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Stabilisation Targets and Instruments in Developing Countries
Clunies Ross, Anthony - In: Journal of Economic Studies 15 (1988) 2, pp. 4-74
The assignment of targets to instruments in developing countries cannot satisfactorily follow any simple universal rule. Which approach is appropriate is influenced by whether the economy is dominated by primary exports, by the importance of the domestic bond market and bank credit, by the...
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Romania's economic policy: rulers' wisdom will lead us
Burnete, Sorin - In: Journal of Organizational Change Management 19 (2006) 6, pp. 753-759
such as Bhagwati's generalized theory of distortions and welfare and Mundell's approach of macroeconomic policies under …
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Higher Education Analytics: A Study of the Flow of College Applicants between US States
Joseph, Adrian; Rutz, Patrick; Stachowiak, Sean; Jaume, … - In: International Journal of Information Systems and Social … 8 (2017) 1, pp. 58-70
The dispersion of talent within the United States is not uniform. There is sufficient statistical evidence to suggest that there is an interstate brain drain phenomenon occurring within the country. The authors set out to examine this by first determining whether states could be classified into...
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Education expenditures and income distribution: an empirical analysis on European countries
Celikay, Ferdi; Sengur, Mehmet - In: Humanomics 32 (2016) 3, pp. 248-257
Purpose This study aims to examine the relationship between public sector education expenditure and the GINI coefficient as a measure of injustice in income distribution. Design/methodology/approach Data from 31 European countries gathered from 2004 to 2011 were analyzed using panel error...
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School performance in three South East Asian countries: lessons in leadership, decision-making and training
Gill, CM Hugues D.; Berezina, Elizaveta - In: European Journal of Training and Development 45 (2020) 2/3, pp. 136-148
Purpose The three neighbouring nations of Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore participated in the 2009, 2012 and 2015 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) cycles. Despite many similarities between the three nations, Singapore has consistently been a top PISA performer, with...
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Education in pre‐ and post‐conflict contexts: relating capability and life‐skills approaches
Dubois, Jean‐Luc; Trabelsi, Milène - In: International Journal of Social Economics 34 (2007) 1/2, pp. 53-65
Purpose – Conflicts, especially when they turn into civil war or genocide, have irreversible consequences for people. The impact is not only economic as shown by several quantitative studies, but also social and ethical since it deeply affects the mind and behaviour of both current and future...
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Explorations in Biofuels Economics, Policy, and History: Introduction to the Special Issue
Gardner, Bruce; Tyner, Wallace - In: Journal of Agricultural & Food Industrial Organization 5 (2007) 2
Biofuels are prominent in current discussion both as a solution to problems and as a creator of problems. They have promise as a substitute for fossil fuels, particularly for petroleum as the raw material for transportation fuel. But biofuels also have pitfalls, especially when produced at a...
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A driver in every car: when the auto industry says jump, do governments say “how high?”
Buigues, Pierre André - In: Journal of Business Strategy 38 (2017) 4, pp. 3-10
financial crisis, etc.). Whatever the theory, in practice, public interventions have a strong impact on the industry and its …
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Optimal delivery time and subsidy for IT-enabled food delivery platforms considering negative externality and social welfare
Zhao, Bin; Tan, Haoquan; Zhou, Chi; Feng, Haiyang - In: Industrial Management & Data Systems 123 (2023) 5, pp. 1336-1358
externality. This study aims to provide managerial implications on the decisions of delivery time and subsidy for food delivery … subsidy provided to delivery drivers to maximize the gig platform's profit and compare the results with those of a socially … subsidy when the food price becomes higher; nevertheless, the platform should shorten the delivery time and lower the subsidy …
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Public no more universities: subsidy to self‐reliance
Fethke, Gary C.; Policano, Andrew J. - In: Journal of Management Development 32 (2013) 5, pp. 525-536
traditional low tuition‐high subsidy model of public higher education becomes increasingly unsustainable. The shift toward … practices can provide a meaningful path for public universities to sustain excellence in a period of declining subsidy. Social …
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