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Analysis of transportation and logistics processes for soybeans in Brazil
Fliehr, Olivia - Bundesforschungsinstitut für Lädliche Räume, Wald … - 2013
improve the national infrastructure, particularly in the ports in northern Brazil, could lead to large improvements in the … in Brasilien zu ermitteln, wurde eine Markt- und Kostenanalyse für vier Anbaugebiete im Sorriso-Santos-Korridor mit … auf dem Weltmarkt gehört Brasilien zu den Hauptversorgern der weltweiten Sojanachfrage. Der Einfluss von Logistik und …
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Socio-economic implications of primary processing of plantation crops in Malaysia: rubber and palm oil.
Navamukundan, A - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 1989
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In search of a new industry: Giovanni Battista Pirelli and his educational journey through Europe, 1870-1871
Polese, Francesca - In: Business History 48 (2006) 3, pp. 354-375
Knowledge is increasingly considered a crucial resource for economic and business development. However, it is a broad concept that calls for further specifications: different kinds of knowledge call for diverse transfer and learning mechanisms, crucial for their application to economic activity....
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Taxing the Pollution: A Case for Reducing the Environmental Impacts of Rubber Production in Sri Lanka
Edirisinghe, Jagath; Siriwardana, Susantha; … - The South Asian Network for Development and …
Most firms that process rubber in Sri Lanka do not comply with national water pollution control standards. This study seeks to estimate a pollution tax that could motivate firms to meet these standards. The authors use data from 62 rubber producing firms in Sri Lanka over three years to estimate...
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Taxing the Pollution
Edirisinghe, Jagath C. - In: Journal of South Asian Development 9 (2014) 1, pp. 71-90
Most firms that process rubber in Sri Lanka do not comply with national water pollution control standards. The present command and control system fails in the face of a slow enforcement process, and also because of the nature of ‘older’ production units, many of which date back to...
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Produtividade e comércio: a importância do aprendizado no comércio exterior brasileiro
Filho, Hélio de Sousa Ramos; Hidalgo, Álvaro Barrantes - In: Pesquisa e Planejamento Econômico - PPE 43 (2013) 1, pp. 203-222
O objetivo deste artigo é analisar os ganhos de produtividade gerados pelo processo de aprendizado das firmas brasileiras no comércio internacional. Usando o estimador Abadie-Imbens, foram avaliadas as diferenças de produtividade entre firmas exportadoras e não exportadoras, em diferentes...
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Educação, salários e a alocação de trabalhadores entre tarefas: teoria e evidências para o Brasil
Fernandes, Reynaldo; Filho, Naercio Aquino Menezes - In: Pesquisa e Planejamento Econômico - PPE 42 (2012) 3, pp. 311-328
. <P> Supply and Demand for Skill, Relative Wages and the Allocation of Workers to Tasks: Theory and Evidence from Brazil … education levels to the demand and supply of skills, providing empirical evidence for the case of Brazil. The model assumes that … workers would have fallen instead of rising in Brazil over the last 30 years. …
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A long way from tax justice : the Brazilian case
Lavinas, Lena; Ferro, Moellmann; Andrade, Thiago - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 2014
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Metodología para estimar el costo laboral por sexo
Abramo, Laís; Berger, Silvia; Szretter, Héctor; … - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 2005
Basado en una investigación realizada entre 2000 y 2001 en varios países latinoamericanos, describe la metodología utilizada para analizar los costos laborales asociados a la contratación, y en especial los referidos a la protección de la maternidad y el cuidado infantil.
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The health of workers in selected sectors of the urban economy : challenges and perspectives
Comaru, Francisco; Werna, Edmundo - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 2013
Aims at analysing and systematizing the health challenges faced by the poorest strata of urban workers and to discuss solutions. Uses interviews carried out with ILO and WHO staff members from different departments and programmes, completed with interviews with professionals from other...
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