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Encouraging entrepreneurship amongst Indigenous people, and fostering the development of small businesses, has been … advocated as the most promising avenue for economic development amongst Indigenous communities (Fuller et al., 2003 …). Unfortunately, the number of Indigenous people engaged in small businesses in Australia is quite low when compared both to the …
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The objective of this study was to assess the potential for reducing the harm resulting from tobacco use through health promotion programmes run in community stores in remote Aboriginal communities. The Tobacco Project utilised data from 111 stakeholder interviews (72 at baseline and 71 at...
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rural communities in Queensland, Australia, we suggest that more realistic and potentially effective models must: • Achieve …
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of residence, and provides a better understanding of the process of rural labor adjustments in a country in transition …
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In the United States, low-income people are not evenly distributed across the rural-urban landscape. Does this … phenomenon partly reflect that people who "choose" to live in rural areas have unmeasured attributes related to poverty? To …-being and rural/urban residential choice among a sample of 6,461 householders. A series of multivariate regression models are …
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in this study to compare the financial characteristics of urban and rural small businesses.Overall, rural small … when comparing dollar values of urban and rural small businesses because normality assumptions were violated due to the … high concentration of small firms.On average, rural and urban small businesses were strong financially and profitable …
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enhancement services, but there is little documentation on the impacts of these services on small and medium rural and … agricultural firms. The objectives of this project were to 1) analyze the export assistance needs of small and medium rural and …
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Rural communities suffer from both supply and demand-side disadvantages when dealing with Internet access …
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The environmental impact of consumer goods is becoming a growing concern in the modern world. With the increasing awareness of our daily impact and our effects on such crises as global warming, there has been a recent push to develop better environmental strategies and new industries focused on...
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