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A National Program for Large Scale Rainwater Harvesting: An Individual or Public Responsibility?
Gomes, Uende; Heller, Léo; Pena, João - In: Water Resources Management 26 (2012) 9, pp. 2703-2714
Rooftop rainwater harvesting systems for human consumption represent an alternative among individual technologies of water supply. However, this solution should not be treated exclusively as an emergency and pro-poor alternative when it is applied in the form of public policy intended for...
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Fair optimal tax with endogenous productivities
Fleurbaey M.; Valletta G. - Graduate School of Business and Economics (GSBE), … - 2013
What is a good incentive-compatible policy when one wants to respect individual choices of labor and human capital but eliminate inequalities due to unequal access to human capital and different returns to human capital, and when earnings and human capital expenditures are the only verifiable...
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Single-basined choice
Bossert W.; Peters H.J.M. - Graduate School of Business and Economics (GSBE), … - 2013
Single-basined preferences generalize single-dipped preferences by allowing for multiple worst elements. These preferences have played an important role in areas such as voting, strategy-proofness and matching problems. We examine the notion of single-basinedness in a choice-theoretic setting....
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La gestion intégrée des déchets solides en Algérie: Contraintes et limites de sa mise en oeuvre
DJEMACI, Brahim; CHERTOUK, Malika AHMED ZAÏD - - Centre International de Recherches et d'Information sur … - 2011
Avec l’apparition de nouvelles habitudes de consommation des populations, l’ensemble des villes algériennes doit faire face au phénomène d’une brusque augmentation des quantités de déchets produites. Une dégradation de l’environnement et un risque sur la santé publique en ont...
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Non-governmental Organizations in Rural Areas - A Case Study of WIR Association
Hernik, Joanna - In: Acta Oeconomica et Informatica 15 (2012) 2
Non-governmental organizations usually operate in cities. This tendency results from the fact that the larger the population, the easier it is for organizations to find members. It is also influenced by accumulation of social problems in urban areas, which those organizations may attempt to...
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Brand "Moscow" in a global perspective
Ochkovskaya, Marina; Gerasimenko, Valentina; Rybalko, Maria - In: Transnational Marketing Journal 2 (2014) 2, pp. 99-111
The study investigates the peculiarities of place branding for Moscow. Recently the numbers of foreign tourists visiting Moscow have increased but the majority of them are over 40 years old. Since the population of most Western countries is ageing, this seems to be a conducive trend for Russian...
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Choosing k from m: feasible elimination procedures reconsidered
Peleg B.; Peters H.J.M. - Graduate School of Business and Economics (GSBE), … - 2014
We show that feasible elimination procedures Peleg, 1978 can be used to select k from m alternatives. An important advantage of this method is the core property no coalition can guarantee an outcome that is preferred by all its members. We also provide an axiomatic characterization for the case...
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Moral sentiments, institutions, and civil society: Exploiting family resemblances between Smith and Hegel to resolve some conceptual issues in Sen's recent contributions to the the...
Boldyrev, Ivan A.; Herrmann-Pillath, Carsten - Frankfurt School of Finance and Management - 2012
institutionalism by Sen), his analysis of the civil society in the Philosophy of Right, especially his focus on associations and …
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Connaissance des associations
Archambault, Edith; Accardo, Jérôme; Laouisset, Brahim - HAL - 2010
des associations", a été constitué, pour faire le point sur l'état actuel du dispositif de suivi statistique du secteur … en place une enquête nationale périodique sur les associations. - Poursuivre et compléter l'élaboration du Répertoire … National des Associations (RNA) et améliorer la qualité du Répertoire Sirène dans le champ des associations, en l …
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INSTITUCIYNI PRINCIPLES OF CONSTRUCTION SYSTEM THE CORPORATE RELATIONS IN UKRAINE AND DIRECTIONS OF ITS PERFECTION
ZAYCEVA I.Y. - In: ВІСНИК ЕКОНОМІКИ ТРАНСПОРТУ І … (2010) 3, pp. 331-337
In the article the issues of the day are considered legal providing of corporate relations in Ukraine, a legislative base is analysed in relation to functioning of joint-stock companies and basic directions of its adjusting are offered.
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