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The political economy of migration: Pakistan, Britain, and the Middle East
Ballard, Roger - 1987
Migration has brought about, and continues to be responsible for, some of the most momentous social, economic, and political changes in the contemporary world. Over the years, millions of people have moved from their rural homes in search of better paid work, usually in cities many thousands of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468670
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Is mandatory disclosure an effective consumer protection mechanism in Australian real estate markets? The perspective of Queensland industry experts
Miller, Evonne; Duncan, William D.; Christensen, Sharon A. - 2006
This exploratory qualitative study investigates the reaction of the selling side of the real estate market to the mandatory disclosure of information as a consumer protection mechanism in residential property transactions, the largest purchase most consumers will ever make. In Australia, where...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009438115
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Modernization and the fertility transition, Egypt, 1975
Issa, Mahmoud S. Abdou - 1980
This study investigates regional marital fertility differentials in Egypt and their relationship to the level of modernization of the region: defined as economic development and social and cultural change. The intermediate variables (Davis and Blake, 1965) underlying these regional levels and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009439057
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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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Hybrid Organizations as Agents of Positive Social Change: Bridging the For-profit & Non-profit Divide
Hoffman, Andrew J.; Haigh, Nardia - 2010
institutions. The chapter discusses the implications for theory and practice, and concludes with suggestions for future research. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476818
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Advancing and Resolving the Great Sustainability Debates and Discourses
Smith, Michael Harrison - 2009
decoupling this thesis advances the traditional debates and discourses about “growth”.This thesis shows that in theory and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009451445
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Improving expatriate adjustment and effectiveness in ethnically diverse countries : marketing insights
Pires, Guilherme D.; Stanton, John; Ostenfeld, Shane - University of Newcastle; University of Western Sydney; … - 2006
include the U-curve, social learning theory, and oral deprivation. How long-term arrivals overcome their culture shock is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009482173
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Economic network structures, growth and poverty
Parris, Brett - 2005
While investors are advised to diversify in order to manage risk, developing countries are advised instead to liberalise their trade regimes and specialise according to their current comparative advantage. This study uses 67 regions of the GTAP database to investigate the effects of unilateral...
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Trade and industrial policy in developing countries : what scope for interfaces between agent-based models and computable-general equilibrium models
Parris, Brett - 2005
How best to assess trade and industrial policy in developing countries is a controversial question that unlocks a host of modelling complexities. Large computable general-equilibrium (CGE) models dominate many economic policy debates, but recent developments in the field have demonstrated that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009483971
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An agent-based approach to value theory and wealth distribution in economics
Parris, Brett - 2005
areas in economics as vexed as the theory of value. I argue in this paper that the fundamental problem with past theories of … assumptions which significantly affect the results. There have been two primary approaches to the theory of value. The first … theory of value has been discredited because of its assumption that labour was the only ‘factor’ that contributed to the …
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