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Industrial conflict management in a developing country
… relations and industrial conflict within a developing African country. A major case study was followed. The research covers the ten year period 1982 - 1992 and follows the interaction and conflict between management Representative of employers and trade union leaders in Swaziland's major …
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Estimating the demand for money in a developing country
In this paper, the demand for real money, M3, is estimated for South Africa for the period 1965 to 2003. The paper employs an Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) model using a two equation technique that includes cointegration and an error-correction model (ECM). The cointegration model estimates …
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Outcome after palliative cardiac surgery in a developing country
The outcome of 121 children who underwent palliative cardiac surgery at the Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital over a 5 year period, 1980 1984, was retrospectively examined. 79 children had systemic artery to pulmonary artery shunt operations (SPS), 40 had pulmonary artery bands (PAB) and 2 …
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Health Planning in a Developing Country - the Case of Korea
The review of Korea's general health conditions indicates that the health needs of a vast majority of the rural population remain unmet. Existing health policies and governmental infrastructure are ineffective. It is imperative, therefore, that Korea develop a national health program based on an …
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Management styles and managers attitudes towards IT: A developing country context.
… research explores the management styles within a developing country context and the managers' attitudes towards IT. In particular, relationships between certain demographic characteristics and managers' attitudes towards IT are explored. Finally, association between management styles and managers' …
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Economic evaluation of health care : cautions for the developing country context
… dimensions. On the practical dimension: The developing country context differs from the wealthier country context in a number of ways. This paper considers the differences in resource constraints and the differences in health priorities and asks to what extent the methodology is able to …
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Social norms, markets and land use in a developing country context
This dissertation presents three studies related to the processes of agricultural technology adoption, the development of land markets in the presence of social norms, and smallholder land use amid price uncertainty. The analysis presented in this dissertation focuses on two countries: Malawi and …
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Regional unconditional transfers: the case of riverside regions in a developing country
Las comunidades desfavorecidas de todo el mundo han sido a menudo el foco de programas gubernamentales destinados a mejorar la calidad de vida y fomentar el desarrollo económico. La descentralización se ha convertido en una estrategia central en este esfuerzo, con el objetivo de mejorar la …
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Developing continuing education curricula in a developing country: acknowledging culture and context
… aim of this study was to examine the process of developing continuing education curricula in a developing country. The following foreshadowed issues that provided direction for the study are drawn from personal knowledge and experience obtained working in the health sector in less developed …
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IS/IT outsourcing : issues, evidence, and lessons from Kuwait - a developing country
… phenomenon in the different sectors of a developing country. The study is empirically based and provides a logical extension to earlier research studies/endeavours in the field of IS/IT outsourcing. Kuwait has been used as an example of a developing country where the data collection for …
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Commercial bank performance in a developing country : a case study of Nigeria
… are essentially typical of banks operating in developing economies, particularly those of Africa. This study represents a research effort aimed at contributing to the literature on the determinants of commercial bank performance in general, and in developing economies in articular. The study …
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Export Tax in Indonesia: A Study of Taxation in A Developing Country
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-14T06:06:03Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7803975.pdf: 10595004 bytes, checksum: 40aebbb4d99957c683922bd49b103bf4 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1977
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Trade in healthcare services by a developing country: the case of Botswana
… in Botswana in the context of a middle income developing country that endeavours to harness benefits from trade in health services. It finds that the health sector is still dominated by public sector provision amidst a gradually developing private sector that is mainly supported by domestic …
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Developing Country Business Cycles: Characterizing the Cycle and Investigating the Output Persistence Problem
… participants. This is of particular concern in developing countries where, in the absence of full risk sharing mechanisms, the economic and social costs of swings in the business cycle are very high. Previous analyses of developing country stylised facts have tended to feature only small …
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Corporate social responsibility practices in a developing country: Empirical evidence from Sri Lanka
… and disclosure practices, particularly from a developing country perspective. The study captures deeply rooted sociocultural influences affecting the CSR practice by managers of Sri Lankan companies, and makes a comparison with findings from those of a developed country, New Zealand. It also …
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Impact of digital games on early reading skills in a developing country context
… Amongst others, some of the pressing issues the developing countries face are lower literacy rates, education quality and access. Pakistan comes under the list of countries with appalling literacy rates, where 22.6 million children are out of school and have no access to education at all. Recent …
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National innovation system building in a developing country context : the case of Turkey
… innovation system construction processes in a developing country context, Turkey. Cognizant of the strong emphasis in contemporary literature on crucial role of regional agglomeration processes in stimulating innovation and competitive advantage and the unique context and challenges to …
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VAT Reform in a Developing Country. A CGE Model with an Informal Sector
I develop a computable general equilibrium model that quantifies the redistributive effects and the efficiency gains of broadening the base of the Value Added Tax (VAT) by removing the zero-rating of food. I incorporate an informal retail sector in the supply of goods with two distinctive features: …
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A Study of Students' Conceptions of Networked Learning in a Developing Country Setting
… ‘Western’ models, are increasingly prominent in developing countries; yet, to date, very little research has explored campus-based students’ conceptions or experiences of those initiatives. This study investigates students’ conceptions of networked learning in a particular developing country …
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