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Aspects and Importance of Digital Media in Pakistan
Abdur Raheem, Syed; Akber, Fahad; Hashmi, Umair - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Digital Media has gained importance over the years, around the world. It has created impact in Pakistan too. This paper draws comparison in usage and impact of Digital Media in developed worlds with Pakistan and identifies the flaws, the potential and scope of digital media in Pakistan. Pakistan...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259955
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Centralization of Decentralized Governance - Evidence from West Bengal Panchayat
Misra, Jaydev - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Democratic decentralization in the state of West Bengal, of its own, are not producing systems that are more effective or more accountable to local needs and interests. The formal mechanisms matter less than the informal institutions that underpin local political economies. And the understanding...
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Global e-commerce and african participation:a critical assessment
Nwaobi, Godwin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Indeed, it has been asserted that the most fundamental resource in the modern economy is knowledge while the most important process of economic development is learning. Therefore, e-commerce is an important contributor to the learning process which shapes economic performance. In fact, it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011107828
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Condorcet's principle and the strong no-show paradoxes
Duddy, Conal - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
We consider two no-show paradoxes, in which a voter obtains a preferable outcome by abstaining from a vote. One arises when the casting of a ballot that ranks a candidate in first causes that candidate to lose the election. The other arises when a ballot that ranks a candidate in last causes...
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The impact of immigration on the greek labor market
Chletsos, Michael; Roupakias, Stelios - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
participation rises due to immigration …
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Daily life explorers, social networks and landscape policies
Salustri, Andrea - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
technological achievements, enhancing and combining the new opportunities for participation offered by the European Landscape … interested citizens and firms. More participation at political and at social level might strengthen the sense of community …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259166
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Can the Poor Participate in Payments for Environmental Services?: Lessons from the Silvopastoral Project in Nicaragua
Pagiola, Stefano; Rios, Ana R.; Arcenas, Agustin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
. Moreover, their participation was not limited to the simpler, least expensive options. Extremely poor households had a somewhat … greater obstacles to the participation of poorer households than household-specific constraints. …
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¿Qué influye en la decisión individual de participar? Un enfoque microeconómico del capital social para el caso de las organizaciones de la Sociedad Civil en Chile
Salazar, César A.; Jaime, Mónica M. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
In defining the guidelines of central governments, regional and local, the participation of civil society has been … participation of people and strengthening civil organizations. To face this challenge it should study the process of formation of … civil organizations. The objective of this work is to study the problem of participation from a microeconomic perspective …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005616840
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Country Concepts and the Rational Actor Trap - Limitations to Strategic Management of International NGOs
Kohnert, Dirk - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004
Growing criticism of inefficient development aid demanded new planning instruments of donors, including international NGOs (INGOs). A reorientation from isolated project-planning towards holistic country concepts and the increasing rationality of a result-orientated planning process were seen as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005787104
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On the Value of Participation: Endogenous Emergence of Social Norms in a Three-Player Ultimatum Game
Grimalda, Gianluca; Kar, Anirban; Proto, Eugenio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
democratic rule. We speculate that ‘institutions’ allowing more participation in the process of collective choice lead to more …
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