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Which Institutions Encourage Entrepreneurial Growth Aspirations?
Estrin, Saul; Korosteleva, Julia; Mickiewics, Tomasz - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010191026
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Law, politics and the quality of government in Africa
Asongu, Simplice A.; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C. - 2016
This paper examines interconnections between law, politics and the quality of government in Africa. We investigate …-control, government-effectiveness, voice and accountability, political-stability, regulation quality and the rule of law. Findings show … whether African democracies enjoy relatively better government quality compared to their counterparts with more autocratic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011496387
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Law, democracy and the quality of government in Africa
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2011
components in the development of the continent: law, democracy and quality of government. Political regimes of democracy, polity … account for government quality dynamics of corruption-control, government-effectiveness, voice and accountability, political …-stability, regulation quality and rule of law. Findings indicate democracy has an edge over autocracy while the later and polity overlap. A …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011410343
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New roles of government in the governance of business conduct : implications for management and organizational research
Kourula, Arno; Moon, Jeremy; Salles-Djelic, Marie-Laure; … - In: Organization studies : an international … 40 (2019) 8, pp. 1101-1123
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012061598
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Decentralization and natural disasters
Goodspeed, Timothy J. - 2013
level of government. The next section discusses the empirical results that have been found in the literature. A third …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009724002
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What Drives Microfinance Institution's Financial Sustainability
Ayayi, Ayi Gavriel - 2011
Microfinance promises to trim down poverty. To achieve this noble objective microfinance institutions (MFIs) have to become steady profitable because donor constancy is not a given. Thus important question is: what factors drive the financial sustainability of MFIs? Using data on 217 MFIs in 101...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118859
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Decentralization and Natural Disasters
Goodspeed, Timothy - 2013
level of government. The next section discusses the empirical results that have been found in the literature. A third …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013083868
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Connotation of Minor Millet Biodiversity and Indirect Payments in Tribal Homesteads in the Backdrop of Climate Change
Aravindakshan, Sreejith - 2014
Unscathed agrobiodiversity remaining in-situ today is found on the small-scale farms and homestead gardens of poorer and developing countries (Brookfield, 2001). The indigenous traditional farming of Muthuvan tribe as the case of Finger millet or Ragi (Eleusine coracana), a minor millet...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013068820
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A Brief Understanding of Hunger and its Resolution
Giovannucci, Daniele - 2014
Food is one of the most primal ways to transmit culture and traditions and thus has vital and even cross-generational importance for us. Nevertheless, many of us have gone beyond relating to food as a primal need. So, in this age of abundance, food is either under-appreciated as epitomized by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013070309
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Human Capital Investment After the Storm
Billings, Stephen B. - 2020
We provide a novel test for the impact of wealth-destroying natural disasters on college decisions using Hurricane Harvey (Aug-Sep 2017). First, we compare enrollment and graduation outcomes at Texas public universities and colleges according to their student share from disaster-affected...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012835070