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Showing 1 to 20 of 54 for “"local markets"”.
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Local Market Mechanisms: how Local Markets can shape the Energy Transition
… has increasingly focused on the concept of markets in all their facets. This thesis seeks to answer the following questions: How can markets, often considered abstract and accessible only to high-level users, be integrated for end-users? How can market mechanisms be leveraged across various …
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Those who don't know : modernity, risk, and transition in Hanoi's local markets
… program (known as "doi moi") on the local food and market system in Hanoi. Doi moi policies, which began in the late 1980s, have instituted major changes in both the national system of agricultural production and in Hanoi's local system of marketplaces. The doi moi reforms have …
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Delivering telecommunications services in local markets : a case study outlining implementation challenges
… evolved in the last few decades. From local organizations serving local customers with a portfolio of products and services adapted and dedicated to the specificities of each local market, firms modified their organization structure to better follow their customers internationally and …
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Commercial bank behavior in local markets : theory and evidence from New England
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1981.
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The Causes and Effects of Commercial Bank Participation in the Federal Home Loan Bank System
… impact of the FHLBs on community bank members, local consumers, and local markets. Results suggest that commercial bank liquidity is enhanced by and managed with the use of System advances, and investments in loans and mortgage-related assets increase with FHLB participation, particularly by …
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Distressed Sales and Housing Prices: a Metro and Regional Analysis
… research has been primarily focused on specific, local markets. This thesis expands on the literature, featuring housing and macro data for 127 metropolitan areas. This thesis constructs hypotheses on the relationships between distressed sales and foreclosures in order to structure potential …
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The Effects of high Fuel Prices to The Operation of Public Transport in Dar-Es-Salaam
… of fuel prices increase on international and local markets. The study findings show that, the mode of employment of drivers in relation to fuel prices increase affects negatively the behaviour of drivers with consequent results in bad provision of service. The study recommends abolition of the …
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Reducing inventory and order delivery time in an internal extended value chain
… by ABB to provide an established presence in local markets. In an effort to consolidate and align the Business Area's materials resources and reduce internal competition between similar factories, PTMV assigned specific products to specific factories on a regional basis. As a result, factories …
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Chinese iron and steel industry in transition : toward market mechanisms and economic efficiency
… government bureaucracy to the provincial and local level and movement within enterprises towards greater reliance on the market mechanism and away from government planning. The latter movement has led to the development of market mechanisms in Chinese industry, but the bureaucratic …
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Chinese iron and steel industry in transition : toward market mechanisms and economic efficiency
… government bureaucracy to the provincial and local level and movement within enterprises towards greater reliance on the market mechanism and away from government planning. The latter movement has led to the development of market mechanisms in Chinese industry, but the bureaucratic …
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Design of a bagasse charcoal briquette-making device for use in Haiti
… describes the development of an affordable, locally manufacturable, briquette-making device that produces higher quality charcoal than hand-formed briquettes. The device is intended for small-scale briquette production in rural villages to supply charcoal to local markets. Since little is …
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“Mexico, Public Policy and Obesity in a Global Context”
… food corporations; and 7) incentivize local markets by buying locally and supporting agricultural development.</p>
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Scotts of Greenock: shipbuilders and engineers, 1820-1920; a family enterprise
… to project British shipbuilding from purely local significance to world leadership between the late eighteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century. The roots of modern British shipbuilding lie in the craft industry based on wood and sail, one dominated by small scale family and …
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Development of international supply chain strategies to support global sourcing and manufacturing
… cheaper resources and they can be close to the local market, so that they can quickly react to the needs of local markets. However, there are risks involved in global expansion. Different countries have different cultures and environments. Political relationships between the countries and global …
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Imifino yasendle, imifino isiZulu : the ethnobotany, historical ecology and nutrition of traditional vegetables in KwaZulu-Natal
… know only a core group of 4-6 species which are locally available and are used frequently within the households. When seasonally available, these plants are harvested by women or children and occasionally sold in local markets. There also is a scattered body of knowledge of lesser known species …
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Information technology outsourcing in emerging markets
… successful IT outsourcing business in emerging markets cannot be achieved simply by replicating previous experiences in well developed countries, as IT outsourcing is greatly influenced by the cultural factors and the macro environment of the local markets. This thesis discusses the factors …
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A global perspective of the wine supply chain : the case of Argentinean wineries and the U.S. market
… and services. In a new, global world, targeting local markets does not seem to be enough for long-term company survival. Good supply chain management and design is becoming a key factor for resource optimization, overall user experience enhancement and to achieve a competitive strategic advantage …
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Institutional innovations to reduce transaction costs and risks between smallholder farmers and traders in rural markets in Ghana
… Additionally, commissioners (lead boys) in the local markets of Ghana were discovered to be a source of high transaction costs and risks. Finally, price fluctuation was discovered as a major marketing problem in all the data collection methods used.
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Fishes of the genus Lutianus off the East African coast and Part 2: Notes on the biology of the Lutjanids of the East African coast
… the very small L. ehrenbergi) pass through the local markets and are considered good eating, and seven are important food fishes. Economically the genus ranks as one of the three most important groups of bottom Telcosts; the others being the Epinephelids and the genus Lethrinus.
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