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Mother's income and child mortality in southern Nigeria

Sulaiman, Ismaila Lawal - 1987

Material resources affect the levels of mortality. In cross-sectional relationships income has been found to be positively associated with survival, both within and between countries. Preston (1975, 1976), in particular, using cross-national data for three separate decades of the 20th century,...

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Strategic features of management accounting systems: an examination of the relationship between practice, research, and education

Moores, Ken - 1992

Management accounting has been the subject of criticism lately especially for its failure to deliver decision relevant information to managers.. Implicated in this failure are not only practicing accountants but also academic accountants who are seen as being isolated from practice. This aspect...

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Business sustainability and undergraduate management education in Australia

Fisher, Josie; Bonn, Ingrid - 2009

There is a large and rapidly expanding academic literature arguing that there is an urgent requirement for businesses to become more sustainable. There is also a demonstrated need for managers to develop a better understanding of sustainability and the appropriate strategies required to improve...

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Policy Reform and Off-farm Labor Supply by Operators in the Delta Region: A

Mishra, Ashok K.; Paudel, Krishna P. - 2008

Off-farm employment has been an integral part of the emerging structure of production agriculture in the South. Government farm program payments, farm structure, and strong non-farm economy have important impact on labor allocation, farm and non-farm labor, decision of farm operators. The...

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Voices of the Poor: Poverty and Growth in Albania

Tsaneva, Magda - 2007

analysis is to investigate the importance of health, education, and infrastructure indicators for income growth. The second … health. Only the higher education of poor urban households seems to have affected prospects for growing out of poverty, and …

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Voices of the Poor: Poverty and Growth in Albania

Tsaneva, Magda - 2007

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Real Exchange Rates and Competitiveness: The Political Economy of Skill Formation, Wage Compression, and Electoral Systems

Soskice, David - 2010

A major puzzle in the open economy literature is why some countries have persistently higher real exchange rates than others. Even more puzzling is the fact that countries with high real exchange rates are strong export performers. We solve both puzzles with a model that integrates two central...

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The Role of Education in Determining Labor Market Outcomes in Urban China's Transitional Labor Markets.

Maurer-Fazio, Margaret - 2002

enterprises shed redundant workers. This paper focuses on the role of education in determining labor market outcomes in China … of 1999 and spring of 2000, demonstrates that education is a key determinant of labor market outcomes. Educational … attainment is an important and significant factor in the lay-off decision-the more education a worker has the better his/ her …

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Systemic project management

Yan Song - 2011

Project management professionals have long recognized the strengths and limitations of traditional project management focus on scope, cost and schedule (the iron triangle). Adding “soft skills” to the mix helps but still leaves a large gap from achieving sustainable organizational success....

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Tracking change in the relative economic status of Indigenous People in New South Wales

Taylor, John - 2005

occurring is severely limited by continuing deficits in the crucial area of education together with sustained high interaction …

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