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Using pension funds in infrastructure finance in Africa : the case of NEPAD projects

Chuckun, Vedvyas Sharma - 2010

.6 trillion of which US$16.2 trillion isheld by pension funds (Inderst, 2009). Infrastructure investments provide … infrastructure investments especially in the NEPADinfrastructure projects. The global trends in pension fund investments in … infrastructure arereviewed to propose a model for infrastructure investments by African pension funds andsome recommendations are put …

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Factors influencing venture capitalist's project financing decisions in South Africa

Van Deventer, Albertus Gert - 2008

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Venture capital is a major source of funding for the entrepreneurial community and usually focuses on the early stage, more risk orientated business endeavours. This study explores and identifies the investment criteria used by South African venture capitalists in their venture...

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Investment Spikes in Dutch Horticulture: An Analysis at Firm and Aggregate Firm Level Over the Period 1975-1999

Goncharova, Natalia V.; Oskam, Arie J. - 2006

An intermittent and lumpy pattern of investments is observed in the Dutch horticulture sector: only 16.5% of firms …

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Land Inequality and Economic Growth: A Dynamic Panel Data Approach

Fort, Ricardo; Ruben, Ruerd - 2006

The growing body of literature devoted to study the impact of inequality on economic growth have centred its attention in the income distribution effect, even though the theoretical relationships are more related to assets distributions than to income distribution. While some recent studies have...

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Optimal Energy Investment and R&D Strategies to Stabilise Greenhouse Gas Atmospheric Concentrations

Carraro, Carlo; Bosetti, Valentina; Massetti, Emanuele; … - 2007

The stabilisation of GHG atmospheric concentrations at levels expected to prevent dangerous climate change has become an important, global, long-term objective. It is therefore crucial to identify a cost-effective way to achieve this objective. In this paper we use WITCH, a hybrid...

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Co-innovation: what are the success factors?

Bremmers, Harry J.; Sabidussi, Anna - 2009

The problem we address in this paper is that in projects focusing on public-private cooperation to stimulate innovation in theNetherlands, initiatives often lack continuation after the study-phase. We extracted possible influencing variables from business and (transaction)cost economic...

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The decision to invest and the investment level: An application to Dutch glasshouse horticulture firms

Oskam, Arie J.; Goncharova, Natalia V.; Verstegen, Jos … - 2009

takeinto account the different nature of both decisions. ‘Nearly zero’ investments are consideredto be small replacement or … maintenance investments and treated as ‘zero’ investments.The applied two-step Heckman model shows that the decision to invest is …

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EX-ANTE EVALUATION OF AGRI-ENVIRONMENTAL SCHEMES: COMBINING ELEMENTS OF PRIVATE AND PUBLIC DECISION MAKING

Bartolini, Fabio; Gallerani, Vittorio; Viaggi, Davide - 2008

The objective of this paper is to set a complete ex-ante evaluation to support Decision Makers in designingmore efficient and effective agri-environmental contracts, through an integrated modelling of elements ofprivate and public decision making. Ex-ante comparison of policy design options in...

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The exchange rate effects on different types of foreign direct investment

Kim, Chang Yong - 2010

xii, 132 p. : ill. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number.

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THE IMPACT OF THE COLLECTIVE INVESTMENT SCHEMES CONTROL ACT ON UNIT TRUSTS

MAZHAKATA, JOSHUA - 2011

The Collective Investment Schemes Control Act (2002), (CISCA) was promulgated into law on 12 December 2002 and became effective on 3 March 2003. CISCA introduces a number of changes to bring the Collective Investment Schemes in line with international practice. It replaces the Unit Trusts...

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