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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"economic rent"”.
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Modelling natural gas market for sub-Sahara African region: investment and regulatory approaches
… gas market in literature. Applying Supply-side Economic Solution through pragmaticism philosophical underpinning derived in the conduct of the research, a market model was attempted. This was by using comparative analysis of four major global natural gas markets to derive lessons for modelling …
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A theoretical and empirical investigation into the design and implementation of an appropriate tax regime: an evaluation of Nigeria's petroleum taxation arrangements.
… Informed by the literature reviewed, economic rent theory was adopted as a theoretical framework in the thesis. While other theories could have been applied as a framework, economic rent theory was deemed to be most appropriate because taxes levied on economic rent are not generally …
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Collecting rent : political culture and oil and gas fiscal policy in Alberta, Canada and Norway
… a significantly higher portion of available economic rent from oil and gas activities than Alberta. Edwards (1987) postulates that if we assume governments have similar economic objectives (e.g. to receive the highest possible levels of revenue from the exploitation of a depleting natural …
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What causes a cabinet to change its mind? the British farmer and the state 1818-2004
… from 1818 to 2004 cover profound social and economic changes in what was, for much of the period, the most powerful country in the world. Britain led the way in moving capital and labour out of agriculture and into newer industries, such as coal-mining, textiles and transportation. The …
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Mrs. Robinson revisited
… of supply, Joan Robinson in her book, The Economics of Imperfect Competition, digresses first on the concept of rent to a heterogeneous resource, and secondly on the four cost curves of an industry. This study re-examines these digressions and seeks to provide the student of economics with …
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The political economy of environmental technological change with a case study of the power sector in Vietnam
… context. Firstly, considering evolutionary economics approaches to understanding technological change, we argue that evolutionary micro-foundations lend themselves to an analysis of political economy processes. Moreover, it is a direct consequence of evolutionary microfoundations that …
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The political economy of oil in Nigeria: How oil's impact on rent distribution has contributed to Nigeria's sub-optimal economic performance
… largest oil producers in the world, however, its economic and developmental statistics have consistently ranked among the worst in the world. This paradox is widely believed to be a result of the natural resource curse. The natural resource curse is a phenomenon attributed to the inverse …
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Export taxes as a trade policy tool in Malawi: the case of timber products
… Such initiatives have the capacity to generate economic gains because as the country builds the productive capacities, there is employment creation and use of other domestically produced inputs or raw materials. In this respect, it is important that the pricing of timber or forestry products …
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Stanovení výše ekonomického nájemného bytového domu v Brně
Diplomová práce popisuje obecný pohled na problematiku nájemného a vybraný typ nemovité věci v podobě bytového domu nacházejícího se v Brně, včetně určení základních nákladových hodnot, na základě kterých bude stanoveno nákladové nájemné. V další fázi bude k nákladovému nájemnému přičten přiměřený …