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Assessing market for multi-national corporations at Nigeria's bottom of the pyramid: Hints from consumer behaviour
Adebayo, Nathaniel Adeyemi - In: International Journal of Management, Economics and … 2 (2013) 3, pp. 157-186
MNCs at Nigeria's BoP. The primary data for this study were collected using Questionnaires administered to consumers in … South Western Nigeria. The secondary data used were obtained from the National Bureau of Statistics Surveys; 2009 … regression analysis on determinants of consumption at Nigeria's Bottom of the Pyramid. Findings of the study were mostly in …
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Spatial Segregation and Socio-Economic Mobility in European Cities
van Ham, Maarten; Tammaru, Tiit; de Vuijst, Elise; … - 2016
Income inequality is increasing in European cities and this rising inequality has a spatial footprint in cities and neighbourhoods. Poor and rich people are increasingly living separated and this can threaten the social sustainability of cities. Low income people, often with an ethnic minority...
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Life Satisfaction in Germany after Reunification: Additional Insights on the Pattern of Convergence
Pfeifer, Christian; Petrunyk, Inna - 2015
The authors update previous findings on the total East-West gap in overall life satisfaction and its trend by using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) for the years 1992 to 2013. Additionally, the East-West gap and its trend are separately analyzed for men and women as well as for...
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Life satisfaction in Germany after reunification: Additional insights on the pattern of convergence
Petrunyk, Inna; Pfeifer, Christian - 2015
The authors update previous findings on the total East-West gap in overall life satisfaction and its trend by using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) for the years 1992 to 2013. Additionally, the East-West gap and its trend are separately analyzed for men and women as well as for...
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What can be expected from productive inclusion programs?
Rigolini, Jamele - In: IZA World of Labor (2016)
Productive inclusion programs provide an integrated package of services, such as grants and training, to promote self-employment and wage employment among the poor. They show promising long-term impacts, and are often proposed as a way to graduate the poor out of social assistance. Nevertheless,...
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Does education strengthen the life skills of adolescents?
Schurer, Stefanie - In: IZA World of Labor (2017)
Life skills, sometimes referred to as noncognitive skills or personality traits (e.g. conscientiousness or locus of control—the belief to influence events and their outcomes), affect labor market productivity. Policy makers and academics are thus exploring whether such skills should be taught...
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Determinants of economic sustainability in higher education institutions
Chebeň, Juraj; Lančarič, Drahoslav; Munk, Michal; … - In: Amfiteatru Economic Journal 22 (2020) 54, pp. 462-479
Despite the attention being paid to the environmental and social dimension of sustainability of Higher Education Institution (HEI) in the literature, little empirical research has focused on economic sustainability considering the HEI as an entity depending on financial funds provided by...
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Life satisfaction in Germany after reunification: Additional Insights on the pattern of convergence
Petrunyk, Inna; Pfeifer, Christian - 2015
The authors update previous findings on the total East-West gap in overall life satisfaction and its trend by using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) for the years 1992 to 2013. Additionally, the East-West gap and its trend are separately analyzed for men and women as well as for...
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Methodology for Assessing the Degree of Internationalization of Business Academic Study Programmes
Dabija, Dan-Cristian; Postelnicu, Catalin; Pop, Nicolae Al. - In: Amfiteatru Economic Journal 16 (2014) 37, pp. 726-745
The purpose of this paper is to develop a methodology for assessing the degree of internationalization of undergraduate, Master’s and doctoral business programmes with the aid of complex indicators designed to capture the vast array of characteristics displayed by these programmes and...
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Mozambique's elite: Finding its way in a globalized world and returning to old development models
Hanlon, Joseph; Mosse, Marcelo - 2010
What makes elites developmental instead of predatory? We argue that Mozambique's elite was developmental at independence 35 years ago. With pressure and encouragement from international forces, it became predatory. It has now partly returned to its developmental roots and is trying to use the...
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