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Showing 1 to 20 of 40 for “"Economic Goals"”.
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Do Self-Help Groups Work on Achieving Economic Goals? New Evidence from a Field Experiment in Medellin, Colombia
… It promotes self-improvement through setting goals, incentive schemes, and self-help groups (SHGs). The results suggest that the FII model can be successfully implemented as a poverty alleviation policy in a developing country. The model does have a positive and significant effect on debt …
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Does Ownership Matter in Ethnic Media Firms? The Economic Goals of Media Firms for Ethnic Groups and Media Firms Owned by Ethnic Groups
… to examine the impact the ownership has on the economic goals of ethnic newspapers. A comparison between 24 newspapers owned by ethnic groups (media-by) and 24 newspapers for ethnic groups (media-for) showed a pattern consistent with media-for newspapers being more interested in making a profit, …
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The political economy of Anglo-American naval relations: pirates, slavers and the equatorial Atlantic, 1819 to 1863
… deployment within the context of political and economic goals. The study reveals that Britain and the United States used sea power for commerce protection, but also believed that it could be used to further long-term economic goals. However, the different ways in which Britain and the United …
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Film and Television: An Analytical History of Economic and Creative Integration
… between the two media is mitigated by shared economic goals and philosophical assumptions interlocking them in capitalistic private enterprise.
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Informing the theory of collective entrepreneurship: investment choice
… will not act collectively to further common economic goals except under certain conditions. This work utilizes transaction cost economics, an ownership cost framework, and the concept of entrepreneurial spawning to analyze the conditions that lead to the emergence of collective ventures. A …
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From litigation to arbitration: promoting international commercial arbitration through harmonisation in the East African community
… resolution mechanisms in the broader context of economic development. It argues that there is a need for legal reform of the old arbitration legislation in the region. Furthermore, it posits that adopting a uniform statute on international commercial arbitration is essential to achieving the …
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Is there a place for the public interest considerations in the competition legislation of a developing country like South Africa - generally, and specifically with respect to merger evaluation : an economic and legal analysis
… whether its consideration enhances the stated economic goals of income and wealth distribution with the overarching goal of realising economic growth and development.
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Determining the impacts of selected energy policies on Gauteng's residential energy consumption and the associated emissions using LEAP as a tool for analysis : implications for sustainable livelihoods for the poor
Energy is a key factor in economic growth and also central to meeting basic socio-economic goals. The use and production of energy in South Africa is associated with greenhouse gas (GHGs) emissions and pollution problems. Gauteng‘s residential sector is faced with a slowing rate of electrification …
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Infrastructural Landscape: Strategies for Post-Industrial Reuse
… infrastructure must meet social, ecological, and economic goals while preforming it's desired function. Strategies are proposed at the scale of the Great Lakes, Lake Erie, and Erie, PA. Those strategies are then applied through design at the former GAF Shingle manufacturing site.
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How the City State Fares Under State Capitalism in the PRC: Local and State-Wide Reform
How do national political and economic policies impact the ability of cities to accomplish urban growth and economic goals? This study examines the state policies Shanghai operates under to assess the potential for software reform in China. Specifically, this study examines software by drawing on …
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"Soft power efforts, hard power gains" : India's economic diplomacy towards Africa using Nigeria and Kenya as examples
Economic diplomacy and commercial diplomacy as soft power tools plays an increasingly significant role in the enhancement of national economic goals and enhanced economic relations between countries. Economic diplomacy is carried out by a government to support its foreign policy goals or diplomacy …
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The Development of Capital Market in Thailand
For a variety of reasons, the economic pace of nations throughout the world has proceeded at a sharply varying rate. It is characteristic of the lagging nations, broadly described as developing countries, to want to accelerate their rates of growth as rapidly as possible. It has been expedient at …
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The relationship between land-use and urban freeway interchanges
… of people and goods to achieve the social and economic goals of society. It has long been accepted that there is a relationship between land-use and transportation. Transportation facilities influence the location and intensity of land-use activities while these activities generate the need for …
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The development of the contested city form of Shenzhen, China
The population of Shenzhen Special Economic Zone has exploded, within twenty-three years, from thirty thousand to 4.7 million with average 28 percent annual per capita GDP increase. What city forms have been sustaining this rapid economic and population growth? Why has the city adopted these forms? …
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Translating international commitments to domestic action : Mercury co-benefits, sustainable development, and climate policy in China
… Mercury and the global Sustainable Development Goals. Understanding the interactions between climate change, air pollution, and sustainable development can help decision-makers identify more effective policies that can address environmental and economic goals simultaneously. To address …
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Rules of origin for services in economic integration agreements : a case study of SADC
… trade in services are especially important in Economic Integration Agreements, which are proliferating in response to the changes in global trade and production. The Southern African Development Community commenced the Protocol on Trade in Services negotiations in April 2012 with the objective …
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Examining LLMs in Economic Settings
Humans are not homo economicus (i.e., rational economic beings). We exhibit systematic behavioral biases such as loss aversion, anchoring, framing, etc., which lead us to make suboptimal economic decisions. Insofar as such biases may embedded in text data on which large language models (LLMs) are …
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When problems knock at the organization's door - a theory of motivation to change, problemistic search and choice of action : organization theory under a behavioral lens
… it develops theory of managerial attention to goals, sense making, and decision making. The second, investigates how and to what extent in family firms the pursuit of a variety of non-economic goals shapes family owners’ and managers’ cognitive frameworks and their interpretation of the …
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Electric vehicle technology in Kathmandu, Nepal : a closer look at development
… industry have been the disparate interests and goals of stakeholders, in particular the resistance and hostility of fossil-fuel interests, and deficiencies in human resources and support networks. Analysis of these impediments yields lessons on how EV advocates can overcome these obstacles. …
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Observer-based fault detection for nuclear reactors
… a decision rule that could achieve the desired economic goals. This technique is applied to nuclear reactor systems and simulations are carried out. The one-group linear nuclear reactor model is used in the observer. The system is modeled by a one-group linear model and by a six-group non-linear …
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