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Drought Coping Strategies and Their Effectiveness: The Case of Ward 12 in Mberengwa District Zimbabwe
Masendeke, Sally; Shoko, Kampion - In: International Journal of Social Science Studies 2 (2014) 1, pp. 137-152
The study was carried out in Mberengwa Ward 12, which is characterised by erratic and inadequate rainfall. Drought … drought coping strategies that are in place and to establish their effectiveness. The data was collected from informants … through questionnaires, group discussions and special interviews with key persons. Drought coping strategies which were …
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Sterilization and Inflation in the Long-Term Empirical Evidence from Egypt
Elhendawy, Emad Omar - In: Applied Economics and Finance 2 (2015) 2, pp. 68-78
bank of Egypt causes inflation in the long term. In this paper we use annual data from 1980 to 2011and use Granger … four and five lags, that any intervention by the central bank sterilization in Egypt is causing inflation in the period … significant. This means that the results of the intervention of the Central Bank of Egypt through the sterilization policy does …
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Social Movements in Tunisia and Egypt: A Tale of Two Revolutions
Mahmoud, Abdesselem - In: International Journal of Social Science Studies 3 (2015) 3, pp. 8-20
In this paper, the author addresses the Arab uprisings both in Tunisia and Egypt. He tries to explain to which extent …
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The Economy of Obligation: Incomplete Contracts and the Cost of the Welfare State
Offer, Avner - In: Economic Policy (2013) 2, pp. 109-126
Western governments usually are sent about 30% of GDP for social purposes. Financing is carried out due to tax payments through the system of taxes from current revenue (hereinafter - PAYGO, pay-as-you-go). How effective such transfers, and whether the market or other mechanisms to improve this...
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Pollution Externalities: Social Cost and Strict Liability
Lewin, Peter - In: Cato Journal 2 (1982) 1, pp. 205-229
This paper critically considers the neoclassical social-cost approach to problems of pollution. This traditional approach, when subjected to close scrutiny, is found to be seriously wanting in applicability and consistency. A less ambitious alternative based on notions of strict liability is...
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Actual Problems of Didactics of Legal Education
Agafonov, Vladimir; Komarova, Liliya; Romanov, Aleksandr; … - In: Published Papers (2014) March
Study of problems of contemporary legal education is still an actual task for improvement of academic work and reforming of educational activity of national higher school in general. The most perspective direction in methodical support of training process in legal education is a transfer to the...
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Legal Issues in Pollution-Engendered Torts
Best, Robert K.; Collins, James I. - In: Cato Journal 2 (1982) 1, pp. 101-136
The end ofWorld War II marked the birth of the modern chemical industry. From that time synthetic rubbers, fibers, and complex organohalogens have been produced in large commercial quan- tities, such that each member of modern society is exposed to chemicals of exotic physiocheniical activity....
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Imposed Risk Controversies: A Critical Analysis
Sauer, Gerald L. - In: Cato Journal 2 (1982) 1, pp. 231-253
In this paper I will focus on risk controversies of a familiar type: Someone in one locale is concerned about being seriously injured as a result of human activities carried on elsewhere. The discussion will be limited to risks that are unintentional in the sense that no one is deliberately...
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Cost-Benefit Analysis, Environmentalism, and Rights
Langlois, Richard N. - In: Cato Journal 2 (1982) 1, pp. 279-304
T0 the practical mind, particularly one trained in economics, it might sound a trifle paradoxical to suggest that the truly important issues in a public policy debate have nothing to do with the relative efficacy of the policy options. Paradoxical or not, this is very often the case. And there...
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Law, Property Rights, and Air Pollution
Rothbard, Murray - In: Cato Journal 2 (1982) 1, pp. 55-99
Law is a set of commands; the principles of tort or criminal law, which we shall be dealing with, are negative commands … wrong to such a degree that it is considered appropriate to use the sanctions of violence (since law is the social …
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