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A Profession on the Margins: Status Issues in Indian Nursing
Nair, Sreelekha; Healey, Madelaine - eSocialSciences - 2009
registered nurses of India have faced. Through this paper, the problem of ‘social status’ in both historical and contemporary …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008512482
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BACKGROUNDS OF THE ECONOMIC COOPERATION BETWEEN UKRAINE AND THE REPUBLIC OF CYPRUS
ANATOLIIVNA, DUBENYUK YAROSLAVA - In: Вісник Маріупольського … (2011) 3, pp. 154-166
The article is devoted to systematization and characteristics of the main pre-conditions of bilateral economic relations realization between Ukraine and the Republic of Cyprus, much attention is paid to the assessment and the comparative characteristics of the social and economic indices of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011215314
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<i>Ex-Post</i> Critical Evaluations of Energy Policies in Malaysia from 1970 to 2010: A Historical Institutionalism Perspective
Abdul-Manan, Amir F. N.; Baharuddin, Azizan; Chang, Lee Wei - In: Energies 8 (2015) 3, pp. 1936-1957
<i>Ex-post</i> evaluations of energy policies in Malaysia between 1970 and 2010 were conducted. The developments of energy policies in Malaysia were traced from the early 1970s with the introduction of the country’s first energy-related policy all the way to 2010 with the country’s first endeavour...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011200283
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The Demand for Environmental Quality in Driving Transitions to Low Polluting Energy Sources
Fouquet, Roger - 2011
The purpose of this paper is to understand the long run demand for energy-related environmental quality, its influence on legislation and on transitions to low polluting energy sources. It starts by presenting a simple framework of the relationship between the demand for and supply of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009364716
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Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries
Naude, Wim; Szirmai, Adam; Goedhuys, Micheline - eSocialSciences - 2011
from historical, cross-country and individual country experiences. [UNU Policy Brief 01/2011]. URL …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323949
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From Europe to the Americas: a comparative panel-data analysis of migration to Argentina, Brazil, and the United States, 1870–1910
Balderas, J. Ulyses; Greenwood, Michael - In: Journal of Population Economics 23 (2010) 4, pp. 1301-1318
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Trends and Growth in Livestock Population in Sindh: A Comparison of Different Censuses
Wasim, Mohammad Pervez - In: Indus Journal of Management & Social Science (IJMSS) 1 (2007) 1, pp. 53-69
Livestock represents an important component of the agricultural sector in Pakistan especially Sindh. Indeed, crop and livestock activities are, to a great extent, interdependent upon each other, for their functioning within the farm sector. The latter provides inputs like farm yard manure (FYM)...
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Plantation Economics, Violence, and Social Well-being: The Lingering Effects of Racialized Group Oppression on Contemporary Human Development in the American South
Porter, Jeremy - In: Journal of Human Development and Capabilities 12 (2011) 3, pp. 339-366
access to resources for some while opening doors for others. It is expected that patterns of historical racialized inequality … are the by-product of a historical lack of investment in the cultural capital of the local community, which later … pattern in the American South, this link is tested using historical and contemporary data from the US Census Bureau, the …
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Monetary theory and policy from a Chinese historical perspective
Xueyi, Zheng; Yaguang, Zhang; Whalley, John - In: China Economic Review 26 (2013) C, pp. 89-104
In this paper, we discuss monetary thought in ancient China from the perspective of Western monetary theory. We set out the structure of economic activity in the various dynasties of ancient China and emphasize the differences in monetary structure from those of Europe and later North America....
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Religion and politics: understanding the effects of conservative origins on contemporary patterns of sub-national relative human development
Porter, Jeremy - In: Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology 46 (2012) 5, pp. 1359-1376
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