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The Road to Development is Paved With Good Institutions: The Political and Economic Implications of Financial Markets

Brown, Chelsea Denise - 2008

This research seeks to identify the factors that account for the variation in development levels across nations by … focusing on the institutional components of development, especially the effects of financial market development on economic and … political development. I argue that financial market institutions are critical to economic and political development, and …

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Capability building for the manufacture of photovoltaic system components in developing countries

Bruce, Anna Gabrielle, Photovoltaics & Renewable Energy … - 2007

been fulfilled by the development and assessment of a software simulation training tool for PV cell production line … engineers, the development of an analysis framework, and application of it to several case study PV enterprises. Through the …

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Marginality: Addressing the nexus of poverty, exclusion and ecology

von Braun, Joachim (contributor); … - 2014

ecological systems. The marginality concept leads to different development policies. While the prevalence of poverty declined by …

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Rejection of the Gender and Equal Opportunities Bill in Nigeria : A setback for sustainable development goal five

Makinde, Olusesan Ayodeji; Onyemelukwe, Cheluchi; … - In: Gender in Management: An International Journal 32 (2017) 3, pp. 234-240

Purpose Achieving gender equality and empowering all women and girls is the fifth Sustainable Development Goal (SDG …). This continues the effort of the third Millennium Development Goal (MDG), which was “to promote gender equality and empower …

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Ethics of social innovation

J. Ims, Knut; Zsolnai, Laszlo - In: Society and Business Review 9 (2014) 2, pp. 186-194

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the main reasons for social innovations to be successful in developing countries. Design/methodology/approach – In this paper, four famous cases of social innovation are studied and contrasted in the following dimensions: goals, means and...

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Corporate social responsibility: a study of savings banks

Jesús Barroso, María; Galera, Clementina; Valero, Víctor - In: International Journal of Bank Marketing 30 (2012) 6, pp. 414-435

Purpose – Society's concern about issues related to development aid to underdeveloped countries has grown significantly … examine the role Spain's savings banks play in international cooperation and development as a field that society and the … increasingly relevant role of these savings banks in cooperation for development, mainly due to pressure from their customers and …

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Shortcomings in planning approaches to tourism development in developing countries: the case of Turkey

Tosun, Cevat; Timothy, Dallen J. - In: International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management 13 (2001) 7, pp. 352-359

Many developing countries have prepared plans particularly at the central level to guide tourism development, as they …, mainly aims at analyzing the shortcomings of the planning approaches to tourism development in developing countries by … tourism development. Concludes that there is the need for political stability, establishing supportive institutions and …

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An approach to quantifying social justice in selected developing countries

Helmy, Heba E. - In: International Journal of Development Issues 12 (2013) 1, pp. 67-84

Purpose – The objective of this paper is to prove that any attempt to implement social justice in its present undefined form is unattainable, and to successfully achieve social justice, the term should be quantified by an appropriate index; accordingly, the first objective of this paper is to...

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Exploring the relationship between corporate social responsibility, law and development in an African context : Should government be responsible for ensuring corporate responsibili...

Okoye, Adaeze - In: International Journal of Law and Management 54 (2012) 5, pp. 364-378

relevant in the face of linkages between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and development. The article uses the example of … Nigeria's attempt to pass a CSR bill mandating contributions towards development to identify several questions arising in such … its linkage with development as well as the implications and issues raised by the attempted CSR law. Findings – The main …

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The Rising Resilience of Emerging Market and Developing Economies

Abiad, Abdul; Bluedorn, John C; Guajardo, Jaime; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2012

Economic performance in many emerging market and developing economies (EMDEs) improved substantially over the past twenty years. The past decade was particularly goodâ€”for the first time EMDEs spent more time in expansion and had smaller downturns thanadvanced economies. In this paper we...

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