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The Economic, Social and Administrative Pharmacy (ESAP) Discipline in US schools and colleges of pharmacy

Alkhateeb, Fadi M.; Latif, David A.; Adkins, Rachel - In: International journal of management, economics and … 2 (2013) 3, pp. 187-204

Schools and colleges of pharmacy in the United States have struggled over the past several decades with identifying a consistent title for the broad body of knowledge related to the social, economic, behavioral, and administrative aspects of pharmacy. This paper examines the educational...

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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

Undoubtedly, poverty reduction has become a front-burner issue in development and business agenda. Since its announcement and defense by its advocates as a potent weapon against poverty, the Bottom of the Pyramid (BoP) concept has been bedeviled by controversies. A major controversy is whether...

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Financial literacy of youth : a sensitivity analysis of the determinants

Samy, Martin; Tawfik, H.; Huang, R.; Nagar, A. K. - In: International journal of economic sciences and applied … 1 (2008) 1, pp. 55-70

This paper reports on the potential use of Neural Network as a sensitivity modeling tool for the determinants of financial literacy. The financial literacy modeling in this research has been attempted to measure the literacy of youth in the Australian society with respect to their financial...

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Economic returns and risks to investment in education : an application of the multifactor CAPM

Athanassiadis, Antonios - In: International journal of economic sciences and applied … 4 (2011) 1, pp. 95-120

Considering the investment in education as uncertain financial decision making we modify the short-cut method of calculating rates of return to education by incorporating the risk premium. Recognizing that market risk isn't the only factor affecting returns, we estimate the returns to education...

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Educación y escuela en el año del bicentenario de Argentina historia reciente : Tucumán 1990/2010

Macián de Barbieri, Liliana - In: Atlantic review of economics 1 (2011), pp. 1-25

The paper provides a review of laws and other actions that have been undertaken in recent years in Argentina to improve education. Review is focused on the Province of Tucumán, where he studied education policy and some of their results. It analyzes the contents of the Federal Education Law No....

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Managing operating efficiencies of publicly owned universities : American university stochastic frontier estimates using panel data

Sav, G. Thomas - In: Advances in management & applied economics 2 (2012) 1, pp. 1-23

education. The analysis employs panel data on American research and doctoral granting universities spanning four academic years … universities. Moreover environmental factors affect university operating efficiencies. University operating inefficiencies are … performance indicate fairly wide inefficiency variability and some flagship universities residing among the more inefficient …

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Review of current trends in shaping financial knowledge

Gemzik-Salwach, Agata - In: E-Finanse : finansowy kwartalnik internetowy 8 (2012) 1, pp. 102-107

The activity of local government units requires them to constantly deepen the financial knowledge and competence of their employees. This article presents review of current trends in shaping financial knowledge of local government units in Poland. The first part of this paper shows trends...

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Economic conditions of government expenditure on education in higher education system

Rozmus, Andrzej; Cyran, Karolina - In: E-Finanse : finansowy kwartalnik internetowy 8 (2012) 1, pp. 72-84

didactics. The prevailing mechanism of financing didactics in public universities in Polish reality does not ensure the … universities and enhancing the quality of didactics and science. -- higher education ; financing higher education …

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Research into the financial knowledge of employees of local government units at commune level in Podkarpacie

Dzyuma, Ulyana; Rodzinka, Jacek - In: E-Finanse : finansowy kwartalnik internetowy 8 (2012) 2, pp. 76-94

The aim of this article is to present the results of a study on the level of financial knowledge among staff at local public administration offices. The study was conducted using the technique of Computer Assisted Telephone Interviews (CATI) on a representative sample of commune level offices in...

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Productivity, efficiency, and managerial performance regress and gains in United States universities : a data envelopment analysis

Sav, G. Thomas - In: Advances in management & applied economics 2 (2012) 3, pp. 13-32

This paper uses data envelopment analys is to investigate the extent to which universities in the United States have … panel data for 133 research a nd doctoral universities, the focus is on the primary drivers of U.S. publicly cont rolled … ; manage ; universities …

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