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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"industry growth"”.
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Minigrids for electrification : policies to promote industry growth
The International Energy Agency estimates $331 billion dollars will be invested over the next 12 years to provide energy access to the 1.1 billion people who currently lack access to reliable electricity service. Of the $331 billion, the IEA estimates that 34% of this capital will be directed …
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Assessing Potential Industry Growth for Economic Development in Oakland, CA
… advance, particularly in high wage, high growth careers. Career ladders combine different statistics on the demographics of a population with statistics about the area’s economic vitality and potential. This combination helps to identify the potential to strengthen an area’s economy and …
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China's Paper Industry: Growth and Environmental Policy during Economic Reform
… the performance of China's pulp and paper industry under environmental regulations, and reflects on the implementation of the regulations, and especially on market-based instruments. The dissertation includes two empirical chapters: one uses a frontier production function model to examine …
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Economic Significance of Selective Export Promotion on Poverty Reduction and Inter-Industry Growth of Ethiopia
… promotion policy on poverty reduction and inter-industry growth of Ethiopia. The study was conducted in four steps. The first and the second steps involved simulation scenarios. Scenario 1 simulated the change in the incidence of poverty when FDI capital was selectively introduced into non-coffee …
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Global terrestrial uranium supply and its policy implications : a probabilistic projection of future uranium costs
… resulting model encompasses three probabilistic industry growth scenarios, pessimistic, prudent, and optimistic, representative of confidence levels of s 85%, s 50%, and s 15%, respectively. The impacts of current domestic and international nuclear policies on industry growth (and subsequently …
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The changing competitive landscape of the smartphone industry
… rates around the world. Despite this general industry growth, the smartphone subsector has achieved significantly lower levels of global penetration. As a result, there is a large scope for growth and a significant opportunity for players in the sector to seize in the future. The most widely …
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High Performance Work Systems and Firm Performance: The Moderator Role of Industry and Organizational Characteristics
… (Burns & Stalker, 1994; Youndt et al., 1996). Industry growth and industry dynamism were chosen as industry level moderators while labour investment represents a firm level moderator. The data used in this study was collected from a national general manager and HR manager survey which was …
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The hotel industry cycle: developing an economic indicator system for the hotel industry
… an economic indicator system for the hotel industry in order to project the industry's growth and turning points. This study developed for the U.S. hotel industry a business cycle that would cover hotel activity as broadly as possible and one that would represent the magnitude of growth of …
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THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN INSTITUTIONS, FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENT, BANKING PERFORMANCE, PRIVATIZATION, AND GROWTH
… and private property rights on the banking industry, and (2) the effects of property rights, contracting rights and intellectual property rights concurrent to privatization of state owned enterprises on a wide range of industries. First, it uses a sample of 37 countries to assess the effects …
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On developing business architectures : a multi-framework evaluation of an early-stage enterprise
… limited resources during periods of accelerating industry growth and relatively high uncertainty. This thesis is an examination of an early-stage enterprise within the medical technology industry using multiple frameworks. In addition to the standard Lean Advancement Initiative (LAI) suite of …
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Strategic and financial factors in business failure, bankruptcy and reorganization
… bankruptcy, but they pursued more aggressive growth strategies. The firms were approximately equally divided between four groups based on firm sales growth or decline and industry growth or decline. The typical decline pattern observed was asset and debt growth followed by decline in …
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Effect of MOSFET threshold voltage variation on high-performance circuits
The driving force for the semiconductor industry growth has been the elegant scaling nature of CMOS technology. In future CMOS technology generations, supply and threshold voltages will have to continually scale to sustain performance increase, limit energy consumption, control power dissipation, …
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Mergers & acquisitions in the medical device industry : an exploration of factors influencing valuation
… valuing mergers and acquisitions in the device industry. This model was selected for its transportability across industry segments, ease of calculation, broad acceptance, and lack of detailed forecasting assumptions. This research seeks to: 1) explore the importance of 20 commonly cited factors …
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Viscosity modification of gum arabic as a means of enhancing marketability
… important relationship between gum demand, food- industry growth in the U.S.A., and gum price.
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Evaluating the Use of Modified Corn Distillers Grains as a Fish-meal Protein Replacement in Yellow Perch Perca flavescens
… fish meal (FM) as a primary feed ingredient. Industry growth, high demand and increasing cost of finite FM supplies create urgency to find alternative protein sources. Plant products having sufficient nutrient composition and no anti-nutritional factors offer a viable alternative to …
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State policy, liberalisation and the development of the Indian software industry
… policy in a developing country. The chosen industry - software - is of recent origin and of growing importance in many developing countries, for which it can present one of the best entry points into the information technology production complex. Yet this industry and, particularly, the role …
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Three essays in corporate finance
… endeavors and facilitate transforming their industry growth opportunities into firm value. In the second essay, we find robust evidence that banks headquartered in more religious areas take less risk and remain less vulnerable to financial crises. To reduce risk, these banks grow their assets …
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Essays on market dynamics, regulation and advertising.
… oligopoly model of advertising in the cigarette industry. With this estimated model, I evaluate the impact of the 1971 TV/Radio advertising ban on the cigarette industry. A puzzling fact about this ban is that, while industry advertising spending decreased sharply immediately following its …
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Environmental equity in southeast Louisiana: oil, people, policy, and the geography of industrial hazards
… wetland fringe stand at risk from the petroleum industry, both directly, through potential residential exposure, and indirectly, through potentially impacted hunting and fishing grounds. These results highlight the importance of using a fine grained localized environmental equity model. Historic …
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Systems Theoretic Accident Model and Process application : quality control in medical device manufacturing
The goal of medical device industry is to provide patients and healthcare professionals effective, reliable, safe and affordable products. However, due to the dynamic and competitive operation and business environment, most manufacturers did not always attain this goal. It is a challenge to balance …
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