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Needs Assessment of an Ethnic Chinese Community in Japan
Chen, Li-Mei - In: Social Sciences 3 (2014) 4, pp. 628-644
This study is a needs assessment of ethnic Chinese older adults in Japan. The Delphi method was applied to identify the …, Welfare, and Long-term Care Insurance Program Plan seeking to identify differences between ethnic Chinese and Japanese … financial and cultural needs that were unique to the ethnic Chinese group. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010930303
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The Chinese Aid System
Lancaster, Carol - eSocialSciences - 2009
Questions about Chinese aid—how large it is and how fast it is growing; how decisions are made on how much aid is … provided each year; which countries receive it and how much they get; how the aid is managed within the Chinese government and … how it is evaluated are explored. The Chinese are clearly set to play a major role in aid-giving worldwide, and the aid …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008543133
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Traditional Chinese Medicine Could Make “Health for One†True
Jia, Qian - eSocialSciences - 2007
The present paper analyzes the possibilities of Traditional Chinese Medicine to become a perfect medicine. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005487678
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Reprisals Remembered: German-Greek Conflict and Car Sales during the Euro Crisis
Fouka, Vasiliki; Voth, Hans-Joachim - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2013
During the Greek debt crisis after 2010, the German government insisted on harsh austerity measures. This led to a rapid cooling of relations between the Greek and German governments. We compile a new index of public acrimony between Germany and Greece based on newspaper reports and internet...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010851349
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Boycott or Buycott?: Internal Politics and Consumer Choices
Cuadras-Morató, Xavier; Raya, Josep Maria - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2014
Do political tensions affect economic relations? In particular, does politics significantly affect consumer choices? Firms are often threatened by consumer boycotts that pretend to modify their business strategies and behavior. Sometimes these are caused by general political conflicts. The main...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010851366
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Reprisals remembered: German-Greek conflict and car sales during the Euro crisis
Fouka, Vasiliki; Voth, Joachim - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2012
During the Greek debt crisis after 2010, the German government insisted on harsh austerity measures. This led to a rapid cooling of relations between the Greek and German governments. We compile a new index of public acrimony between Germany and Greece based on newspaper reports and internet...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010933540
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Boycotting a dictatorship: who does it really hurt?
Delacote, Philippe - Département Sciences Sociales, Agriculture et … - 2009
Consumer boycotts and international economic sanctions represent a frequent tool to protest against countries for their violation of human rights. This paper questions if such a kind of action hurts more the populations it is supposed to defend than governing classes it is targeting. Overall,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010780295
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Consumer boycotts of foreign products: a metric model
Altintas, Murat Hakan; Kurtulmusoglu, Bahar F.; … - In: The AMFITEATRU ECONOMIC journal 15 (2013) 34, pp. 485-504
Even if reactions to foreign goods are measured by means of various conceptual structures, few studies approach the question from the point of view of boycotts. Responding to this scarcity and with the aid of netnography, this study examines antecedents of consumer boycotts of foreign goods. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010819120
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Consumers' Activism: the Facebook boycott of Cottage Cheese
Hendel, Igal E; Lach, Saul; Spiegel, Yossi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
We study a consumer boycott on cottage cheese that was organized in Israel on Facebook in the summer of 2011 following a steep increase in prices after price controls were lifted in 2006. The boycott led to an immediate decline in prices which stayed low more than three years after the boycott....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011186620
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Boycotting a dictatorship: who does it really hurt?
Delacote, Philippe - In: Economics Bulletin 29 (2009) 3, pp. 1856-1862
Consumer boycotts and international economic sanctions represent a frequent tool to protest against countries for their violation of human rights. This paper questions if such a kind of action hurts more the populations it is supposed to defend than governing classes it is targeting. Overall,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008563002