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Pension and medicost reform - averting the demoghaphic/fiscal demise
Kotlikoff, Laurence - In: CESifo Forum 6 (2005) 4, pp. 37-41
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004998739
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Thanks but No Thanks: A New Policy to Avoid Land Conflict
Dufwenberg, Martin; Köhlin, Gunnar; Martinsson, Peter; … - 2013
Land conflicts can be detrimental. An important goal of development policy is to help define and instill respect for borders. This is often implemented through mandatory and expensive interventions that rely on the expansion of government land administration institutions. We bring to the table a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010643025
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Is EFA Affordable? Estimating the global minimum cost of 'Education for All'
Delamonica, Enrique; Mehrotra, Santosh; Vandemoortele, Jan - 2001
Progress towards the target of universal access to basic education by the year 2000, set by two global conferences in 1990, has been too slow in many countries. Most of the reasons for this inadequate progress are country-specific. However, in virtually all countries one explanation stands out:...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004967095
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Innovation and Microenterprises Growth in Ethiopia
Gebreeyesus, Mulu - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2009
survey data from Ethiopia that comprise 1000 observations with ten and fewer workers. The analysis shows that firms larger in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008630005
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Assessing organizational capacity in higher education
Van Deuren, Rita van Deuren - Maastricht School of Management (MSM) - 2014
The Ethiopian higher education system has realized enormous growth in the recent years and its future ambitions require additional capacity development in quality and in quantity. In planning and monitoring capacity development, organizational assessment plays a major role. This paper outlines...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010757473
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Innovation and Microenterprises Growth in Ethiopia
Gebreeyesus, Mulu - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2009
survey data from Ethiopia that comprise 1000 observations with ten and fewer workers. The analysis shows that firms larger in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010712032
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Accounting professionalization amidst alternating state ideology in Ethiopia
Mihret, Dessalegn Getie; James, Kieran; Mula, Joseph M. - In: Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 25 (2012) September, pp. 1206-1233
Purpose – This study aims to examine accounting professionalization in Ethiopia focusing on how the state, occupational … – Accounting professionalization in Ethiopia was initiated by the state to strengthen the country's financial system. Owing to a … Accountants (ACCA) in recent decades have influenced Ethiopia's accountancy. Its professional and financial power has enabled ACCA …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010592212
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Resilience capacity of South countries with respect to the global economic crisis: an empirical comparative analysis of Sub-Saharan African and Latin American countries
Lessoua, Albert; Diaw, Diadié; Sokic, Alexandre; … - EcoMod Network - 2013
This paper deals with the problem of vulnerability of developing countries and their resilience capacity with respect to external shocks. The analysis particularly considers the countries of Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa. Although the transmission risks of the 2007 financial crisis were...
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Efficient Development Portfolio Design for Sub-Saharan Africa
Wiebe, Kirsten Svenja; Zon, Adriaan van - EcoMod Network - 2011
The Report by the Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress (Stiglitz et al., 2009) published in September 2009 has brought back to the attention of policy makers and researchers that measuring a country’s development solely on the basis of GDP or GDP per capita...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010902780
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A unified structural equation modeling approach for the decomposition of rank-dependent indicators of socioeconomic inequality of health
Kessels, Roselinde; Erreygers, Guido - EcoMod Network - 2014
results on data from the Ethiopia 2011 Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) involving children under the age of five. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010938577