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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"earmark"”.
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Economic Analysis of State Lotteries in the United States
… the thirty-eight states with lotteries, sixteen earmark lottery profits for primary and secondary education. Given the fungibility of money, economists have questioned the effectiveness of the earmarking policies. Using a panel data set of states with lotteries, we find that 60-80 cents out of an …
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The Cost of Earmarks
… including, federal-aid through the process of earmarking. The practice of earmarking has been around since the first congress, but hit its peak between 2003 and 2007. The earmarking process is controversial for several reasons; earmarking bypasses traditional merit procedures for distribution …
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Factors Determining Loan Repayment in Microfinance Institutions: The Case of Dar Es Salaam Clients
… risk check list analysis which will correctly earmark a possible loan defaulter. Borrowers Training on entrepreneurial skills and practice are equally important to increase the possible loan repayment.
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How the soul slips in: Virginia Woolf's (un)natural history of dogs
… are better understood. Animality is not an earmark of the “other,” rather it is more often revealed when compulsions of the State are at work on unstable human categories. Woolf uses animals (specifically dogs) because they are a natural proxy to human social structural functionalism. Dogs …
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Making an impact in public health through philanthrocapitalism : the PaCT Project and ImPaCT Commercial Ventures
… structured as a "Benefit" Corporation, will earmark some of its profit to help sustain the resource-intensive and expensive longitudinal cohort study.
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Effectiveness and acceptability of congestion pricing
… and beliefs of their constituents, and how to earmark revenues before implementing efficiency enhancing environmental policies.
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Political advertising in presidential elections and law making in the U.S. Congress
… as well as one special kind of legislation: earmark. Specifically, chapter 1 investigates the effects of political advertising in the 2000, 2004 and 2008 U.S. presidential elections. We integrate the decision of voter turnout and candidate choice in a discrete choice model, with candidate …