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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Regional Competition"”.
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Developing a regional competition regulatory framework in the Southern African Development Community (SADC)
… benefits and challenges of developing a regional competition regulatory framework in SADC. Further, the study seeks to identify important lessons from the EU and COMESA that are crucial for the pursuance of a regional competition regulatory framework.
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Soviet-Chinese competition in the Third World: A case study of the Middle East, 1971-1985
This is a study of Soviet-Chinese competition in the Third World with the Middle Eastern region during 1971-85 as a case. Through a detailed analysis of their interactions in the region, this study aims primarily to discover patterns of their regional competition, sort out factors affecting the …
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Three Essays on Regional Economics
… The model aims to capture the tension between regional competition and scale economies presented in a region where many firms produce the same (or related) good(s). Opportunistic behavior can lead clustering firms to suboptimal investment in human capital and scale economies eventually …
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Fitness, Flexibility, and Suspension: An Aquatics Facility on Washington, D.C.'s Southwest Waterfront
… that inhabits it. This proposal for a regional competition, training and recreational aquatics facility demonstrates ideas of physical fitness through an exploration of muscles, cables, tension, joints, and bones. The building is part of a larger urban strategy for redeveloping the …
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Niche Croppind and the Rural Landscape in Wise, Dickenson, Scott, and Russell County Virginia
… region is used to develop the ideas of limited regional competition, and product diversity for niche cropping enterprises. These ideas create an identity for the region that reflects upon the farms and the products they produce. This thesis is intended to be a tool for county extension agents …
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Evolution of water supply mechanisms to reflect changing values: a case study of the Massachusetts water management program
… have brought about localized demand and regional competition for water resources in parts of the eastern United States. Thus, some states have faced critical decisions concerning how to best manage their available water supplies. As fundamental public values have changed over time, public …
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Challenges of indigenous employment in the private logistics sector in developing economies: an in-depth study of the Sultanate of Oman.
… and support greater Omanisation. Given intense regional competition, maritime logistics should be prioritised to leverage Oman's strategic location. Study Two involved a survey, with revised themes and framework, excluding employment and Omanisation data because of sufficient findings in Study …
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South Africa's headquarter company regime: a gateway barred from within
… of s9I in the context of a developing, but regionally dominant South Africa. It finds that the passive intermediary holding company activities in fact incentivised by s9I are not directly beneficial to South Africa. While the active functions associated with true headquarter companies would …
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Connective development : recognizing the networked city in forming a progressive urban economic development strategy
… Increasingly today, connectivity occurs both regionally (in innovation hubs and their satellite cities) and meta-regionally (between cities not geographically proximate), and few formal policy frameworks exist to support these expanded geographic networks. Lead institutional and corporate …
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Considerations Of A Tuition Reset At Small, Non-Selective Liberal Arts Colleges
… the data that the schools gathered about their regional competition often surprised them, revealing that they were not losing students to other regional private institutions, but to state schools with lower price points. In addition, each school integrated the reset into a larger strategy of …
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Deporte, alimentación y salud: estudio intergeneracional sobre la construcción del cuerpo
… deporte de intensidad media -competición regional-, deporte de alta intensidad -competición nacional y/o internacional-. 3. El último criterio ha sido el género, recogiendo tanto mujeres como hombres. Las principales conclusiones presentan el desarrollo procesual que siguen los individuos …
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Economic integration of the East African community
… gains for the firm from protection of the regional market due to higher tariffs in an FTA outweighs the forgone gains in consumer surplus and tariff revenue due to lower tariffs in a CU. On the other hand, the larger partner will prefer a CU over an FTA since its population size will lead …
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Essays on Federalism and Local Finance in China
… geographic distribution of fiscal resources on regional economic growth under fiscal decentralization policy in the context of China's experience, using panel data for 28 provinces over the period 1987–2010. In the recent past, the structure of decentralized government in China has undergone two …