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International oil and gas exploration and development: 1991
2008
This report starts where the previous quarterly publication ended. This first publication of a new annual series contains most of the same data as the quarterly report, plus some new material, through 1991. It also presents historical data covering a longer period of time than the previous...
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Effect of market structure on international coal trade
Kolstad, C.D.; Abbey, D.S. - 2009
examine monopoly (South Africa) and duopoly (South Africa, Australia) with a competitive fringe (US, Canada, Poland, China and …
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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 … market (which is the focus of this study). China Construction Bank (Johannesburg branch), through their association with Rand-Asia … commodity finance is that these SMEs, together with China Construction Bank (Jhb) and Rand-Asia Trade Finance have to mitigate …
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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...
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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...
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A Network Perspective on Agricultural Watershed Governance: The Case of the Local Agri-Environmental Schemes in France
Amblard, Laurence - 2011
"Watershed governance typically relies on more or less formal inter-organizational networks whose structure is likely to influence the success of cooperation. An emerging body of literature seeks to analyze the role of networks in natural resource management. This paper aims at contributing to...
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Agricultural Commodities, Trade and Sustainable Development
Lines, Thomas - 2005
"Talks on agricultural trade liberalization at the World Trade Organization must take into account the needs of commodity-dependent developing countries, to ensure that agricultural trade and commodity production will deliver outcomes that favour both the environment and poverty reduction....
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Leveraging regional growth dynamics in African agriculture
Abdulai, Awudu; Johnson, Michael; Diao, Xinshen - 2006
This study focuses on public investments and policy reforms for leveraging growth spillovers at the Africaregional level. It reviews first the theory and evidence of knowledge and growth spillovers generally andsecond the evidence in the African context. Given the limited and scattered evidence...
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