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Trade finance as a barrier to SME internationalisation: special reference to African trade with China / Y. van Heerden
Van Heerden, Yvette - 2010
Africa. By overcoming the difficulties in obtaining trade finance, African SMEs will be able to expand into foreign markets …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009456199
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Trade unions and the informal economy in Zambia: Building strength or loosing ground?
Heidenreich, Georg; Heidenreich, Georg - 2007
The increasing casualisation of labour forces trade unions globally to deal with a growing number of unprotected and unrepresented workers in what is dubbed by the unions, even if critically, as the informal economy. This paper assesses the impact and further potential of a direct and indirect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009485581
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Studies on late Quaternary environmental dynamics (vegetation, biodiversity, climate, soils, fire and human impact) on Mt Kilimanjaro
Schüler, Lisa - 2013
Zur Rekonstruktion der jungquartären Landschaftsentwicklung am Kilimanjaro werden Sedimente aus Paläoböden am Mt Kilimanjaro untersucht, um die lokale und regionale Ökosystem-, Klima-, Feuerdynamik in einem größeren Rahmen zu verstehen. Desweiteren soll die Reaktion der Ökosysteme auf...
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Whose Money? Whose Time? A Nonparametric Approach to Modeling Time Spent on Housework
Gupta, Sanjiv; Ash, Michael - 2006
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 possibility of an association between women’s absolute earnings and … housework. Consequently it has relied on unsupported theoretical restrictions in the modeling. We adopt a flexible …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009467900
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What Money Buys and Family Costs: Three Papers on the Work-Family Intersection.
Killewald, Alexandra Achen - 2011
the first two empirical chapters, I examine the relationship between wives’ earnings and their time in housework, testing …’t Everything: Wives’ Earnings and Housework Time”, I use fixed-effects models and data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and … find that wives reduce housework time as their earnings rise. However, the effect is highly non-linear, with high …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476715
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International oil and gas exploration and development: 1991
2008
This report starts where the previous quarterly publication ended. This first publication of a new annual series contains most of the same data as the quarterly report, plus some new material, through 1991. It also presents historical data covering a longer period of time than the previous...
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Effect of market structure on international coal trade
Kolstad, C.D.; Abbey, D.S. - 2009
examine monopoly (South Africa) and duopoly (South Africa, Australia) with a competitive fringe (US, Canada, Poland, China and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009437106
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Is providing micro-credit social responsible?
Dalglish, Carol L. - 2010
Micro-finance, which includes micro-credit as one it its services, has become big business with a range of models – from those that operate on a strictly business basis to those who come from a philanthropic base, through Non Government organisations (NGOs). Success is often measured by the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009438177
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Positive design and construction of mechanisms for the sustainable development in microenterprises in Africa
Dalglish, Carol L.; Matthews, Judy H. - 2010
Enterprise development and its contribution to societal and economic outcomes are well known. However, limited research into microenterprises and the practices of microfinance and microcredit in developing countries has been carried out. This chapter presents the findings of research based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009438352