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The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) is a flexible market mechanism intended to reduce greenhouse emissions and …
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investigates the potential of rural institutions (farmerorganizations, their rules and enforcement mechanisms) for remedying … requires policysupport, increased capital access, rural finance and market information. …
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"We are concerned here with the creation of non-market institutions for reducing the cost of risk in poor agrarian … Institutions, the formal and informal rules that order and constrain human relations, affect three critical aspects of economic … individual and communal income and consumption. Here we examine primarily the role of agrarian institutions in containing risk or …
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whether the choice of institutions depends on the historical experience and the stock of knowledge of economic agents. We …
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public procurement can play a significant role in market transformation through its influence on both buyers and suppliers … leading manufacturers and distributors to increase their sales and market share by offering energy-efficient products at … influence on the market for efficient products. In the United States, President Bush signed an Executive Order in 2001 directing …
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position of institutions in both the central and local, they are able to manage these processes. …
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Die effektiv zu zahlende Prämie bestimmt sich in der Privaten Krankenversicherung als Summe aus Tarifbeiträgen, (optimalen) Selbsttragungen und Beitragsrückerstattungen. Letztere dienen der sekundären Prämiendifferenzierung. Ändert nun ein Versicherer sein Rückerstattungssystem, so hat...
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The South African private healthcare industry has grown since the advent of afull democracy in South Africa (UNDP, 2007 …) and research into the endconsumer choice preferences for private hospital facilities has yielded usefulinsights.This study … looks at the end consumer choice preferences of the privatehospital industry in South Africa. It is designed to aid private …
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This study explores the relationship between a venture capital firm?s geographic region and the investment traits that it values. This study?s results will help determine whether venture capital firms, by geographic region, emphasize certain investment traits over others when funding new...
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On the 1st of January 2007, Bulgaria became a member of the European Union. It is indisputable, that a well developed … market, the banks play an important role as financial intermediaries. After the first period of an almost extreme credit …, partially as a reaction to foreign competitors, who set foot on the Bulgarian market in 2001. The growth and the volume of money …
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