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Republic of Mozambique; Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper: Annual Progress Report: Review of the Economic and Social Plan for 2007

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2008

This Annual Progress Report reviews the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper and Economic and Social Plan for 2007 for Mozambique. The report presents the new simplified structure adopted in the Review of the First Half of 2007. In the international context, the evolution of the international...

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Supply chain relationships, supplier support programmes and stimulating investment: evidence from the Armenian dairy sector

Dries, Liesbeth; Gorton, Matthew; Urutyan, Vardan; … - In: Supply Chain Management: An International Journal 19 (2014) 1, pp. 98-107

identification of potential determinants of supply chain relationships and support programmes is based on literature on supply chain … management and transaction cost economics. Findings – Positive determinants of supplier support programmes are the degree of … ownership of the buyer. Support programmes are less likely to be offered in very competitive environments. Support measures such …

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Leveraging Employee Development Planning (EDP) for performance advantage

Wise, Jayne - In: Industrial and Commercial Training 46 (2014) 4, pp. 194-200

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the changes, including those around Employee Development Planning (EDP) made by training company Options 2, to modernise performance appraisals, optimise employee performance, and enable the company to expand its skills base in order to meet...

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Ethnic minority businesses and targeted assistance programs in the US and the UK : A comparison and implications

C. Sonfield, Matthew - In: Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development 21 (2014) 2, pp. 199-211

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to focus on the current status and the development of ethnic minority businesses in the USA and in the UK. Comparing the two countries’ past, current, and likely future situations and recognizing that each situation offers some lessons to the other,...

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The impact of participation in European joint research projects on knowledge creation and economic growth

Cagno, Daniela; Fabrizi, Andrea; Meliciani, Valentina - In: The Journal of Technology Transfer 39 (2014) 6, pp. 836-858

economic growth. We use scientific links in FP programmes to weight foreign R&D in order to construct two different measures of …

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Living â€œup in the airâ€: Meeting the frequent flyer passenger

Castillo-Manzano, José I.; López-Valpuesta, Lourdes - In: Journal of Air Transport Management 40 (2014) C, pp. 48-55

This paper uses a large database of approximately 37,000 passengers and three different estimates to analyse the characteristics of the frequent flyer and the differences between frequent flyers and occasional flyers. The results show that frequent flyers are middle-aged men with a high level of...

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Assessing the impact of different nominal anchors on the credibility of stabilisation programmes

Prazmowski, Peter A.; Sánchez-Fung, José R. - In: Journal of Applied Economics XVII (2014) November, pp. 353-372

The paper compares the impact of announcing exchange rate-based versus money-based stabilisation programmes in a time …-based programmes is more credible, in terms of reducing inflation inertia, than the outcome associated with money-based programmes. The …

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Revisiting Sustainable Livelihoods: Insights from Implementation Studies in India

Patnaik, Srilata; Prasad, C. Shambu - In: Vision 18 (2014) 4, pp. 353-358

times. This article situates current mission based livelihood programmes in India within the larger context of livelihoods …

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Impactos del programa Juntos sobre el empoderamiento de la mujer.

Alcazar-Valdivia, Lorena; Espinoza, Karen - Grupo de Análisis para el Desarrollo (GRADE) - 2014

Este estudio apunta a identificar el impacto de Programa Nacional de Apoyo Directo a los Más Pobres (Juntos) en el bienestar de las madres beneficiarias, específicamente en el proceso de empoderamiento que puede desarrollarse a raíz de las características que el programa tiene. Para ello, se...

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Impact of trade openness on economic growth in a small, open, and developing economy: new instrumental variables for trade openness

Akayleh, Fayq Al - In: International Journal of Sustainable Economy 6 (2014) 2, pp. 142-170

performance is very weakly explained by trade policy; 4) economic reform programmes under the supervision of IMF and World Bank …

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