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Good governance in microcredit strategy for poverty reduction: Focus on Western Mindanao, Philippines

Moreno, Frede G. - 2004

Microcredit can be an effective tool for tackling the global poverty problem. Making microcredit work better for the … economic options of Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries within Third World economic and poverty conditions. Governance principles can … for poverty reduction and development. In view of the Philippine government’s limitations, economic and fiscal challenges …

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Rejuvenating Greece's labour market to generate more and higher-quality jobs

Bulman, Tim - 2020

Greece’s labour market entered the COVID-19 shock following several years of sustained employment growth and with wages picking up. Unemployment remained high and employment rates were low, especially among women, the young and older workers. The shock led to a sharp fall in labour force...

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THE E-LEARNING BENEFITS IN THE ROMANIAN BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT

Teodora, Vatuiu; Nicolae, Popeanga Vasile - In: Annals of Faculty of Economics 4 (2009) 1, pp. 1089-1092

E-learning is learning based on information technologies, and particularly based on the Interne educational system has a lot of advantages, such as flexibility, availability, time and resources savings and it respects the individual learning rhythm of eac

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Economic Development and Business Groups in Asia: Japan’s Experience and Implications

Nakamura, Masao - In: International Advances in Economic Research 21 (2015) 1, pp. 81-103

<Para ID="Par1">Large, extensively diversified pyramidal business groups of listed firms dominate the histories of developed economies and the economies of developing economies. While such groups (called zaibatsu in Japan) are thought to have provided coordination for big push growth successfully in...</para>

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Understanding the Effects of Crime on Women: Fear and Well-Being in the Context of Diverse Relationships

Hanley, Natalia; Ruppanner, Leah - In: Social Sciences 4 (2015) 2, pp. 276-293

The risk-fear paradox, whereby people who experience the least criminal victimisation report the greatest fear of crime, has been established in the extant literature. That this paradox is gendered, notably that women report greater fear yet are less likely to experience crime, has also been...

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Shops and the city

Veuger, Stan A.; Shoag, Daniel - American Enterprise Institute - 2014

In this paper, we estimate the size of the externalities produced by big-box retail stores for other establishments and explore the effect of the externalities on local government policy.

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The Impact of Driver Cell Phone Use on Accidents

Hahn, Robert W.; Prieger, James E. - American Enterprise Institute - 2004

This study's estimates of the reduction in accidents from a ban on cell phone use while driving are both lower and less certain than previous studies indicate.

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The impact of Act 10 on public sector compensation in Wisconsin

Biggs, Andrew George; Richwine, Jason - American Enterprise Institute - 2012

This study analyzes public sector salaries and benefits in Wisconsin, with a particular focus on disentangling the risk-adjusted value of pension benefits offered in the public sector from accounting conventions that can understate the cost and value of defined benefit pension plans.

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Swings in commercial and residential land prices in the United States

Oliner, Stephen D.; Nichols, Joseph B.; Mulhall, Michael R. - American Enterprise Institute - 2012

We use a large dataset of land sales dating back to the mid-1990s to construct land price indexes for 23 MSAs in the United States and for the aggregate of those MSAs. The price indexes show a dramatic increase in both commercial and residential land prices over several years prior to their peak...

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Uncertainty and the geography of the Great Recession

Veuger, Stan A.; Shoag, Daniel - American Enterprise Institute - 2013

We document the tight link between increased levels of economic and policy uncertainty and unemployment at the state-level during the 2007-2009 recession.

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