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Finding Balance 2014: Benchmarking the Performance of State-Owned Enterprises in Island Countries
Asian Development Bank; Asian Development Bank (ADB) - 2014
SOEs’ impact on island countries outside the Pacific. It evaluates SOEs in Cabo Verde, Fiji, Jamaica, the Marshall Islands …, Mauritius, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, and Tonga—identifying key performance drivers and reform strategies to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011165198
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Adding injury to insult : a first estimate of financial losses of Indian migrant workers fleeing the Gulf crisis, 1990
Saith, Saith, A. - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 1991
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010730618
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Adding injury to insult : a first estimate of financial losses of Indian migrant workers fleeing the Gulf crisis, 1990
SAITH, A. - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 1991
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005589907
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Adding injury to insult : a first estimate of financial losses of Indian migrant workers fleeing the Gulf crisis, 1990
Saith, A. - International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus … - 1991
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008683835
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Do Stronger Collective Property Rights Improve Household Welfare? Evidence from a Field Study in Fiji
Lawson-Remer, Terra - In: World Development 43 (2013) C, pp. 207-225
food consumption in Fiji. Strengthening collective ownership rights improves household welfare as indicated by food …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010636445
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Integrating Economic and Social Policy: Good practices from high achieving countries
Mehrotra, Santosh - 2000
This paper examines the successes of ten 'high-achievers' - countries with social indicators far higher than might be expected given their national wealth. Their progress in such fields as education and health offers lessons for social policy elsewhere in the developing world. Based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005430344
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Die pazifischen AKP-Staaten : Paradiese mit harten Wirklichkeiten
Gälli, Anton; Krebs, Thomas; Wüllner, Claudia; … - In: Ifo Schnelldienst 49 (1996) 1-2, pp. 28-43
Die Länderanalyse untersucht die pazifischen AKP-Staaten (Fidschi, Kiribati, Papua-Neuguinea, Salomonen, Samoa, Tonga …, Tuvalu, Vanuatu). Zunächst wird die politische Entwicklung der Region beleuchtet. Im Anschluß wird die wirtschaftliche … geringe Entwicklung des Bruttoinlandsprodukts in den vergangenen 15 Jahren. Bei der sinnvollen Nutzung der Ressourcen von Land …
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Beyond Small Change: Making Migrant Remittances Count Title: Remesas de inmigrantes: Moneda de cambio económico y social
Lianos, Theodore P.; Bump, Micah N.; Iglesias, Enrique V.; … - Inter-American Development Bank
Beyond Small Change examines the phenomenon of migrant remittances in hopes of contributing to international understanding of remittances, promoting better policies and practices in this area, and turning migrant workers' hard-won resources into a source of development for their homelands. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010943431
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Migration in a model of occupational choice
Chowdhury, Sahana Roy - In: Indian Growth and Development Review 1 (2008) 1, pp. 84-94
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a theoretical explanation for the empirical observation that the relative migration of unskilled (skilled) labor tends to occur from developing economies that are relatively unequal (equal). Design/methodology/approach – Wealth inequality is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005081141
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Beyond Small Change: Making Migrant Remittances Count Title: Remesas de inmigrantes: Moneda de cambio económico y social
Lianos, Theodore P.; Bump, Micah N.; Iglesias, Enrique V.; … - Inter-American Development Bank
Beyond Small Change examines the phenomenon of migrant remittances in hopes of contributing to international understanding of remittances, promoting better policies and practices in this area, and turning migrant workers' hard-won resources into a source of development for their homelands. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010772377