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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Service trade."”.
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What did you say? : the effect of language distance on international service trade.
Service trade is more heavily dependent on communication than commodity trade because its production and consumption occur simultaneously. "Linguistic distance," a measure of how closely the majority languages of two nations are related, is negatively correlated with the quality of communication …
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Exchange rate pessimism in Tanzanian macroeconomic policy
… experiencing, attention is focused on visible trade deficit because capital markets are almost non-existent, capital mobility is strictly controlled and service trade is underdeveloped. Economic theory recommends devaluation if quicker response is needed and the destabilizing effects of …
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Understanding world and South African trade in services
Services trade has become a significant component of world trade and has been given more academic profile since its inclusion in the Uruguay Round of GATT trade talks. However, the paucity of academic work means that services trade is still poorly understood and lacks significant statistical analysis. …
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Exploring the effectiveness of loop perforation for quality of service profiling
Many computations exhibit a trade off between execution time and quality of service. A video encoder, for example, can often encode frames more quickly if it is given the freedom to produce slightly lower quality video. A developer attempting to optimize such computations must navigate a complex …
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International Trade in a Competitive World: Empirical Evidence from the UK
This thesis aims to provide helpful insights into trade in goods and services. The first two chapters focus on the micro-level determinants of international trade in services in the UK: The aim of the first chapter is to investigate the determinants of trade in services in a gravity framework, …
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Restoration and Water Management in the Atchafalaya River Basin, Louisiana
… flow-ecology relationships to evaluate ecosystem service trade-offs and complementarities in the ARB to assess the potential impacts of water management decisions. Flow-ecology relationships were used to explore complementary and trade-off relationships among 12 ecosystem services and related …
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A pluralistic, socio-ecological approach to understand the long-term impact of mountain conservation: a counterfactual and place-based assessment of social, ecological and hydrological change in the Groot Winterhoek Mountains of the Cape Floristic Region
… do mountain protected areas have on ecosystem services over time and how does this influence relate to broader socio-economic and ecological drivers of landscape change? Aim and objectives: I use a pluralistic, socio-ecological framing to assess the impact of ~40 years of mountain protection, …
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Gains and Losses in Ecosystem Services: Trade-off and Efficiency Perspectives
Humans rely on nature for various ecosystem services to enhance their well-being. However, the gains in human well-being have been achieved at the losses in many ecosystem services. One of the key challenges in ecosystem service science is to determine how to manage ecosystems for multiple services …
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Public Service Labour Relations: Centralised Collective Bargaining and Social dialogue in the Public Service of South Africa(1997 to 2007)
… collective agreements between employers and trade unions. While bargaining councils were created for virtually every sector within the South African private sector, only one bargaining council exists for the public sector. This public sector bargaining council is known as the Public Service …