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The relationship between net private capital flows and economic growth in emerging Asian economies
Vo, Xuan Vinh; Daly, Kevin James - University of Western Sydney; University of Western Sydney; … - 2004
Net private capital flows (Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), Portfolio Investment and private credit flows) to emerging market economies declined significantly after the 1997 Financial Crisis. In 2002, the world's net private capital flows to emerging markets declined to the lowest level in the...
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Economic development at the Port of Brunswick: an analysis of the impact of infrastructure improvements
Rivera, Ashley Caron - 2010
Between 1999 and 2007, a series of infrastructure improvements were completed at the Port of Brunswick, Georgia, in order to increase cargo capacity at the port. This paper looks at the port for indications of economic development generated through this infrastructure investment. Infrastructure...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476045
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Crescimento dos vales do Tietê e Paraná: um enfoque de estoques de capitais
Bernardes, Elaine Mendonca; Peres, Fernando Curi; … - 2007
The study aimed at identifying factors limiting the Tietê and Paraná valleys economic growth. Specifically, it analyzed the importance of the capital stocks for economic growth of these and the other counties in São Paulo State. Nine factors were generated by Principal Components Method to...
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Bolivien: Armut schweißt zusammen
Winter, Johannes - 2007
Die Verstaatlichungspolitik der sozialistischen Regierung spaltet die bolivianische Gesellschaft. Generell ist der Andenstaat ein Land voller Gegensätze: Das Nebeneinander unterschiedlicher Ethnien, starke ökonomische und regionale Disparitäten und die trotz Ressourcenreichtum verbreitete...
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The employment of Virtual Reality in tourism-oriented online communication: an economics of information perspective
Herstell, Jan - 2008
rasantes Wachstum erfahren und dazu geführt, dass im Bereich des internetbasierten Tourismus eine besonders ausgeprägte … Virtual Reality (VR) im Tourismus die Ausnahme und wird damit nicht gezielt genutzt, um Informationen dreidimensional und … transformieren und die nachfragerseitige Bedeutung der Vertrauenseigenschaften mindern kann. Somit kann in der im Tourismus …
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Tourism, Climate Change and the Coastal Zone
Hamilton, Jacqueline Margaret - 2005
pattern of tourism demand. Despite the cultural and economic importance of tourism and its overwhelming dependence on climatic … factors, relatively few studies have tackled the impact of climate change on tourism. In particular there are few quantitative … studies on the effect that climate change will have on tourism. The aim of this thesis is to fill the research gap and so …
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Fundacion Maquipucuna: an entrepreneurial Ecuadorian non-profit organisation
Ratten, Vanessa - 2011
The purpose of this paper is to describe Fundacion Maquipucuna's community-based entrepreneurship activities. Fundacion Maquipucuna is a unique non-profit organisation in the Choco-Andes region of Ecuador. An ethnographic study and review of the literature is conducted to analyse the cacao,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009484004
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Destination management in the South Bohemian region
Škodová Parmová, Dagmar - 2012
For a healthy development of tourism and all activities in the frame of this industry in the region it is necessary to …. The negative aspects of mass tourism e.g. transport pollution and seasonal price increase, must be balanced by positive … sides of tourism. For this task it is necessary to find a complex solution of this situation - destination management. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011316102
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Overview of Geopressured-Geothermal
Jelacic, Allan - 2006
Dr. Mock began the session by paying tribute to Dr. Myron Dorfman, Professor of Petroleum Engineering at the University of Texas, who had just passed away after a protracted illness. Dr. Dorfman, more than other any individual, was responsible for bringing the geopressured-geothermal...
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SUCCESSFUL PRIVATIZATION OF HANFORD SITE FABRICATION SERVICES
KELLY, D.S. - 2008
This paper describes the elements of Fluor Hanford's successful privatization of a major support services function. The privatization has accelerated the closure of the Department of Energy's Hanford Site by streamlining operations and using the realized cost savings to maintain the accelerated...
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