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Equity markets in developing and emerging economies have grown in number and importance as a result of financial market globalisation. However, their role in economic growth and development is enhanced if nascent markets are integrated with well-established ones. Market integration, measured by...
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This paper attempts to provide alternative estimates of income distribution in South Africa, utilizing data that allow us to evaluate income, distribution across time, reducing dependence on the vagaries associated with individual surveys. In particular, we attempt to arrive at racial...
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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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interpreted as the world business cycle. The further components suggest the existence of a Scandinavian-Anglo-Saxon business cycle …
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University-industry partnerships (UIPs) are widely viewed as essential in leveraging research capability and economic performance in organizations and the nation as a whole. In Australia, as in many other countries, the national government commits significant funds to such ‘strategic’...
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The paper analyses the production development and trade in rabbit meat in the Czech Republic, in the world and in … total volume of world meat production has been oscillating between 0,5–0,7%. The first part of the paper analyses the main … the world market. The analysis of competitiveness is made through the calculation of RCA index (the Balassa (1965) Index …
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The Petroleum Marketing Monthly (PMM) provides information and statistical data on a variety of crude oils and refined petroleum products. The publication presents statistics on crude oil costs and refined petroleum products sales for use by industry, government, private sector analysts,...
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The use of business services has had an increasingly important effect on economic performance in many industries, with the ability of firms in a given location to respond to changes in external markets, production techniques and material supplies often determined by the local provision of...
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change must impose that change upon the world as it will be configured sometime in the future rather than confine their … attention to considerations of what would happen to the world as it looks now. Initial baselines which focus on current …, it is critically important to evaluate the need for any sort of policy response to climate change in a world of smart …
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Because the Mexican government has encouraged investment in Mexico by increasing the percentage of ownership of a Mexican business that a US company can hold, joint ventures are more attractive now than they had been in the past. This study provides preliminary information for US renewable...
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