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Trade finance as a barrier to SME internationalisation: special reference to African trade with China / Y. van Heerden
Van Heerden, Yvette - 2010
Africa. By overcoming the difficulties in obtaining trade finance, African SMEs will be able to expand into foreign markets …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009456199
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Trade unions and the informal economy in Zambia: Building strength or loosing ground?
Heidenreich, Georg; Heidenreich, Georg - 2007
The increasing casualisation of labour forces trade unions globally to deal with a growing number of unprotected and unrepresented workers in what is dubbed by the unions, even if critically, as the informal economy. This paper assesses the impact and further potential of a direct and indirect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009485581
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Studies on late Quaternary environmental dynamics (vegetation, biodiversity, climate, soils, fire and human impact) on Mt Kilimanjaro
Schüler, Lisa - 2013
Zur Rekonstruktion der jungquartären Landschaftsentwicklung am Kilimanjaro werden Sedimente aus Paläoböden am Mt Kilimanjaro untersucht, um die lokale und regionale Ökosystem-, Klima-, Feuerdynamik in einem größeren Rahmen zu verstehen. Desweiteren soll die Reaktion der Ökosysteme auf...
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Community Development Districts: The Entrepreneurial Side of Government
Scutelnicu, Gina - 2010
In an effort to reduce the cost and size of government public service delivery has become more decentralized, flexible and responsive. Public entrepreneurship entailed, among other things, the establishment of special-purpose governments to finance public services and carry out development...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009460566
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South Africa's freight transport involvement options in Sub-Saharan Africa : declining infrastructure and regulatory constraints
De Bod, Anneke - 2008
affecting all continents; Africa strugglethe most to cope with these changes. This is due to the many historicalimpediments that … Africa still has to overcome. Examples of these impedimentsare the negative effects caused by civil wars, poverty, poor … only the state of the infrastructure thatchallenges Africa - complicated customs and administrative procedures …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009442141
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The appraisal of transport infrastructure projects in the municipal sphere of government in South Africa, with reference to the city of Tshwane
Schutte, Ignatius Christiaan - 2010
The annual budget cycle in urban road/transport authorities by implication requires transport infrastructure projects to be ranked in terms of their relative value, to enable project selection by starting from the most deserving proposal. This follows from the fact that the total cost of...
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Strategic planning to protect critical infrastructure systems
Withanaarachchi, B; Setunge, S; Bajwa, S - 2010
This paper examines the protection of Critical Infrastructure (CI) within transport networks from vulnerabilities by investigating the impact of disasters such as bushfires, hurricanes and earthquakes. Damage to transport infrastructure creates a cascading effect on other critical infrastructure...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009481794
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Modelling spatial economic effects of transport infrastructure policies : a computable general equilibrium approach
Artem Korzhenevych - 2010
The purpose of this doctoral thesis is to suggest and operationalise several important extensions and improvements in the methodology used to evaluate regional economic effects of the large-scale transport infrastructure and pricing policies. The main contributions are divided into the static...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009428977
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Regionális együttműködések fejlettséget kiegyenlítő hatásai
Szabo, Barna - 2008
Az alkalmazott regressziószámítás korrigált-agregált variációs koefficiensek segítségével és az adatok pontossága mellett megállapítható, hogy a regionalizáció hatására a nemzetgazdaságok közötti gazdasági fejlettségkülönbségek kiegyenlítődnek, és a...
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