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Zusammenfassung Der Artikel setzt sich mit der medieninduzierten Tourismusentwicklung des andalusischen Dorfes Júzcar auseinander. Júzcar gilt seit 2011 als das erste Schlumpfdorf der Welt: Aus Anlass der Premiere des Kinofilms „Die Schlümpfe“ waren alle Hausfassaden blau gefärbt worden,...
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The empirical analysis of precautionary savings based on household level has long suffered from the assumption of no risk-sharing behavior and measurement errors. Using a unique dataset from China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), we provide an explicit estimate of the relative prudence...
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Purpose – This paper aims to explain why the quality of infrastructure projects in rural China differs from village to … village and how project quality is correlated with project design attributes and governance factors. Design … measures of project quality for each village. They then used both descriptive and multivariate approaches to examine how …
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examine the migrant houses in the village of emigration (Zavoj in Macedonia), migrant houses built by returning emigrants. A …
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In their article: Participatory Development Revisited, Ghazala Mansuri and Vijayendra Rao outline the high hopes for participation over the last two decades, yet conclude that participatory development has become a “tarnished silver bullet”—perhaps another in a long series of development...
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programs and the allocation of within-village public goods. Our data on village councils in South India show that, relative to … councillor's village also obtains more public goods, relative to other villages. These findings can be interpreted using a simple …
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In response to the problems of high coordination costs among the poor, efforts are underway in many countries to organize the poor through “self-help groups” (SHGs)–membership-based organizations that aim to promote social cohesion through a mixture of education, access to finance, and...
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Purpose This study aims to investigate how the village government implements internal control, accountability …/methodology/approach This study is qualitative research by conducting a semi-structured interview with village staff, village consultative …, audit standards and internal control regulations for the village to create good governance for eradicating corruption …
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The article describes the experiment that attempted to find out the extent to which English language influences the terminology of Slovenian library and information science. The results of a stemming procedure of Slovenian texts from this area, published in 1998 and 1999, were inspected. Three...
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materials. Evaluation of formal education and of professional development programmes in the UK and in Slovenia, to assess how … aspects of the digital library environment, both in the UK and in Slovenia. This is happening as part of the normal process of …/implications – Based on comparison of education and training programmes in two countries, the UK and Slovenia. Practical implications …
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