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Showing 1 to 20 of 49 for “"LDCs"”.
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A survey of current debt crisis in LDCs
Call number: LD2668 .R4 ECON 1989 F8
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Exchange rate volatility in LDCs: some findings from the Ghanaian, Mozambican and Tanzanian markets
… the nature of exchange rate behaviour in three LDCs: Ghana, Mozambique and Tanzania. These countries have gone through comparable policy engagements with the IMF, have followed similar floating exchange rate regimes since early 1990s and currently all adhere to the IMF convention of free current …
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International technology transfer and its role in the industrialisation of Less Developed Countries (LDCs) such as Iran
… Although many Less Developed Countries (LDCs) have realised the great importance of technological transformation for their rapid economic and industrial development, they have not designed effective and efficient policies and strategies for the transfer of appropriate and high-level …
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Compare Nutritionally Related Health Outcomes Between Least Developed Countries Receiving Minimal Versus Substantial Food Aid from the United States
… of the populations in least developed countries (LDCs). The average prevalences of nutritionally related health parameters in children under five living in LDCs receiving high amounts of food aid per capita from the U.S. were compared to the same prevalences in LDCs receiving low amounts of food …
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The Least Developed Countries, the World Trade Organisation and the Norm of Special Treatment
… treatment of the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) in the World Trade Organisation (WTO). The categorisation of the LDCs by the United Nations in 1971 not only created a new classification of counties, but also created an international norm of special treatment for these countries. The norm of …
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Interest income taxation and household saving behavior in less-developed economies: An empirical investigation
… saving behavior in the less developed countries (LDCs). In particular, it seeks to answer two main questions: whether household saving in the LDCs is responsive to interest income tax rate changes and whether the existing interest income tax systems in the LDCs are efficient in the sense of not …
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Developments in long distance commuting to London
… Stated preference methods were used to test LDCs' sensitivity to journey time and price elasticity, which by industry's evidence are known to affect commuting behaviour. A logit formula was then applied to explain the latter. Other issues (economic activity, demography, location of residence …
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The 'Other' Energy Crisis and Economic Development: The Role of Noncommercial Fuels in Indian Subsistence Agriculture (Fuelwood, Biogas, Household Production Resources; India)
… the study of energy and economic development in LDCs is the role of noncommercial fuels, such as fuelwood, dung and crop wastes, in the subsistence household's decision-making process. This dissertation has attempted to redress this deficiency and in the process fill the gap between studies on …
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Aid-Foreign Direct Investment Linkages: A Case Study of Aid and Foreign Direct Investment in Uganda.
… the remaining 5 percent distributed across 140 LDCs. This low level of private inflows to poor developing countries is well below that required to generate widely agreed the annual average growth in GDP of 6 per cent for a considerable period of time (UNCTAD, 2000) to tackle their high level of …
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The macroeconomics of developing countries: A post-Keynesian perspective
… economics is that less developed countries (LDCs) are inherently non-Keynesian. We take issue with these statements and in this dissertation, address the question of the degree to which Keynesian principles apply to developing countries.
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Helping the Poor Help Themselves: Flaws with Conventional Foreign Aid, and Arguments for an International Islamic Financial Institution
… countries and least developed countries (LDCs) to boost their economic growth as the means to achieve economic and human development. The assistance given by the donors usually is accompanied by policy reform conditions imposed on the economy and politics of receiver countries. …
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ADAPTATION TO FLOODING IN LOW-INCOME URBAN SETTLEMENTS OF THE LEAST DEVELOPED COUNTRIES: A CASE OF DHAKA EAST, BANGLADESH
… settlements in the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) present an extreme case where catastrophic hazards (natural events) and chronic hazards (developed through lack of basic services) overlap. These low-income urban populations often occupy informal settlements that are particularly exposed to …
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A study of factors that impact on executive network marketing in financial institutions in LDCs. An examination of factors that impact on executive network marketing in the finacial services sector in less developed countries: The case of Ghana.
… network marketing in financial institutions in LDCs where the market system is underdeveloped. The proposed model identified four categories being: firm characteristics, Executives’ personal contact groups, Executives’ business contact groups and issues of commitment and trust in exchange …
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Steel, Trade, and Development: A Comparative Advantage Analysis With Special Reference to the Case of Brazil
… production in favor of less developed countries (LDCs) in the post-World War II era. The basic research question is whether Brazil, one of the leading steel producers in the Periphery, had already achieved comparative advantage in large scale steel production by the late 1970s.
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Macroeconomics and money in developing countries: an econometric model for an Asian region
… Thailand. A regional econometric model for Asian LDCs was lacking in the realm of global econometric models and this study is an attempt to bridge this gap by building a first ever model for this region. In the demand side of the model volume equations for consumption, investment, exports and …
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Locally Decodable Codes and Private Information Retrieval Schemes
… related notions, namely Locally Decodable Codes (LDCs) and Private Information Retrieval Schemes (PIRs). Locally decodable codes are error-correcting codes that allow extremely efficient, "sublinear-time" decoding procedures. More formally, a k-query locally decodable code encodes n-bit messages x …
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Market inefficiencies in the equalization of regional unemployment rate differentials in less-developed countries
… migration, and they are especially important in LDCs, where a high proportion of the population is living at or below poverty levels.
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A MACROECONOMIC MODEL FOR INTEREST-FREE ECONOMIES: AN INTEGRATIVE STUDY OF WESTERN AND ISLAMIC ECONOMIC SYSTEMS (BANKING)
… the interest-based financing are compared for LDCs in inflationary environment.</p><p>It is found that profit-sharing ratios play much the same role in an interest-free economy that is played by interest rates in a Western economy so it is possible to manipulate the profit-sharing ratio in an …
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Structure, Productivity Growth and Spillover Effects: An Empirical Investigation of Indonesian Manufacturing
… for foreign investors, provided by many LDCs to win a fierce competition among themselves in attracting foreign firms to invest in their countries.
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Mobile government readiness in Africa : the case of Malawi.
… research that has been conducted before for LDCs. Concentration is not on the individual dimension such as technology, but rather the focus is on an overall m-government readiness, which includes the high level dimensions (themes) of technology, organisation, environment and tasks.
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