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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"non-OECD"”.
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Advancing the Frontier of Extended Producer Responsibility: The management of waste electrical and electronic equipment in non-OECD countries
… equipment (WEEE) has become a salient issue in non-OECD countries. With a growing awareness about serious damages to the environment and human health from a lack of safe treatment and recycling of WEEE, there has been a search for policy responses in several of these countries. This research …
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The determinants and impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) in Kenya and Tanzania: an OECD and non-OECD perspective 1996-2016
… levels by grouping the home countries into OECD and non-OECD countries between and within Kenya and Tanzania. The study employed quantitative methods and the findings of this thesis reveal for the determinants that imports, infrastructure development and institutional factors are important …
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The determinants and impact of inward oil and gas FDI in Nigeria
… models, which include, the country as a whole, OECD group and non-OECD group using dynamic panel data analysis techniques proposed by Blundell and Bond (1998) known in methodology literature as sys-GMM (system Generalized-Method-of-Moment). The study’s empirical evidence provides statistical …
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Beyond GNP: Economic Freedom as a Determinant of Basic Human Needs.
… differences between economic freedom effects in OECD nations and non-OECD nations are revealed. The Economic Freedom Index has both theoretical and empirical advantages over previous measures of wealth and economic freedom, allowing human rights scholars to test specific economic policy decisions …
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Canada's Contribution to Neglected Tropical Disease Research: A Co-authorship Network Analysis
… co-authorship activity is largely with OECD countries (United States, United Kingdom and France) and some non-OECD countries (Brazil, Iran, and Peru). The core of Canada’s NTD research network includes a tightly connected group of OECD countries and two African countries (Uganda and …
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Synergetic Effects of Democracy and Economic Development on Income Inequality and the Role of Relative Political Capacity
… By dissecting distinct sub-samples of OECD and non-OECD countries, nuanced insights surface. Employing robust methodologies such as ordinary least squares regressions and fixed effects analysis, I argue that targeted policies addressing inequality can not only foster inclusive economic …
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Food Insecurity and Health of International Students
… of participants were characterized as being non-OECD member countries (n=75,80%), with noted differences in food security by students from non-OECD and OECD countries. No differences in HAFSS were observed between undergraduate and graduate students (p=.344). Significant relationships between …
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Does Cultural Heterogeneity Lead to Lower Levels of Regime Respect for Basic Human Rights?
… homogeneous countries. Using a data set of 106 non-OECD countries for the years 1983 and 1993, I employ bivariate, linear multivariate regression, and causal modeling techniques to test whether higher levels of ethnolinguistic and religious diversity are associated with less regime respect for …
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Foreign direct investment and economic growth in Africa
… of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), non-OECD emerging markets and intra-African economies, are driven by market-seeking, natural resource-seeking and efficiency-seeking motivations into host African countries. Evidence suggests that market-seeking and efficiency-seeking FDI are …
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Three Essays on Public Policy: Physician Labor Supply, Food Insecurity, and Income Inequality
… overall. When separating trade partners into OECD and non‐OECD countries, our results show that net exports to OECD countries increase inequality, whereas net exports to non-OECD countries insignificantly decrease inequality. Moreover, we provide evidence that domestic reforms, particularly …
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Risk measurement and management of insurance companies
… cycle has been identified in a number of OECD and non-OECD countries and highlights the different stages and maturity of the insurance market. A number of reasons for the presence of this cycle is presented and evaluated in contrast with the reasons behind the underwriting cycle in other …
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Progress or Decline: International Political Economy and Basic Human Rights
… ways. A further delineation is made between OECD and non-OECD countries. The primary international focus is on the effects of global integration and the end of the Cold War. Domestic explanations that are connected with globalization include economic freedom, income inequality and …
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Three Essays on Financial and Trade Integration
… should facilitate FDI flows and restrict non-productive short-term equity or debt flows in order to maintain macroeconomic stability and lower the probability of a crisis.;The second essay examines the determinants of convergence in the marginal product of capital. The essays derives an …
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Essays on infrastructure, trade, and politics in Developing Countries
… foreign investment? A literature focusing on the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention claims that these laws direct international business toward less corrupt destination countries, with the effect of diverting business away from developing countries. I rebut this claim, using three empirical tests: (i) a …