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What about skills? A discussion of the role of skills in the strategic positioning of ports as essential catalysts of trade and economic growth.
Gekara, V - 2010
projected steady economic expansion over the next two decades, with associated trade and port throughput growth, current … discussions about port expansion and the strategic positioning of the ports industry become essential. An important part of this … discussion is the sustainability of skills in key commercial and safety-critical areas of port operations. This paper reports on …
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From transocean routes to global networks: a framework for liner companies to build service networks, Journal of Telekommunications and Information Technology, 2008, nr 3
Shi, Xiaoning; Vo?, Stefan
During the previous two decades liner carriers within maritime shipping have broken the barriers from being pure transportation providers towards being logistics service providers. Most of the top 20 liner carriers worldwide hale set up spin-offs providing services from local booking up to 3rd...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009482357
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Migration, Remittances, Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction: Reflections on Some South Asian Developments
Ballard, Roger - 2005
This report presents a global account of the historical relationship between migration, industrialization and economic growth, and then goes on to present an empirical examination of the dynamics immigration from Mirpur (Pakistan) and Jullundur (India) to the UK. It closes by considering the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468669
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Processes of consolidation and settlement in remittance-driven Hawala transactions between the UK and South Asia
Ballard, Roger - 2003
migrants to South Asia, their region of origin. …
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Unequal Relations between Comecon and Developing Countries in South Asia
Jürgenmeyer, Clemens - 1980
In diesem Besprechungsaufsatz setzt sich der Autor mit dem 1977 erschienenen Buch "Die Außenwirtschaftsbeziehungen des COMECON mit den Entwicklungsländern. Unter besonderer Berücksichtigung Südasiens" von Jiri Elias auseinander. Clemens Jürgenmeyer weist daraufhin, dass die wirtschaftlichen...
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Microfinance in the Improvement of Living Standard and GNH
Bandyopadhyay, Saugata - 2008
This paper mainly aims to extend the philosophy of capability development at the micro level for achieving individual happiness as a part of a community through social transformation and to achieve happiness at individual and community level. One of the main indicators for Gross National...
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Special Issue On Estimation Of Baselines And Leakage In CarbonMitigation Forestry Projects
Sathaye, Jayant A.; Andrasko, Kenneth - 2009
estimation of leakage inprojects in developing Asia and Latin America. …
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Outlook and challenges to coal in Asia: 1994--2015
Johnson, C.J.; Li, B. - 2009
The two key threats to coal`s long term dominance in Asia are: (1) its uneven distribution of reserves and lack of … deterioration of the environment in Asia for another one to two decades. China will remain the largest polluter in Asia, but it …`s believed it will become Asia`s largest user of emissions control technology by 2015. The authors have subjectively weighed the …
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