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The author shows with pooled OLS estimations based on transport margins from international social accounting data that investments in improved road infrastructure have the potential to significantly reduce transport costs. However, this result can only be clearly confirmed for industrial...
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Education is considered an important means of alleviating poverty and of improving an individual's job and earnings prospects. Nevertheless, in Haiti and the Dominican Republic school enrollment is far from complete and shows notable regional variation. This paper analyzes determinants of...
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problem is at the heart of rational asymmetric development between rich and poor countries. Piketty has shown that inequality … African countries, inequality in development increases and African may not catch-up with the developed world. As an ideal … not be so apparent. Implications for the corresponding upward bias in endogenous development and catch-up literature are …
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's top 2500 companies ranked by their investments in Research and Development (R&D). The sample contains 633 companies based …
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Intellectual property consists of a firm of property values is included in intangible assets. These property values can be any of the items under the protection of industrial property in Romania (patents, trademarks, products or commercial, industrial designs, topographies of integrated...
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This paper examines the effects of development agencies’ interventions on productivity and profitability of women shea … butter processors in contributing to the development of the shea nut industry in Northern Ghana. A survey of 114 women shea … butter processors, comprising of 57 each of both beneficiaries and non-beneficiaries of development interventions in the West …
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The study examines the contributions of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) towards Agricultural Development … relationship between contributions of ICT facilities to agricultural development and selected agricultural websites accessed which … agricultural researchers to enhance their accessibility, usage and contributions to agricultural development. …
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Global processes and local areas that have become part of the worldwide economic and social development and part of the … using a single numeric value. The objective was to assess the level of development of local evaluation of financial health … by a clear differentiation in terms of traits and the same level of local development. Research suggests five types of …
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The aim of this article is to indicate problems connected with the process of building a traditional food products market. Special attention is paid to its weakness ensuing from its small capacity caused by poor knowledge of traditional products among Polish consumers. On the other hand the...
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This article deals with the research of entrepreneurship development in the frame of institutional environment in the … development from the perspective of entrepreneurs and willingness to start own business. The surveys revealed that institutional … better system of support and information transfer for new entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship development. …
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