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Something of a Paradox: The Neglect of Agriculture in Economic Development
Bezemer, Dirk J.; Headey, Derek D. - 2006
This paper argues that investment in agriculture has a large and continuing developmental importance in terms of both economic growth and poverty reduction. Moreover, targeted public resources have proven to be indispensable in achieving these results. Both arguments are supported with novel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009442552
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Aid, Policies, and Growth: Revisiting the Evidence
Burnside, A. Craig; Dollar, David - 2004
Burnside and Dollar revisit the relationship between aid and growth using a new data set focusing on the 1990s. The evidence supports the view that the impact of aid depends on the quality of state institutions and policies. The authors use an overall measure of institutions and policies popular...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009475559
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The Chimera of 'Sustainable Development'
Beckerman, Wilfred - 2007
"Starting about the late 1960s there have been increasing fears that economic growth would soon lead to the exhaustion of raw materials and, food supplies, or environmental damage of one kind or another. These fears have been accompanied by widespread appeal to the concept of sustainable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468319
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Gender integration in enterprise development programmes
Huq, Abdul; Moyeen, Afreen - 2011
considerations should be the 'outreach', 'sustainability' and tangible 'impact' that such integration could make in attaining gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009484646
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Business sustainability and undergraduate management education in Australia
Fisher, Josie; Bonn, Ingrid - 2009
sustainability and the appropriate strategies required to improve business sustainability. In addition, there are international calls … for educators to address sustainability in their programs. The aim of this study was to investigate the extent to which … business sustainability is being incorporated into undergraduate business and management courses in Australian universities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009441710
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A Comparative Analysis of Water Quality Sampling Decisions in Aquifers
Rajagopal, Rangaswamy; Kuchibhatla, Ramana - 1995
No single set of sampling decisions is optimal for all monitoring programs. Cost-effective decisions will have to be made in an adaptive framework, constantly changing yet having a basic structure. The major objectives of this paper are to develop and illustrate such a model structure for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009466049
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The Point-of-Use Water Treatment Industry: Expert Opinion on Regulation.
Rajagopal, Rangaswamy; Tobin, Graham A - 1990
Concerns over declining water quality have led many home owners to install point-of-use water treatment units to improve potable supplies. This industry has grown considerably in recent years. However, some questions have been raised regarding misleading advertising and improper claims being...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009466075
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Optimal Environmental Policy and the Dynamic Property in LDCs
Yabuta, Masahiro - 2002
"This paper has provided a model framework of foreign assistance policy in the context of dynamic optimal control and investigated the environmental policies in LDCs that received some financial support from abroad. The model framework features a specific behavior of the social planner who...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468434
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DG V, DG VI and DG XVI [Directorates General V, VI, and XVI]
Brown, David - 1998
"Structural Funds are available as non-reimbursable grants, on the basis of co-financing ('part-financing') with the relevant Member States. The level of co-financing depends on the objective of the programme, and is up to a maximum of between 50 and 85%. There are five sets of priority...
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Four essays on empirical economics
Rauber, Michael - 2007
Die vorliegende Dissertation besteht aus vier eigenständigen Forschungsarbeiten, die ich in der Zeit von April 2004 bis Juli 2007 an der Universität Konstanz verfasst habe. Gemeinsam ist allen Arbeiten eine empirische Ausrichtung und die Erkenntnis, dass die empirische Analyse für das...
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