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Modernization and the fertility transition, Egypt, 1975
Issa, Mahmoud S. Abdou - 1980
This study investigates regional marital fertility differentials in Egypt and their relationship to the level of modernization of the region: defined as economic development and social and cultural change. The intermediate variables (Davis and Blake, 1965) underlying these regional levels and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009439057
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Impact of Corporate Orientation on Information Technology Adoption in the United States Forest Products Industry
Poku, Kofi - 2003
This study aims to contribute to addressing the gap that exists in determining the role an organizations internal operations play in information technology (IT) adoption in organizations. In particular, this research stems from investigating the relationship between company success at adopting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009439350
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Impacts of Population and Income Growth Rates on Threatened Mammals and Birds
Pandit, Ram; Laband, David - 2011
Per capita income and human population levels in a country have direct influences on itsenvironmental outcomes. Countries with same level of income may have different rate ofincome growth and vice versa, suggesting that the influence of the rate of income growth onenvironmental outcomes could be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009443801
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Spatially explicit farming system modelling for an efficient agri-environmental policy design
Havlik, Petr; Bamiere, Laure; Jacquet, Florence; Millet, Guy - 2008
A mathematical programming model is developed and associated to a spatial pattern index (Ripley L function) to analyse the optimal reserve design and implementation for the Little Bustard conservation in Plaine de Niort. The model structure corresponds to three spatial levels, fields, farm and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009445725
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Privatization and performance: Evidence from telecommunications sector
Ariff, Mohamed; Cabanda, E; Sathye, M - 2008
There is a continuing debate on whether or not ownership changes accompanying privatization of state-owned enterprises … of telecommunication firms around the world, 4 years before and 4 years after privatization, using two parallel measures … could corroborate stronger evidence for or against maintained hypothesis of performance improvements after privatization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009441699
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On productivity performance gains of Indonesian firms
Viverita,; Ariff, Mohamed - 2008
and revisits policy implications. Practical implications – No one policy fits all in Indonesia for privatization programme …
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Fiscal Impact of Privatization in Developing Countries
Sunderland, Alexander H - 2011
This paper examines the fiscal impact of privatization revenues in 47 developing countries. There are many reasons that … privatization is attractive for the central government of developing countries. If substantial, these revenues from the sale of … state owned enterprises can present a potential solution to persistent deficits. On the other hand, the privatization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468754
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Liquidity, Volatility, and Equity Trading Costs Across Countries and Over Time
Domowitz, Ian; Glen, Jack; Madhavan, Ananth - 2000
Actual investment performance reflects the underlying strategy of the portfolio manager and the execution costs incurred in realizing those objectives. Execution costs, especially in illiquid markets, can dramatically reduce the notional return to an investment strategy. This paper examines the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476685
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Competition and Enterprise Performance in Transition Economies: Evidence from a Cross-country Survey
Carlin, Wendy; Fries, Steven; Schaffer, Mark E.; … - 2001
This paper uses a survey of 3,300 firms in 25 transition countries to shed light on the factors that influence restructuring by firms and their subsequent performance as measured by growth in sales and in sales per employee over a three-year period. We begin by surveying what a decade of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476768
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Explaining Postcommunist Economic Performance
King, Lawrence Peter - 2003
mass privatization program) creates severe supply-and-demand shocks for enterprises, inducing firm failure. This leads to a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476836