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Zimbabwe has a wealth of natural resources and is rich in biodiversity. The national Government is trying to achieve private sector led economic growth and the challenge to pursue both economic development and sound environmental management at the same time appears clear. The objective of this...
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The literature on the impact of trade on labour market outcomes has experienced a remarkable evolution in recent decades. Theory has moved on from oversimplified to more comprehensive models that take into account previously disregarded characteristics of firms and of product and labour markets,...
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This chapter examines the patterns of consumption and production in the Philippines and analyses their impact on the …" that the Philippines stands to gain from any action to "switch" consumption and production to more sustainable patterns. …
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This chapter reviews the empirical evidence on the levels and trends in income/consumption inequality and poverty in … on average the levels of national income inequality in the developing world increased in the 1980s and 1990s, and … declined in the 2000s. There was a remarkable fall in income poverty since the early 1980s, driven by the exceptional …
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This paper examines the evolution of a skew distribution of firm sizes from the viewpoint of the 'Bounds' approach to market structure. It confines attention to the role played by non-strategic factors (statistical independence, and cost side effects). A model is proposed, which leads to a...
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A quality-adjusted specification of labor is suggested which allows firm training to affect labor efficiency. To assess the cost and productivity effects, this specification is integrated into a flexible neoclassical cost function. The empirical analysis uses panel data for eight plants in the...
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dataset of over 4,000 enterprises and considers both the prior educational attainment of workers and in-service training … programs of enterprises. Differences between small, medium-sized, and large enterprises and between countries are also … productivity. The productivity of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) is enhanced by a higher level of skills and education …
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position. A very important role in improving the innovativeness of enterprises, regions or the national economy is played by …
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Implementation and usage of the latest inventions in information technology provides enterprises better position on the … improve many of the enterprises collaboration operations and support decision making process. The best results of RFID usage …. Goal of this paper is to evaluate trends and purposes of RFID usage among enterprises in European Union. We also analyse …
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