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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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Australia's mining productivity paradox: implications for MFP measurement
Zheng, S.; Bloch, Harry - 2010
This paper investigates the mining industry's poor productivity performance as measured by the conventional multifactor … productivity (MFP) index during the recent mining boom in Australia. We derive a relationship between the measured and 'true' MFP … average MFP growth in Australian mining based on the dual measure of technical change is nearly 2% over the sample period 1974 …
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Office of the Chief Financial Officer Annual Report 2010
Fernandez, Jeffrey - 2011
to easily extract data; the field has little confidence in data; people spend more time mining data than analyzing data …
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Economic Predictions for Heat Mining: A Review and Analysis of Hot Dry Rock (HDR) Geothermal Energy Technology
Tester, Jefferson W.; Herzog, Howard J. - 2007
The main objectives of this study were first, to review and analyze several economic assessments of Hot Dry Rock (HDR) geothermal energy systems, and second, to reformulate an economic model for HDR with revised cost components. The economic models reviewed include the following studies...
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Concept for the Intermountain Center for Mining Research and Development
2009
The Intermountain Center for Mining Research and Development (ICMRD) was established with the Idaho National Laboratory … (INL) as the cornerstone, and with regional universities, mining schools, and the Western mining industry as full members …. In aggregate, the members provide the strong mining research and development capabilities and knowledge that are …
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Index of harm: a measure for comparing occupational risk across industries
Solomon, K.A.; Abraham, S.C. - 2008
fatality rates by showing the riskiest industries to be mining; agriculture, forestry, and fisheries; construction …
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Ethics, Practice, and Future of Islamic Banking and Finance
Montgomery, John - 2010
This paper explores the ethical mandates of Islamic banking and finance (IBF) and then studies the recent performance of IBF on the positive level. The ethical section is divided into four parts: (1) promotion of trade and cooperation, (2) prohibition of ribā and of profiting without risk, (3)...
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Islam and social movements
In: Islam : critical concepts in sociology. 2003
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Income Distribution and Price Controls: Targeting a Social Safety Net During Economic Transition
Alexeev, Michael; Leitzel, James - 1999
During the ongoing post-communist economic transitions, the relative well-being of many people is changing rapidly, and governments are not well positioned to accurately measure individual living standards. Under such circumstances, continued price controls over basic consumer goods within the...
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