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Modernization and the fertility transition, Egypt, 1975

Issa, Mahmoud S. Abdou - 1980

This study investigates regional marital fertility differentials in Egypt and their relationship to the level of … birth rate in Egypt, the long term fertility and mortality levels are discussed. The prospects of a fertility transition in … Egypt are assessed in terms of the current fertility level and pattern, the extent of deliberate fertility regulation, the …

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Business Process Outsourcing: An Exploratory Study

Johnson, David - 2005

This study examines the emergence of Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) in white collar occupations. Recent BPO practices are compared to the offshore outsourcing of production in the context of the shift from Fordist to flexible production. The study considers BPO in light of Harry Braverman's...

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International petroleum statistics report: April 1996

2010

This report presents data on international oil production, demand, imports, exports, and stocks. The report has four sections. Section 1 contains time series data on world oil production, and on oil demand and stocks in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). This...

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1996-2004 Trends in the Single-Family Housing Market: Spatial Analysis of the Residential Sector

Anderson, Dave M.; Elliott, Douglas B. - 2008

share of housing activity. • The proportion of home buyers having three times the median family income for their geography …

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National Security Technology Incubation Strategic Plan

2008

does. For a company to succeed, it must have sustainable competitive advantages in seven key areas: geography, products and …

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Production linkages, agglomeration, and spatial organization of production: A monopolistic competition approach

Hamaguchi, Nobuaki - 1995

Input users and producers seek to increase their profitability by locating near each other. This self-reinforcing relationship between input producers and users can be views as a basic agglomeration force to enable the modeling of agglomeration economies based on a standard monopolistic...

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Regional heterogeneity and the pattern of international trade

Nishikimi, Koji - 1999

Traditional theory of international trade has been developed on the assumption of homogeneous country in which identical consumers and production factors are all uniformly distributed. In the real world, however, most countries are composed of heterogeneous regions, and in accordance the above...

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Towards developing a hybrid method for input-output table compilation and identifying a fundamental economic structure

van der Westhuizen, Jacobus Marthinus - 1992

This dissertation focuses on two topics that are important to regional economists. The first is the development of a hybrid method for input-output table compilation which distinguishes between economic relationships that need to be surveyed and those that can be obtained by other means. The...

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The wage gradient and the interaction between employment and residential decentralization in urban areas

Ghosh, Debashis; Ghosh, Debashis - 1995

Mathematical models of urban spatial structure in cities with decentralized employment involve the interaction between a minimum of three markets: land, labor and capital. I study the interaction between the land and the labor markets carefully. Standard theory assumes that when firms...

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North American freight rail: regulatory evolution, strategic rejuvenation, and the revival of an ailing industry

Cramer, Barton Emmet - 2007

countries (Chapter VII); and comparison of the strategies adopted by CPR and CN, the dominant Canadian firms (Chapter VIII … lines. Numerous maps illustrate the changing geography of the North American freight rail industry. …

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