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Net private capital flows (Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), Portfolio Investment and private credit flows) to emerging market economies declined significantly after the 1997 Financial Crisis. In 2002, the world's net private capital flows to emerging markets declined to the lowest level in the...
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Covers conditions under which public-sector policies, programs, and projects succeed in enhancing the economic activities of poorer groups and micro-regions in developing countries. Topics include local economic development; small enterprises; various forms of collective action; labor and worker...
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In the process of fulfilling their functions and obligations, states often find themselves in a situation where their own financial resources are not sufficient to achieve the set goals and objectives.Under such conditions, in order to finance government expenditures and the formation of budget...
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The costs of import substitution (IS) as a strategy for industrialization, which was deemed synonymous with economic development by many development economists of the fifties and sixties, were shown to be substantial in the influential and nuanced studies of the seventies and eighties under the...
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by the U.S. Economic Development Administration, Georgia Tech’s Enterprise Innovation Institute launched an effort in … Innovator Assistance Pilot ProgramSM. At the heart of this pilot program is the desire to advance productivity, innovation, and …
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Growth launched its “Southern Innovation Initiative” noting that “The South’s competitiveness relies on establishing a … culture of innovation – the ability to continuously invent and bring high value products and processes to the global … marketplace. Technology is the primary tool for innovation.” Thus, the fundamental question for the 2006 policy research project …
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In the recent years we have observed a strong movement to provide alternatives for innovative economic development, to considerproblems relating to poverty and income generation. The study of the productive chain of fruits in the northern region of the state ofEspirito Santo, Brazil, seeks to...
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This paper focuses on the theme of women entrepreneurs, business and gender in two transitional economies, namely Nigeria and China. As the OECD Conferences on Women Entrepreneurs in Small and Medium Enterprises held in Paris in 1997 and 2000 pointed out, a situation where women are...
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This Feasibility Study is designed to form the base strategy document detailing operational guidelines for a proposed Alliance between Ipswich City Council's Water & Sewerage Services, and Aquatec-Maxcon Pty Ltd. The proposed entity name of the Alliance is Sunshine Water (Pty Ltd). The Project...
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can be effectively facilitated by following a theory based process similar to what is used in corporate practice. An … approach to managing such ventures is outlined, based on strategic marketing theory applied to a major project, the …
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