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Trade finance as a barrier to SME internationalisation: special reference to African trade with China / Y. van Heerden
Van Heerden, Yvette - 2010
Africa. By overcoming the difficulties in obtaining trade finance, African SMEs will be able to expand into foreign markets …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009456199
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Trade unions and the informal economy in Zambia: Building strength or loosing ground?
Heidenreich, Georg; Heidenreich, Georg - 2007
The increasing casualisation of labour forces trade unions globally to deal with a growing number of unprotected and unrepresented workers in what is dubbed by the unions, even if critically, as the informal economy. This paper assesses the impact and further potential of a direct and indirect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009485581
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Studies on late Quaternary environmental dynamics (vegetation, biodiversity, climate, soils, fire and human impact) on Mt Kilimanjaro
Schüler, Lisa - 2013
Zur Rekonstruktion der jungquartären Landschaftsentwicklung am Kilimanjaro werden Sedimente aus Paläoböden am Mt Kilimanjaro untersucht, um die lokale und regionale Ökosystem-, Klima-, Feuerdynamik in einem größeren Rahmen zu verstehen. Desweiteren soll die Reaktion der Ökosysteme auf...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010353240
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The effect of farmland preservation programs on farmland prices.
Nickerson, C.J.; Lynch, L. - 2001
Government agencies in urbanizing areas are increasingly utilizing purchase and transfer of development rights programs to preserve farmland and protect local farm economies. This article tests the effect of development restrictions imposed by permanent easement sales on farmland sales prices,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009429460
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Simulating the Spatial Distribution of Population and Emissions to 2100
Asadoorian, Malcolm O. - 2005
Urbanization and economic development have important implications for many environmental processes including global … climate change. Although there is evidence that urbanization depends endogenously on economic variables, long-term forecasts …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009433211
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Effects of Heterogeneity in Residential Preferences on an Agent-Based Model of Urban Sprawl
Brown, Daniel G.; Robinson, Derek T. - 2006
"The ability of agent-based models (ABMs) to represent heterogeneity in the characteristics and behaviors of actors enables analyses about the implications of this heterogeneity for system behavior. The importance of heterogeneity in the specification of ABMs, however, creates new demands for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468374
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Industrial Restructuring and Urban Change in the Pittsburgh Region: Developmental, Ecological, and Socioeconomic Trade-offs
Haller, William - 2005
"This article traces the steel industry's restructuring during the 1980s and its consequences for older industrial regions tied historically to steel production. These regions contained large working class communities that declined because of deindustrialization and restructuring. This article...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468440
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The significance and performance of infrastructure in China
Newell, Graeme; Chau, K. W.; Wong, Siu Kei - 2009
The significant economic growth and urbanisation of China in recent years has seen increased importance given to infrastructure development in China; this includes airports, toll roads, communications, ports, power plants and water. The purpose of this paper is to assess the significance and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009482054
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Cointegration Analysis on the Relation between Urbanization and Economic Growth in China
LIU, Ai ying; YAO, Li fen; LI, Qing chen - 2011
empirical research on the relation between urbanization and GDP in China, and also implements a comparative analysis to the … relation between three industries and degree of urbanization, the related coeffecient is 0.97, 0.95, 0.97, 0.97. And the result … shows a long-term balance between these two factors, and the promoting effect to tertiary industry by urbanization is more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009442811