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The Road to Development is Paved With Good Institutions: The Political and Economic Implications of Financial Markets

Brown, Chelsea Denise - 2008

This research seeks to identify the factors that account for the variation in development levels across nations by focusing on the institutional components of development, especially the effects of financial market development on economic and political development. I argue that financial market...

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Die Lissabon-Strategie : Wachstum und Beschäftigung durch ländliche Entwicklung

2005

Wirtschaftswachstum, Arbeitsplätzen und Wettbewerbsfähigkeit auf den Weltmärkten. Ziel der Lissabon-Strategie, eines wichtigen …

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Making WKU a Fair Trade University

Vaughan, Matthew John - 2011

Many products consumed on college campuses such as coffee and chocolate come from developing countries where producers are often paid insufficiently and exploited. Fair Trade certification of products guarantees producers a fair price and other social benefits. The objective of my CE/T project...

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Serving the Highly Vulnerable Customer: The Awareness of Transformative Service Behaviors in Sensitive Populations

Aiello, Taryn - 2011

The purpose of this study is to identify ideal behaviors and attitudes that are needed by service providers that cater to highly vulnerable populations. While the conceptualization of customer vulnerability has been widely debated in business, marketing, sociology, and psychology scholarly...

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Poverty Analysis Using an International Cross-Country Demand System

Cranfield, John; Preckel, Paul; Hertel, Thomas - 2006

This paper proposes a new method for ex ante analysis of the poverty impacts arising from policy reforms. Three innovations underlie this approach. The first is the estimation of a global demand system using a combination of micro-data from household surveys, and macro-data from the...

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Economic Development And Community Colleges: Attributes, Attitudes And Satisfaction Levels Of Western North Carolina Stakeholders

Gossett, John Dorsey - 2002

North Carolina's Rural Prosperity Task Force and the North Carolina Rural Economic Development Center have both suggested two very different states in North Carolina: the thriving urban areas and the stagnant rural areas. Both agencies recommended using the North Carolina Community College...

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A Case Study of Strategic Decision Processes In An Economic Development Initiative

Lamm, Deborah Lane - 2003

decision-making theory into the realm of economic development. Thus from this study, county, college, and industry leaders will …

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11.471 Targeting the Poor: Small Firms, Workers, and Local Economic Development, Fall 2004

Tendler, Judith - 2004

Covers conditions under which public-sector policies, programs, and projects succeed in enhancing the economic activities of poorer groups and micro-regions in developing countries. Topics include local economic development; small enterprises; various forms of collective action; labor and worker...

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11.437 Financing Economic Development, Fall 2003

Seidman, Karl F. - 2003

Focuses on financing tools and program models to support local economic development. Includes an overview of private capital markets and financing sources to understand capital market imperfections that constrain economic development; business accounting; financial statement analysis; federal...

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11.202 Gateway: Planning Economics, Fall 2002

Levy, Frank - 2002

Introduces applications of microeconomic theory to planning problems including urban form and structure, environmental … to city planning students: location theory, the interplay between externalities and zoning, international trade and … Good and Externality Theory in Practice; Location Theory and the Economic Rationale of Cities; Globalization, Trade and …

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