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While investors are advised to diversify in order to manage risk, developing countries are advised instead to liberalise their trade regimes and specialise according to their current comparative advantage. This study uses 67 regions of the GTAP database to investigate the effects of unilateral...
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How best to assess trade and industrial policy in developing countries is a controversial question that unlocks a host of modelling complexities. Large computable general-equilibrium (CGE) models dominate many economic policy debates, but recent developments in the field have demonstrated that...
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Any attempt to model an economy requires foundational assumptions about the relations between prices, values and the distribution of wealth. These assumptions exert a profound influence over the results of any model. Unfortunately, there are few areas in economics as vexed as the theory of...
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with a particular high-risk lifestyle. Anthropological studies in some suburbs of Cape Town, in which a very high number of … lifestyle. OBJECTIVE: To investigate various risk factors and places of transmission of tuberculosis using a geographical …
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decision support system recommends the best lifestyle changes for an individual to lower the risk of cardiovascular disease … between lifestyle and CVD, and then generate recommendations based on individual factors including preference and physical … condition. The results demonstrate several recommendation strategies: a whole plan of lifestyle changes, a package of n …
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A number of lifestyle merchandising and advertising strategies are being used in the home furnishings industry. However … consumers' attitudes toward the lifestyle concept. Analyses of several consumer behavior variables and descriptors offered … noteworthy findings for the home furnishings industry. This study found that although lifestyle orientation is a valuable tool …
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linked to risk factors resulting frompersonal lifestyle choices. The growing evidence of the user's need to makepersonal …, informed, lifestyle choices and their reliance on the Web for healthinformation, required investigation. WELLNESS, a specific … personal, informed lifestyle choice by the WELLNESS health information seeker could potentially contribute to the reduction of …
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life-style choices (drinking, smoking, exercise) and income on six measures of health in the US Health and Retirement Study …
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internal social driver that values the farming lifestyle is a principle factor that leads people to choose farming …. Irrespective of location, farming is first and foremost a lifestyle choice. The choice of type of production system is partly a … lifestyle preference and partly influenced by other external factors, including economic and environmental elements. A second …
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