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Issues Affecting Faculty Development in African Management Institutions
Fadahunsi, Olu - In: International Journal of Public Sector Management 1 (1988) 2, pp. 31-39
Management institutions in Africa experience socio‐economic problems far worse than any which exist in the Western …
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Evaluating the effectiveness of export support services in developing countries
Tesfom, Goitom; Lutz, Clemens - In: International Journal of Emerging Markets 3 (2008) 4, pp. 364-377
Purpose – The lack of detailed statistics in many developing countries makes it very difficult to assess the effect of export support services on the firm's export performance. Moreover, a fundamental factor that creates confusion is the lack of a straightforward causal relationship between a...
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Effectiveness of economic cooperation between the EU and the ACP countries
Evrensel, Ayse - In: Journal of International Trade Law and Policy 8 (2009) 2, pp. 181-196
performance, diversification indices, and regression analysis, the effectiveness of trade preferences and financial assistance in … and the ACP countries had neither substantially increased the ACP countries' exports to the EU nor diversified these …
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Strategic choices, export orientation and export performance of SMEs in Nigeria
Okpara, John O. - In: Management Decision 47 (2009) 8, pp. 1281-1299
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of entrepreneurial export orientation on the performance of SMEs in Nigeria. Design/methodology/approach – The study follows a quantitative research design using survey methods with statistical treatment. Several t ‐tests and...
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Stakeholders Approach for Relief Provision to Distressed Farmers
Baporikar, Neeta; Deshpande, MV - In: International Journal of Civic Engagement and Social … 5 (2018) 3, pp. 16-31
suicides. There are no signs of relief for farmers. This is despite the government granting a decade of financial aid packages …
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Palestinian Health Institutions: Finding a Way Forward after the Second Intifada
Hilsenrath, Peter E; Singh, Karan P - In: Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy 13 (2007) 1, pp. 65-77
. This paper reviews bilateral and multilateral aid to Palestinians following the second intifada and argues that not enough …
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Measuring relationships between workers in poverty‐focused organisations
McWha, Ishbel; MacLachlan, Malcolm - In: Journal of Managerial Psychology 26 (2011) 6, pp. 485-499
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop and test a measure of relationships and learning within the aid … context. Design/methodology/approach – The Aid Relationships Quality Scale (ARQS) was administered to 1,290 local and … expatriate workers across six countries in three regions (Africa: Malawi, Uganda; Asia: India, China; Oceania: PNG, Solomon …
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Nephron Algorithm Optimization: Inspired of the Biologic Nephron Performance
Behmanesh, Reza - In: International Journal of Applied Metaheuristic … 7 (2016) 1, pp. 38-64
diversification strategies intrinsically, to make efficient optimization technique. For testing Nephron algorithm optimization (NAO …
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Averaging Across Asset Allocation Models
Schanbacher, Peter - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 235 (2015) 1, pp. 61-81
Summary Combination of asset allocation models is rewarding if (i) the applied risk function is concave and (ii) there is no dominating model. We show that most common risk functions are either concave or at least concave in common applications. In a comprehensive empirical study using standard...
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Generating Jobs For Youth GCC Nationals? – Tourism Development, Demographic Change, and Labour Market Situation in GCC Countries
Scharfenort, Nadine - In: Zeitschrift für Tourismuswissenschaft 12 (2020) 2, pp. 274-298
Abstract The GCC states have built their economies on the hydrocarbon industry that allowed rapid economic and urban development and financed large, inefficient public sectors. The over-dependence of nationals on public sector employment now exerts massive pressure on the governments: All GCC...
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