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Information and Communication Technologies for Health Systems Strengthening
Otto, Kate; Shekar, Meera; Herbst, Christopher H.; … - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2015
Information and communication technologies (ICT) for health or eHealth solutions hold great potential for generating systemic efficiencies by strengthening five critical pillars of a health system: human resources for health, supply chain management, health care financing, governance and service...
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Guest Workers' Remittances and Output Fluctuations in Host and Home Countries : The Case of Remittances from Turkish Workers in Germany
SAYAN, SERDAR - In: Emerging Markets Finance and Trade 40 (2004) 6, pp. 68-81
number of Turkish workers living and working in Germany, and up- and downswings that Turkish and German economies experience …Over the past decades, different Mediterranean countries have sent considerable numbers of workers to the EU area …, generating sizable amounts of foreign exchange receipts through the remittances these guest workers have transferred back home …
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Tarifabschluss im öffentlichen Dienst - die große Tarifrechtsreform?
Böhle, Thomas; Stegner, Ralf; Oechsler, Walter A.; … - In: Ifo Schnelldienst 58 (2005) 07, pp. 03-15
Stellt der Tarifabschluss für Arbeiter und Angestellte von Bund und Kommunen einen Beitrag zum Einstieg in eine …
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Industriepläne : leicht beschleunigtes Umsatzwachstum bereits 1994, deutlicher Anstieg der Investitionen im kommenden Jahr ; Ergebnisse der 47. "Prognose 100"-Umfrage aus den alten...
Jäckel, Peter; Dunkel, Bruno; Schweiger, Joachim - In: Ifo Schnelldienst 47 (1994) 14, pp. 03-06
Im ersten Quartal 1994 wurde die "Prognose 100"-Erhebung mit Unternehmen der alten Bundesländer durchgeführt. Befragt wurden die geplanten Personal-, Umsatz- und Investitionsentwicklungen in diesem und im kommenden Jahr. Die Planangaben der Unternehmen zum Inlands- und Auslandsumsatz zeigen,...
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DV-Dienstleister bleiben im Aufwind
Gürtler, Joachim - In: Ifo Schnelldienst 50 (1997) 20, pp. 11-15
Die Geschäftsentwicklung der DV-Dienstleister hat sich im zweiten Quartal 1997 weiter verbessert und erreichte den günstigsten Wert seit Einführung der vierteljährlichen Umfrage im Frühjahr 1995. Sehr positiv wurden auch die mittelfristigen Wachstumsperspektiven beurteilt: fast 90% planen...
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Why do successful companies fail? A case study of the decline of Dunlop
McGovern, Tom - In: Business History 49 (2007) 6, pp. 886-907
This article examines the internal and external factors that contributed to the decline of Dunlop. For much of its history Dunlop operated in a protected home market or instigated strategies to restrict competition. This enabled Dunlop to dominate the British tyre industry. The complacency and...
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The decline of the British tyre industry: An evaluation of the policies of the Tyre Industry Sector Working Party
McGovern, Tom - In: Business History 53 (2011) 4, pp. 600-616
The Labour Government of 1974-79 formulated the Industrial Strategy to transform Britain's industrial performance. Sector working parties were established to assist companies to become more efficient. The paper examines the policy response of the Tyre Industry Sector Working Party (SWP) to...
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Critical Issues Facing China’s Rubber Industry in the Era of Market Integration: An Analysis in Retrospect and Prospect
K, Viswanathan P - eSocialSciences - 2008
This paper discusses the emerging contradictions that may have serious implications for the sustainable growth and performance of China’s rubber industry in the era of internal restructuring and global market integration. The contradictions arise from the growing mismatch between shortage...
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The university workers’ willingness to pay for commuting
Russo, Giovanni; Ommeren, Jos; Rietveld, Piet - In: Transportation 39 (2012) 6, pp. 1121-1132
Using a dynamic approach, employing data on job mobility, we demonstrate that university workers’ marginal willingness … substantially higher than for males. It is also substantially higher for workers that work few hours per day, as predicted by theory …
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Being Under Time Pressure: The Case of Workers with Disabilities
Pagán-Rodríguez, Ricardo - In: Social Indicators Research 114 (2013) 3, pp. 831-840
engage in more household labour as compared to the non-disabled. The estimation results show that disabled workers … so among disabled workers. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013 …
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