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Introducing and Measuring Sustainable Development Initiatives by Local Authorities in Canada and Flanders (Belgium) A Comparative Study
Devuyst, Dimitri; Hens, Luc - In: Environment, Development and Sustainability 2 (2000) 2, pp. 81-105
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010847188
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Rural crisis and rural exodus? Local migration dynamics during the crisis of the 1840s in Flanders (Belgium)
Deschacht, Nick; Winter, Anne - In: Explorations in Economic History 56 (2015) C, pp. 32-52
This article analyses the migration dynamics in the wake of the 1845–1847 subsistence crisis in Flanders by means of a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011263550
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Unmarried adolescents and filial assistance in eighteenth-century Flanders
Lambrecht, Thijs A. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
household in Flanders. I argue that both patterns of land ownership and the restricted access to welfare ressources explain why …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009644933
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Families of children with special needs in Flanders: their vulnerability within the citizenship paradigm
Sebrechts, Leen; Breda, Jef - Centrum voor Sociaal Beleid - Herman Deleeck, … - 2012
Although societies, as a reaction to the social model of disability, try to integrate and empower people with impairments and disadvantaged families through inclusive policies, these population groups continue to experience integration difficulties. Besides negative changes in health, a weak...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010556656
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(Un)desirable Effects of Output Funding for Flemish Universities
Cantillon, Bea; De Ridder, Annemieke; Vanhaecht, Eva; … - Centrum voor Sociaal Beleid - Herman Deleeck, … - 2010
Governments introducing output parameters in the funding rule of universities believe that it will induce universities to raise their teaching efforts while educational standards will remain unaffected. We show that this presupposes positive interaction effects between students’ abilities,...
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The Regional Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare for Flanders, Belgium
Bleys, Brent - In: Sustainability 5 (2013) 2, pp. 496-523
In this paper, the regional Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare (ISEW) is compiled for Flanders for the period 1990 …-GDP). The ISEW for Flanders shows that the per capita level of sustainable economic welfare in the region decreased between 1990 … inequalities in Flanders. To a lesser extent, the increase of the environmental costs (climate change and the use of non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010610317
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Silicon Valley in the Polder? Entrepreneurial Dynamics, Virtuous Clusters and Vicious Firms in the Netherlands and Flanders
Hulsink, Hulsink, W.; Bouwman, Bouwman, H.; Elfring, … - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2007
be applied to make a critical analysis of five ICT-clusters in the Netherlands and Flanders (Northern part of Belgium …): the Louvain Technology Corridor, Flanders Language Valley, Amsterdam Alley, Dommel Valley, and Twente. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010731487
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Towards Measurable and Auditable Efficiency Gains in the Flemish Public Sector
Stroobants, Jesse; Bouckaert, Geert - In: Public Organization Review 13 (2013) 3, pp. 245-260
This article supports the Flemish Government’s efforts to improve the efficiency in the public sector, but points out that efficiency has to be considered in the broader context of a well-performing and well-functioning public sector. After describing the main motives for efficiency...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010863407
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Silicon Valley in the Polder? Entrepreneurial Dynamics, Virtuous Clusters and Vicious Firms in the Netherlands and Flanders
Hulsink, W.; Bouwman, H.; Elfring, T. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), ERIM … - 2007
be applied to make a critical analysis of five ICT-clusters in the Netherlands and Flanders (Northern part of Belgium …): the Louvain Technology Corridor, Flanders Language Valley, Amsterdam Alley, Dommel Valley, and Twente. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005288335
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Industrial Energy from Water-Mills in the European Economy, Fifth to Eighteenth Centuries: the Limitations of Power
Munro, John - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2001
The water-mill, though known in the Roman Empire from the second century BCE, did not come to enjoy any widespread use until the 4 th or 5 th centuries CE, and then chiefly in the West, which was then experiencing not only a rapid decline in the supply of slaves, but also widespread...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005704737