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Norberg-Hodge, Helena; Gorelick, Steven - 2004

mainly on the disastrous impacts of the global economy on food and agriculture around the world. Adequate, wholesome food is … localisation.Many people around the world have looked to the King's aspiration to foster Gross National Happiness in Bhutan for …. Neither farming nor the fabric of community has been destroyed in Bhutan as it has in other parts of the world. There is a …

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Dollarization and Macroeconomic Stability in Latin America.

Castillo, Sofia - 2006

dollarization. Data from the World Bank World Development Indicators for 21 Latin American countries from 1960 to 2003 are analyzed …This paper examines if dollarization has had a positive impact on the macroeconomic stability of Latin American …. Currently four Latin American countries are officially dollarized and the rest experience varying levels of unofficial …

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Worth the price: Sarah as hero in John Updike's "S.".

Hilton, Bonita Clarice. - Florida Atlantic University

Sarah Price Worth is a hero in mythical and psychological terms. Her growth can be traced through her name changes within the novel: Sarah Price Worth/Kundalini/Rare Sarah. She leaves the Judeo-Christian belief system and enters an Eastern system in an ashram where yoga is practiced. Sarah's...

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Culture, Services, Knowledge or "Is content King, or are we just drama Queens?"

Cunningham, Stuart D. - 2002

The paper tracks the fate of content as it passes across three grids of understanding: across the grid of ‘culture’, of ‘services’, and of ‘knowledge’. These grids also serve as historical and/or possible rationales for state intervention in the creative ndustries, as well as...

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The future of the European Common Agricultural Policy : a new philosopy ?

Boussard, Jean-Marc - 2007

While the recent commodity price crisis brings questions regarding the general developement path of the CAP since 1992, this paper envisages returning to Rooseveltian recipes, after modernization.

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The stamp of neoliberalism on the UK tonnage tax and the implications for British seafaring

Gekara, V - 2010

In 2000 the UK adopted a tonnage tax strategy on ships and related businesses as the main strategy for revitalising its declining shipping industry. In line with EU policy on shipping, UK registered shipping companies were offered fiscal incentives based on reduced corporation taxes while labour...

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The stamp of neoliberalism on the UK tonnage tax and the implications for British seafaring

Gekara, V - 2009

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Measures of environmental and sustainable socioeconomic welfare and the political economy of capitalism - theoretical reconstruction, technical specification, and critical analysis...

Brennan, Andrew John - 2009

to the national level. It is argued that they are in a one-and-a-half contradiction world: they see primarily one … it is hard to link all of them in one index. It is necessary to transcend the one-and-a-half contradiction world and have … SEWls to deal with real-world problems. A more detailed and broader approach to sustainable well-being is needed to find the …

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Improving Unsustainable Western Economic Systems

Dixon, Frank - 2004

To help guide development of the Gross National Happiness (GNH), this paper analyzes Western economic systems. Drivers of environmental and social problems will be discussed with the goal of helping Bhutan avoid these pitfalls. The paper then suggests a strategy for developing the GNH as well as...

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Sample registration of vital events with verbal autopsy: a renewed commitment to measuring and monitoring vital statistics

Setel, P. W.; Sankoh, O.; Rao, C. P. V.; Velkoff, V. A.; … - 2005

Registration of births, recording deaths by age, sex and cause, and calculating mortality levels and differentials are fundamental to evidence-based health policy, monitoring and evaluation. Yet few of the countries with the greatest need for these data have functioning systems to produce them...

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