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Showing 1 to 20 of 153 for “"Government intervention."”.
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Government intervention in the shipping industry
Thesis (S.M. in Ocean Systems Management)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Ocean Engineering, 2002.
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Three Essays On Welfare Effects Of Government Intervention
… energy security. The desire to understand what governmental tools and how to apply to protect the local and global environment effectively and efficiently is a core driver for researches in the subfield of environmental economics. Despite the progress made in the modeling of social welfare with …
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Effects of government intervention on human capital accumulation, employment, and migration
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2024-12-01
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Adverse selection and government intervention in life and health insurance markets
… The first two papers examine the effect of government tax and regulatory policy in markets for supplementary health insurance. The third paper presents new evidence of the importance of adverse selection in insurance markets. The first paper examines the empirical consequences of imposing …
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Misreading history--government intervention in the development of commercial communications satellites
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1990.
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Planning across distance : remote housing and government intervention in Australia's Northern Territory
… by the Australian and Northern Territory governments to improve housing in 73 remote and widely scattered indigenous communities in the Territory. Emerging at a time when indigenous issues shot to the forefront of national politics, SIHIP was billed as a response to the widespread …
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A Need for Government Intervention? Prescription Drug Prices and Retail Mark-ups
The high cost of prescription drugs has been an issue that numerous federal agencies have examined for years. In 2003, Congress passed the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act, better known as Medicare Part D, in an effort to ease the burden of skyrocketing prescription …
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The struggle for vibrancy : a study of local government intervention in Detroit's inner suburbs
… struggle with aging infrastructure, limited governmental capacity, commercial disinvestment, population decline, poverty, failing schools, and racial and ethnic tensions. These challenges are compounded by growing fiscal difficulties fueled by shrinking revenues and increasing costs. This …
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Student aid and college attendance : analysis of government intervention in the higher education market
… by this chapter was a cost-effective use of government resources. Chapter 2 explores the response of middle- and upper-income youth to tuition subsidies. Traditionally, federal student aid has focused on low-income students. However, the new federal Hope Scholarship is aimed squarely at …
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Government intervention to alleviate poverty in South Africa, with a specific focus on poverty in the Eastern Cape
When the new democratic government in South Africa came to power in 1994, it inherited a legacy of inequality, unemployment and poverty. Mindful of this triple challenge the government’s first socioeconomic policy framework, the White Paper on Reconstruction and Development (RDP) of 1994, stated …
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The effects of varying forms and degrees of government intervention upon the effective competitiveness of UK small businesses
… to the investigation is the theme that for governments to effectively influence small business, a sound understanding of the factors they are seeking to influence is essential. Moreover, the study, in its recognition of the many shortcomings in management research and, in particular that the …
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Government intervention in women entrepreneurship development: opportunities and challenges for Bumiputera women entrepreneurs (BWEs) in the handicraft industry in Malaysia
… study provides insights into the influences of government intervention on the business survival of Bumiputera women entrepreneurs in the handicraft industry in Malaysia in which Bumiputera refers to the indigenous people and the largest population group in the country. The Malaysian handicraft …
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Innováció-finanszírozás asszimetrikus információs helyzetben. Az állami beavatkozás hatása = Financing of Innovation under Asymmetric Information. The Effect of Government Intervention
Elméleti és empirikus szempontból egyaránt igazolt és széleskörűen dokumentált tény, hogy a gazdasági növekedés fő hajtómotorja az innováció. Az innovációk azonban számos olyan jellemzővel bírnak, amelyek megnehezítik a finanszírozást. Az innovációk leginkább abban különböznek az átlagos üzleti …
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The limits of liberalism? : long-run petroleum prices and government intervention in petroleum markets in Japan, France, and the United States
This study considers cross-national and inter-temporal variation in national oil policies in Japan, France, and the United States. A test was performed of the extent to which policies in these countries continue to emphasize national control over the petroleum supply chain, or have adopted more …
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Speeding the uptake of electric vehicles in Australia: social attitudes to electric vehicle purchase and recommendations for government intervention to address market failures
… To recommend possible actions for Australian governments that could advance EV uptake two research streams were undertaken: 1) analysis of government actions in the more successful markets to identify international best practice; 2) original research, using online questionnaires, to identify …
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Curriculum innovation through teacher certification: Evaluation of a government intervention and its effects on teacher development and English language pedagogy in South Korea
… the meaning of success regarding ELT-policy interventions, draws attention to the need for evaluating their realised process against a well-defined concept of localised ELT expertise, and contributes to our understanding of the requirements underpinning their success and the effect they have …
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A theory of the efficiency of jurisdictional choice: the case of corporate federalism
… the current system point to the lack of strict government intervention. into the ongoing affairs of the business corporation as the result of state competition for corporate charters. Such competition is made feasible by the ability of each state to draft corporation laws of its own choosing, …
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Development strategies and the exports of textiles and apparel: a comparative analysis of South Korea and India
… the textile and apparel export patterns and government intervention of South Korea and India, 1955-1985, through comparative historical analysis. The sectoral study proceeded under the premise that a prime determinant of export success is the nature of government intervention. The conceptual …
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Do private water tankers in Bangalore exhibit "mafia-like" behavior?
… controlled by extortionary "mafias" and call for government regulation. This thesis explores whether government regulation is justified in the case of Bangalore, India where water issues have become increasingly pressing and informal water vendors, also known as the "water mafia," have grown in …
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