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This Special Issue of the Chair of Public Management's publication series presents some results of a student research … seminar. Following Mintzberg's approach of management research, we posed the question, What do public managers really do? when …Dieses Sonderheft der Schriftenreihe des Lehrstuhls für Public Management präsentiert ausgewählte Ergebnisse eines …
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. Interestingly, this analysis of Jatropha hedges and oil milling schemes in rural Zimbabwe shows that energy crops such as Jatropha …
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This paper uses five life histories from three locations in Zimbabwe - one peri-urban, one urban and one rural to … Zimbabwe's recent economic and political turmoil. Together the cases suggest that, similar to Hoddinott's work on the … persistence of the 1993-94 rainfall shock in rural Zimbabwe, above and beyond increased mortality rates and morbidity levels …
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In recent decades, Zimbabwe's development record has been disappointing. In the last few years, a severe drought and …
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Zimbabwe and other developing countries struggle to achieve millennium development goals originally set for 2015. To … maternal healthcare services use in Zimbabwe. A logistic model for four different maternal healthcare services using data from … the 2005/6 Zimbabwe Demographic Health Survey was estimated. Secondary education increases the odds of use of maternal …
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In a recent review article Jonas Agell, Thomas Lindh and Henry Ohlsson (1997) claim that theoretical and empirical evidence does not allow any conclusion on whether there is a relationship between the rate of economic growth and the size of the public sector. They illustrate their conclusion...
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Government-run entities are often more labor-intensive than private companies, even with identical production technologies. This need not imply slack in the public sector, but may be a rational response to its wage tax advantage over private firms. A tax-favored treatment of public production...
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Innovation is the major driver of economic growth and development. To analyze innovation processes the restriction of a framework suited to the analysis of innovation towards the industrial sphere of an economy is not sufficient because of the important co-evolutionary dimensions of innovation....
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Recent controversy has surrounded the relative value of public and private sector remuneration. We define a comprehensive measure of Total Reward (TR) which includes not just pay, but pensions and other 'benefits in kind', evaluate it as the present value of the sum of all these payments over...
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Dieses Literatur-Review verfolgt angesichts des gegenwärtigen, gesteigerten öffentlichen Interesses zum Thema von Arbeitszeitverkürzungsmodellen mit Gehaltsausgleich das Ziel, den aktuellen deutsch- und englischsprachigen Forschungsstand zum möglichen Nutzen von Arbeitszeitverkürzungen mit...
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