Search Results - subject:"Technology Development"

Indigenous Knowledge : The East Africa-South Asia Learning Exchange - An Example of South-South Cooperation

Economics Research, World Bank Group; World Bank - 2003

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The Economics of African Indigenous Knowledge

Economics Research, World Bank Group; World Bank - 2003

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010644363

Impact Evaluation of Social Programs : A Policy Perspective

Blomquist, John - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2003

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010645437

East Africa-South Asia : Learning and Exchanging Indigenous Knowledge

Mohan, P.C. - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2003

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010645897

East Africa-South Asia : Learning and Exchanging Indigenous Knowledge

Mohan, P.C. - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2003

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010657313

Interactions of energy technology development and new energy exploitation with water technology development in China

Liang, Sai; Zhang, Tianzhu - In: Energy 36 (2011) 12, pp. 6960-6966

Interactions of energy policies with water technology development in China are investigated using a hybrid input …-output model and scenario analysis. The implementation of energy policies and water technology development can produce co …-benefits for each other. Water saving potential of energy technology development is much larger than that of new energy …

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The Design of Durable Goods

Koenigsberg, Oded; Kohli, Rajeev; Montoya, Ricardo - In: Marketing Science 30 (2011) 1, pp. 111-122

The use of a durable good is limited by both its physical life and usable life. For example, an electric-car battery can last for five years (physical life) or 100,000 miles (usable life), whichever comes first. We propose a framework for examining how a profit-maximizing firm might choose the...

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Technology development and application of solar energy in desalination: MEDRC contribution

Ghaffour, N.; Reddy, V.K.; Abu-Arabi, M. - In: Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 15 (2011) 9, pp. 4410-4415

Desalination has become one of the sources for water supply in several countries especially in the Middle East and North Africa region. There is a great potential to develop solar desalination technologies especially in this region where solar source is abundantly available. The success in...

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How was the Heisei depression in Japan caused?

Matsumoto, Yasumi - In: Global Business and Economics Review 13 (2011) 1, pp. 71-83

Japan has been suffering from the Heisei depression since 1991. Instability of the world financial system caused by the abandonment of conversion monetary system was accelerated by huge issue of speculative derivatives, which the US Government fully utilised to finance deficits. Her bitter...

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Analysing Competitiveness of the Hungarian Agro-Food Chains

Feher, Istvan; Papp, Zsolt - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2002

Based on the Policy Analysis Matrix (PAM) approach this paper provides an assessment of the competitive position of the Hungarian agro-food industry in view of EU integration. The situation in the food processing sector is assessed with the use of actual cost data from representative Hungarian...

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