller Cluster in Ghana and Its Effects on Efficiency and Quality Improvement
Sakurai, Takeshi; Furuya, Jun; Futakuchi, Koichi - 2006
This paper investigates the roles of industrial cluster on the efficiency of rice milling and the improvement of milled rice quality. The data were obtained in Kumasi area, central Ghana because the enhancement of domestic rice production is a urgent policy issue in this country, but little...
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