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Natural Disasters and Agriculture: Individual Risk Preferences towards Flooding
Sauer, Johannes - 2011
This study contributes to the understanding of behavioural responses to climate change induced extreme weatherevents. It suggest a microeconometric method for measuring flooding related risk preferences of affectedindividuals. The method is outlined using the empirical case of agricultural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009442826
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Northwest history. Mining. Federal aid. 1934-01-12
1934
for an application to the RFC for an $11,000,000 loan to put silver and gold mining enterprises in operation. The … will be lent large low grade properties and smaller but higher grade gold properties and silver mines promising large …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009460608
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Mythbusters : the Counter-Cyclical Nature of Gold Prices & January as a Predictor of Market Performance for the Year
Hines, Zach; Nohelty, Eric; Porwoll, Matt; Buxton, Lauren - 2011
a predictor for the performance of the entireyear. The second theory is that gold is counter-cyclical to the broad …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009460858
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Performance of Gold Monetization scheme in India
Selvakumar, D.S. - 2017
India has topped with largest consumers of gold, next to china in the world. Indians prefer buying gold in the form of … jewellery and coins rather than bullion. So, central government has come up with three gold schemes namely GOLD MONETISATION … SCHEME, SOVEREIGN GOLD BOND and INDIAN GOLD COIN. The main motive of these schemes is to reduce the requirements of gold …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011586122
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Carbon mitigation potential and costs of forestry options in Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, the Philippines and Tanzania
Sathaye, J.; Makundi, W.; Andrasko, K.; Boer, R.; … - 2009
This paper summarizes studies of carbon (C) mitigation potential and costs of about 40 forestry options in seven developing countries. Each study uses the same methodological approach - Comprehensive Mitigation Assessment Process (COMAP) - to estimate the above parameters between 2000 and 2030....
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Mechanisms affecting the link between nuptiality and fertility: Tanzania, 1973
Sekatawa, Emmanuel K. - 1981
the first element. Data from the 1973 National Demographic Survey of Tanzania (NDS) are used to investigate the role of …
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Private sector development and income dynamics: A panel study of the Tanzanian labour market
Quinn, Simon; Teal, Francis - 2008
In this paper, we use a three-period panel of Tanzanian households to explore the determinants of earnings and earnings growth from 2004 to 2006. In doing so, we draw particular attention to the role of education and to the importance of heterogeneity between more and less formal occupations....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009441492
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Survival and success among African manufacturing firms
Harding, Alan; Söderbom, Måns; Teal, Francis - 2004
panel data set of firms in Ghana, Kenya and Tanzania that spans a period of five years. We find that the main determinant of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009441516