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Showing 1 to 20 of 77 for “"Policy intervention"”.
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Commercial policy intervention in intra-industry trade: A dual approach to general equilibrium analysis
… It has been found that the exercise of trade policy to protect an IRS industry may benefit an economy, even if this economy can not influence the prices of foreign goods. Recent work, however, mostly remains partial and model-specific.
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Exogenous drivers of public transit and ride-hailing ridership: a study of policy intervention, COVID-19, and the relationship between ride-hailing and public transit in Chicago
… to various external factors, including a direct policy intervention, a public health emergency, and emerging mobility services, and what lessons can be extracted for policymakers and transit system operators?” Through Chicago-based case studies of the questions above, this thesis examines the …
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Analysis of the performance challenges affecting state-owned refineries in Nigeria: a systems thinking approach.
… to develop a decision-support model to inform policy intervention measures that will address the refining problems from a holistic viewpoint. Using a literature search, the study identified several challenging factors, which it initially categorised within a political, economic, social, …
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Amorality and morality penalties in selection decisions
… morality (Study 1.2). An ethics-focused hiring policy intervention encourages selectors to consider candidates’ moral attributes, to show moral awareness, and to adopt an ethical decision frame when making selection decisions (Study 1.3). In Chapter 2, I investigate how selectors evaluate …
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Three essays on the welfare and social impacts of external shocks and public policies in Mexico
… associated with one economic shock and two policy interventions in Mexico. I use non-experimental approaches that exploit increased data availability as well as in-depth knowledge of the institutional background and show how germane extensions in the methodology shed light on previously …
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HIV/AIDS Intervention in Ghana: A Constructivist Approach to Understanding AIDS Policy
This study is about how donor policy, NGO policy and public policy work together in Ghana's national strategic response to HIV and AIDS. The dissertation touches on two areas of public policy - development policy and health policy specifically relating to HIV/AIDS to determine congruity of the …
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Distributional effects of the Mexican agricultural trade policies: The tomato case
… cost; and (3) the cost of income support due to policy intervention. For the computation of welfare effects associated with tomato trade policies, price and income elasticities were estimated from an econometric model representing the domestic and foreign markets for Mexican tomatoes.
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An empirical investigation of employee training and development in Greek manufacturing small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)
Skills are increasingly identified by policy makers as a central means to address social and economic challenges at national and supranational levels. The present study looks specifically at the Greek economy and explores the determinants, nature and extent of skills development in Greek …
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Beyond polarity : Campus-Community-Radio and new relations of power in radio broadcasting policy in Canada
… frames through which radio broadcasting policy has been explored. It introduces Foucault's model of study and frame of analysis termed governmentality. The second part is an ethnographic examination of specific policy, programming and operations of campus-community radio station CKUT-FM …
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State-of-the-art pollution control technology : global market pull or domestic regulatory push?
… overseas consumer demands. The important public policy lesson from this study was that only some of the factors that contributed to the decisions to adopt oxygen bleaching were amenable to domestic policy intervention. The presence of non-replicable factors suggests that there are no easy answers …
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Understanding special economic zone policy in China : a conceptual framework and two cases
As a prominent place-based policy (PBP) in China, special economic zones (SEZ) contribute a substantial portion of GDP using very little land. Similar practices such as enterprise zones, industrial parks, and business districts widely exist in other parts of the world, but studies of such PBP's …
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Momentum, Nonlinear Price Discovery and Asymmetric Spillover: Sovereign Credit Risk and Equity Markets of Emerging Countries and
… of the market (world) or regimes. Investors and policy makers respond differently in the two regimes but the response in the turbulent market condition is amplified as policy makers attempt to smoothen the fluctuations and uncertainty while investors rebalance their portfolios in an attempt to …
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On Terrorist Attacks and Estimation Methods
… series hazard model that estimates the effect of policy interventions on the risk of terrorist attacks. Recent contributions include LaFree et al. (2009), Dugan (2011), Carson (2014) Argomaniz and Vidal-Diez (2015), and Carson (2017). A major limitation of the series hazard approach is that it is …
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Tribal economic development bonds : lessons learned and implications for nation-building
… Development Bond Program (TEDB Program), a policy intervention aimed to address the root cause of this issue by temporarily expanding Tribal municipal bonding authority and other forms of tax-free debt service. I used IRS published schedules of TEDB allocations, Bloomberg, EMMA and …
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Chieftaincy reform, decentralisation and post-conflict state reconstruction and peacebuilding in Sierra Leone 2004-2012
… it enhances our understanding of key debates and policy intervention practices on post-war peacebuilding and state reconstruction in transition societies. It also contributes to the existing literature on post-conflict peacebuilding by positing that there is a huge challenge to the Liberal Peace …
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Chieftaincy reform, decentralisation and post-conflict state reconstruction and peacebuilding in Sierra Leone 2004-2012
… it enhances our understanding of key debates and policy intervention practices on post-war peacebuilding and state reconstruction in transition societies. It also contributes to the existing literature on post-conflict peacebuilding by positing that there is a huge challenge to the Liberal Peace …
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An interpretative approach in conceptualising entrepreneurial success in Limpopo Province, South Africa
… for business performance as well as a basis for policy intervention.
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From policy to practice: examining the impact and implementation of the rapid land release program in addressing South Africa's housing backlog
… the Rapid Land Release Program (“RLRP”) as a policy intervention designed to address South Africa's persistent housing backlog. The RLRP, rooted in the principles of incremental housing, aims to provide serviced land to beneficiaries for self-construction, reflecting a shift from traditional, …
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Supply Chain Resilience for Healthcare Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) in the Federal Government
… This research explored the effects of one such policy intervention, the “Making PPE in America Act” of 2021, on maintaining healthcare supply chain resilience of the healthcare supply chains for non-military areas of the U.S. government. Two qualitative studies were conducted to examine the …
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