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A Flexible Inventory Model for MSW Recycling

Louis, Garrick; Shih, Jhih-Shyang - 2002

Most of the United States have laws mandating the recycling of municipal solid waste (MSW). In order to comply, municipalities recycle quotas of materials, without regard to fluctuating prices. An inventory system is proposed that allows municipalities to be sensitive to materials prices as they...

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Economic perspectives on the siting of a municipal solid waste facility

Kim, Hyuncheol - 2003

LULU (Locally Unwanted Land Use) and NIMBY (Never In My Back Yard) are often cited as two major hurdles to overcome for successful siting of a noxious facility. Among various types of waste in Korea, food waste has been posing a serious problem for its high rate of moisture and salt component...

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Levels of Farm Sector Productivity: An International Comparison.

Ball, V. Eldon; Bureau, Jean-Christophe; Butault, … - 2001

United States at1.689. Ireland had the lowest relative productivity at 0.759.By 1993, the range of levels of productivity had … narrowed significantly,from 0.709 for Ireland to 1.392 forthe Netherlands. Further evidence of convergence can be seenin the …

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Financing the Celtic Tigress: Venturing Financing and Informal Investment in Ireland

O'Gorman, Colm; Terjesen, Siri A. - 2006

This study explores gender differences in entrepreneurship and informal investment in Ireland, a country with one of … the lowest rates of female entrepreneurship in the developed world. Females in Ireland are less likely than males to be …

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Could the Irish Miracle Be Repeated in Hungary?

Acs, Zoltan J.; O'Gorman, Colm; Szerb, Laszlo; … - 2007

significant differences in entrepreneurial activity between Ireland and Hungary in both the type of people starting businesses and … Ireland and Hungary (Reynolds, et al 2005). We expect that countries will benefit from FDI spillovers when there is a strong … between Ireland and Hungary in terms of (i) levels of opportunity-based entrepreneurial activity, (ii) the entrepreneurial …

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Foreign Direst Investment and Indigenous Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Wales and Ireland

Terjesen, Siri A.; Acs, Zoltan - 2007

entrepreneurial activity varies by human capital and cultural context in Ireland and Wales. …

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Evolving mobile communication practices of Irish teenagers

Cawley, Anthony; Hynes, Deirdre - 2010

Full-text of this article is not available in this e-prints service. This article was originally published following peer-review in Aslib Proceedings, published by and copyright Emerald.

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Evidence on Irish financial directors' views about dividends

Burton, Bruce; Power, David; McCluskey, Thomas - 2007

as Ireland by examining views regarding the determinants of payout levels, the role of taxation and the relevance of …

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"Effects of the growth of foreign ownership of, and penetration into, UK, Belgian, and Irish economic sectors, 1978-1996"

Breverton, T.D. - 1997

EU trade policy operates in a framework which has tended to ignore governmental assistance to non-domestic multinational operations setting up/expanding in EU countries. At the same time, support for indigenous industries is illegal except in extreme, agreed circumstances. This differential...

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"The Real Costs of Japanese Foreign Direct Investment to the European Union - With Specific Reference to the UK, Belgium and Eire"

Breverton, T.D. - 1995

In late May 1995, an OECD Conference is scheduled specifically to discuss Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), which consists of building greenfield sites, acquisitions, or joint ventures). FDI rose four-fold between 1985 and 1993, twice as fast as world trade, but there are very few rules in...

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