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Many products consumed on college campuses such as coffee and chocolate come from developing countries where producers are often paid insufficiently and exploited. Fair Trade certification of products guarantees producers a fair price and other social benefits. The objective of my CE/T project...
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This paper starts with the basic premise: that conventional measures of productivity growth - - -often used as a … productivity growth measure using activity analysis which integrates the externality/social output into a generalized productivity … productivity are biased upward when production of negative externalities (or bad) outputs is increasing. Conversely, this same …
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diverse networks provide diverse, novel information,and that access to novel information predicts productivity and performance … informationoverload, there are diminishing marginal productivity returns to novel information. Network diversityalso contributes to …
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The thesis consists of empirical studies on currency market as well as US equity market. A new volatility estimator …
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(from Introduction): It is often said that if entrepreneurs are the engines that drive new companies, then financing is the fuel that propels them. The best sources of funding for the newest firms in Australia are bootstrapping (creative ways of launching a business), informal investment...
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analyses suggest that this effect will be minimal if marginal productivity consideration for inter-sectoral water reallocation …
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The effects of globalization on smaller nation Caribbean states have not been thoroughly examined, and the trade performance of these states has not been evaluated since the WTO came into existence. In this paper, we report on a study that conducted a comparative analysis of selected Caribbean...
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In the last two decades, primary and secondary school enrollment rates have declined in Nigeria while enrollment rates in post-secondary school have increased. This paper estimates from the General Household Survey for Nigeria the private returns to schooling associated with levels of...
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On a topic like the environment, communication among scholars from different disciplines in the natural and social sciences is both important and difficult, but such communication has been far from perfect. Economists themselves may have contributed to some rather fundamental misunderstandings...
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of view, the mostreliable signal is the brand. Due to the territory image was earning more and more equity; an …
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