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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Resource endowment"”.
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Unravelling the dynamics of authoritarian strategies : a comparative study of Suharto’s new order in Indonesia and Jammeh’s rule in the Gambia
… this, I make two assumptions that state: 1. Low resource endowment leads to high repression, and 2. High resource endowment leads to low repression and high co-optation. To understand this phenomenon, I compared Yahya Jammeh (1994–2016) in the Gambia (a low resource authoritarian regime) and …
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An analysis of push and pull factors of capital flows in a regional trading bloc
… macro-economic, infrastructural, institutional, resource endowment and geographical related. These are modeled into econometric model of FDI and FPI. Several hypotheses on the possible determinants are then tested using panel regressions with random effects. The results indicate that SSA's FDI …
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GOVERNANCE FOR RESILIENCE IN RESOURCE-RICH DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: A CASE STUDY OF THE NIGER DELTA REGION OF NIGERIA
… economies requires extensive human and natural resource management strategies. The discovery of oil in commercial quantities in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria in the 1950s has brought with it both benefits and adverse consequences, with prevalent violence resulting in loss of lives and …
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States' Investment in Human Capital: Higher Education Funding Effort
… public services, a capacity influenced by state resource endowment, tax structure, and the ability and will of public officials to expand that capacity. Utilizing data from 2001 to 2009, the fixed effects method was employed for panel analysis of socioeconomic, higher education and budgetary …
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States' Investment in Human Capital: Higher Education Funding Effort
… public services, a capacity influenced by state resource endowment, tax structure, and the ability and will of public officials to expand that capacity. Utilizing data from 2001 to 2009, the fixed effects method was employed for panel analysis of socioeconomic, higher education and budgetary …
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Hardheaded & Softhearted: An optimal oil depletion policy for economic sustainability in Saudi Arabia
The literature focusing on the resource-curse commonly characterize oil-rich economies as weak and fragile. These literatures encourage diversification ‘away’ from oil in order to develop the economies, however, they often overlook the path for development.<br/><br/>In contrast to this broad aim, …
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Fundamental Variables in the Analysis of Economic Growth in Latin America
… explained by British colonial rule and colonial resource endowments. There is also no evidence that current institutions reflect early ones (there is weak correlation between early and current institutions). Chapter 4 takes up this challenge by examining how institutions have evolved since …
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Economic Diversification and Development in Resource-dependent Economies: Lessons from Chile and Malaysia
… over-reliant on the extraction of non-renewable resources. The objective of this thesis is particularly timely given the current context of commodity price bust, which has revealed the economic vulnerability of several commodity-dependent countries. Economic diversification has consequently been …
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Accumulation model processes of human suborbital space transportation industry emergence
… and private-sectors, collect and accumulate resources in three major social functions. Previous research defined the model state-of-the-art at a high level of abstraction, identifying the three main components (industry infrastructure elements), depicted as separate boxes with arrows between …
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Household and community effects of contract farming after the fast track land reform programme: a case study of Mazowe tobacco farmers
… followed when negotiating the use of productive resources to participate and generate income from contract farming. The study further tracks how this income was used and with what effect to the household and community. A case study using a mixed method approach was used with the qualitative …
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Influences of customary and statutory governance on sustainable use and livelihoods: The case of baobab, Chimanimani District, Zimbabwe
… debate on governance approaches for natural resource management. To a large extent, this is in response to a growing voice articulating the need to integrate traditional institutions and customary practices into a more contemporary form of governance for Africa’s democratic and socio-economic …