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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Public investments"”.
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Zimbabwe's CAMPFIRE public investments: impact on education, adaptation and preferences
… economic and behavioural implications of public investments funded by communal based wildlife management programmes, such as Communal Areas Management Programme for Indigenous Resources (CAMPFIRE) in Zimbabwe. The thesis focuses on household education and adaptive capacity production. It …
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Three Essays in Development Economics: Savings Behavior and Risk; Health and Public Investments; and Sequential Technology Adoption
… technology adoption, and the impact of public investments on the economy and community health in Ethiopia. The first paper analyzes changes in per capita consumption and savings behavior in Zimbabwe before and after a range of financial and weather-related shocks using comparable …
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Developing Critical Capacities for the efficient use of Public Investments in Infrastructure to Support Trade and Economic Development in Vietnam
… critical factors affecting the efficient use of public investments in infrastructure to support trade and economic development. Investments in infrastructure have increasingly been used to improve the infrastructure quality, thus stimulating trade and economic growth in developing countries. …
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The child care conundrum : the costs and consequences of unmet early child care needs among parents working at academic institutions across the United States
… consequences. Though research shows that large public investments could go a long way in fixing the child care conundrum and its pernicious effects, current political gridlock has hindered efforts to create universal child care programs and policies. In the absence of large public investments in …
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The impacts of research on Philippine rice production
… cost framework, I measured the contributions of public investments in R&D, extension, production subsidy, and irrigation in reducing the cost of rice production in the Philippines. I used the shadow share as a measure of marginal return to public investments in determining the need for further …
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Institutional and fiscal policies for forest conservation
… export tariffs on agricultural commodities with public investments. Public investments are defined as investments that increase agricultural productivity. The model shows that export tariffs and public investments can be combined, such that the output level in the agricultural sector remains …
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Who benefits from investment in universities? : institutions, university spillovers, and firm performance
… welfare implications about the efficiency of public investments in universities when the benefits of such investments are offset by the institutional inefficiency of the state ownership.
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MEASURING BICYCLE AND PEDESTRIAN ACTIVITY IN SANTIAGO, CHILE
… it is difficult to measure the real benefits of public investments on health, travel time, and other relevant indicators, and to compare these modes to alternatives such as public transit or private automobile. For these reasons, this research aims to measure bicycle and pedestrian activity in …
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From Vacant to Valuable: Building Community Wealth through Brownfield Redevelopment in Legacy Industrial Cities
Recent federal investments in domestic manufacturing have renewed economic interest in legacy industrial cities across the United States. As these places attract new development, it is critical to safeguard against repeating the harms of the 20th-century exodus of industry and manufacturing …
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Essays on entrepreneurial strategy and performance
… some substantial policy implications about public investments in universities when the benefits of such investments are juxtaposed against localized institutional arrangements.
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Business incubators as an economic development strategy : a case study of Oakland's communications technology cluster
… Therefore, communities are pumping large sums of public dollars to support and sustain high tech business incubators. However, without a full understanding of how incubators impact local communities, it is difficult to justify these public investments. Moreover, without evaluating its strengths …
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Rezoning New York City : A case study of East Harlem
… resulted in significant city commitments to public investments in the neighborhood. Yet, these commitments are not guaranteed within a specific timeframe and are almost entirely the responsibility of the public sector to implement. While the ability of rezoning to produce a significant number …
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Shaping urban form without zoning: a case study of houston
… theoretical framework derived from economics and public policy theories for institutional analyses of land development controls. The dissertation uses cluster analysis integrating socioeconomic factors from census data to select three case study neighborhoods, and then applies GIS to analyze their …
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Natal qual é a sua cara?: análise do perfil edilício da avenida Eng. Roberto Freire (Natal/RN) à luz da acessibilidade
… accessible locations, and from the private and public investments and incentives to tourism that aim to insert this city into the globalized world. Although the intention of reconstituting part of the history of density increase on this avenue in a diachronical perspective was attempted within …
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The Financialization of a Cure: A Political Economy of Biomedical Innovation, Pricing, and Public Health
… point of exchange between drug manufacturers and public health systems. Instead, I took a historical view, using the case of sofosbuvir to trace the political- economic dynamics and organizational relations of power across the innovation process – from early stage science to deployment. Data from …
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Impact of commercial development on inner city revitalization : an analysis of projects in Boston
… they have something in common: significant public subsidy to fill the gap between the cost of the project and the value after completion. CDCs justify the public subsidy with the argument that commercial projects revitalize distressed neighborhoods, creating jobs for local residents, …
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A Humanist Perspective on Economic Policy: Ecuador's Economic Reforms and Industrial Policy, 2007-2017
… the expansion of human development —particularly public investment, macroeconomic and regulatory policies— were those that most markedly broke with the policy regime of Ecuador's Washington Consensus period (1982-2006). However, in the realm of industrial policy, the government notably fell short …
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The role of agents for change in the sustainable development of wave energy in the Highlands and Islands Region of Scotland
… the form of a complex dynamic between financial investments in the sector, national grid, national energy policy, and the technology itself. Financial investment in the wave energy sector was found to be limited by the national grid infrastructure and the slow rate of technology advancement. In …
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Do new student rentals affect other housing submarkets? Evidence from Champaign-Urbana
… rents. As enrollment skyrocketed, decades of public investments and regulatory decisions by the City of Champaign enabled the development of new, high-rise housing in Campustown. This included infrastructure upgrades that nullified the risk of flooding in the area, which lessened risk for …
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Essays On Policy Dynamics Under Political Frictions
… design and implementation of macroeconomic and public policies has an important political dimension. This dissertation, which lies at the intersection of macroeconomics and political economy, focuses on understanding the dynamic fiscal and regulatory policies in the context of political …
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