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Purpose – A variety of biomass plantations are being raised for energy production. This case study is on energy … well as biomass as agro residue (solid fuel). The purpose of the study is to estimate total energy yields of oil bearing …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to postulate, in addition to “moral” and “strategic” considerations, a third general standard for corporate social responsibility (CSR). That third approach is what moral philosophers call “virtue ethics.” Design/methodology/approach – This...
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This paper examines the performance of nominal income targeting as a possible direction for monetary policy. The … if this policy had been adopted. To provide better assessment of the performance of nominal income targeting in practice …, this paper focuses on Germany where this policy is implemented. The results highlight the importance of price stability in …
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This paper contrasts the different regional effects of an homogeneous monetary policy, and studies the local … evidence of statistically different regional responses of real variables to monetary policy shocks. We use these estimated … position, as well as the degree of nominal wage indexation, enhance the effect of monetary policy.  …
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policy in Taiwan using newly constructed binary monetary indicators. We develop a practical sampling scheme via the Gibbs … sampling algorithm with data augmentation to make posterior inference of the binary monetary policy reaction function. In … contractionary monetary policy is implemented to reduce the inflation rate. Once inflation is under control, that is, in the low …
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outcome may subsequently help to explain the limited impact of policy on regional growth.  …
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dissenters and also by external pressure in the form of national competition policy. The case is particularly notable in that the …
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Governments have overspent. In recent times the drive for economic recovery partly brought about by this overspending has seen governments screening entire portfolios of expenditure to see what they can reduce or terminate. The review process concerns the identification of goods and services...
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The process of public policy making involves different levels of government administrative organs and other interests …
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Explores how globalisation has affected Australian public policy in general and higher education policy in particular …
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