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Office of Inspector General report on audit of Department of Energy`s activities designed to recover the taxpayers` investment in the Clean Coal Technology Program
2009
ability to recover the taxpayers` investment. These decisions exempted foreign sales, excluded some domestic sales on certain … of the taxpayers` $151 million investment in these six projects and may limit its opportunity to recover future …
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Efficiency of the rural development and multi-functional agriculture operational programme
Střeleček, František; Lososová, Jana; Zdeněk, Radek - 2012
The gross fixed capital of the Czech agriculture is one of the lowest in the EU. Low investment influences the cost …. European programmes supporting investment to agriculture are aimed at supporting the modernization of agricultural holdings … with low investment both building and technology of animal and plant production. The Rural Development and Multi …
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Essays on Migration and Agricultural Development
Gonzalez Velosa, Carolina - 2011
labor shortages, remittances can be a source of insurance and investment finance that fosters agricultural development …
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The development of market-oriented cooperatives within the fruit industry in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam: A theory building approach to understanding rural development outcomes
Rankin, M.; Dunne, A. J.; Russell, I. - 2008
This paper presents the preliminary results of one case study from a longitudinal research project. The purpose was to develop a theoretical framework to explain the dynamic development of market-oriented cooperatives within the fruit industry in the Mekong Delta based on empirical data...
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Derivative markets and economic growth: Is there a relationship?
Baluch, A.; Ariff, Mohamed - 2007
The spread of capital markets during the half century to-date is a notable global phenomenon in economic development. Derivative markets spread globally in the last quarter century spreading form just two to some 50 in 2007. But the role of derivative markets to economic development has yet been...
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Comparative Analysis of the Impact of the Four Elements of Strategic Plan on Product and Market Development in Zinc Companies
Jafari, Mostafa; Eslami, Mina - 2017
Objective :This study was to analyze the impact of each of four elements of strategic plan (vision processing, analysis of external environment, inter- organization analysis and strategic control) on product and market development in zinc companies in Zanjan province.Methodology:Based on...
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Drivers Impacting the Adoption of Sustainable Agricultural Management Practices and Production Systems of the Northeast and Southeast United States.
Sassenrath, G.F.; Halloran, J.M.; Archer, D.; Raper, R.L.; … - 2010
Agricultural production responds to social, political, economic, environmental, and technological drivers that influence producers' decisions and shape the individual systems through modification of management practices, crop and livestock mix, and marketing strategy. We use an interview and...
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Average System Cost Methodology : Administrator's Record of Decision.
United States. Bonneville Power Administration. - 2009
Significant features of average system cost (ASC) methodology adopted are: retention of the jurisdictional approach where retail rate orders of regulartory agencies provide primary data for computing the ASC for utilities participating in the residential exchange; inclusion of transmission costs;...
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Long-Term Unemployment and Subsidizing Vacancies in a Growth-Matching Model
Birk, Angela - 2001
subsidies will be favorable for achieving a reduction in long-term unemployment.Wie kann die Langzeitarbeitslosigkeit durch …
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Strategic Behavior and Trade in Agricultural Commodities - Competition in World Peanut Markets
Fletcher, Stanley M.; Nadolnyak, Denis A. - 2006
In this paper, we make an attempt to rationalize the strategic behavior of major peanut exporting and importing countries in the framework of imperfectly competitive markets with the focus on the global and inter-American peanut trade. This study is motivated by the fact that liberalizing...
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