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This book considers the impact of economic reforms on manufacturing performance and explores policy options for promoting manufacturing. Using country-specific case studies spanning Africa, South Asia, South East Asia and Latin America, the authors examine the evidence for and against both trade...
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The rapid review confirms that Pacific Small Island Developing States (SIDS) are socially, culturally, and environmentally diverse, with some features in common, and which collectively make them unique to other regions of the world: Small island countries have uniquely fragile water resources...
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Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) face significant financing gaps that stifle innovation and economic growth. The credit gap alone is estimated at dollar 4.5 trillion as of 2017 for emerging markets and developing economies (EMDEs) only. Bank financing has been the traditional source of...
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An effective legal and regulatory framework is essential in order to attract private investment into the telecommunications sector of most transitional and developing (TDCs) and to ensure that the TDC has the best chance of achieving the benefits for the country as a whole that flow from a...
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Chapter 1 of this paper argues that punlic sector resources in developing countries are insufficient to finance demand for investment in increasingly integrated infrastructure services. Chapter 2 discusses the role of reforms in public enterprises providing infrastructure services. Chapter 3...
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This handbook aims to provide an overview of regular survey activities, as well as to show how survey results can be … prognostic significance of survey data …
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pt. I. Trends and prospects in international business research. -- pt. II. Case study research. -- pt. III. Interviewing in international business research. -- pt. IV. Alternative methods and methodologies -- pt. V. Researching outside the triad -- pt. VI. From analysis to publication
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This unique volume provides a comprehensive survey of the major economic issues that have helped shape the modern world …
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Contents: 1. Introduction: Brief history, topics addressed, how to use this book, and glossary of terms -- 2. Dialogical and dialectical conversational interviews: Using self-correcting aid phases and 4 tests with the ciw case example -- 3. Choosing your research question: And using the...
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survey method and planned statistical analysis can constrain question design, and how these issues can be effectively … construction, and survey delivery systems including online, postal, and verbal methods, with a focus on obtaining high-quality data … testing, survey implementation, and data processing, analysis, and reporting, with examples of time and financial cost budgets …
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