Aid can be defined as grants or loans provided to governments or other entities in developing countries by governments or major multilateral institutions from developed countries in order to promote economic growth and human welfare. A lot of literature have springed arguing on the impact of the development aid on developing countries ... income inequality in less developed countries. Many development aids are not used for their destined projects as they are usually diverted to other non-productive programs an act which Van de Walle (2012) and other scholars have termed as fungibility of ...

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... , theorists suggested a range of typologies of the alliances. Yoshino and Rangan (1995) suggested three key types of alliances, namely joint ventures, minority equity alliances and nontraditional contracts. Lorange and Van de ven (1992) suggested four types of alliances, namely consortium, ad hoc pool and project-based joint ventures. Other types of alliances were proposed by Dussuage and Garette (1995), who identified ... ...

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... of certain industrial sectors in the periphery, but they were needed medicine in order to get the prices right Western development institutions, notably the IMF, the World Bank and their major members attributed poor records to the prevailing policies and strategies of development which had been pursued in the post-war era. The ... major flaw, they argued, had been the degree of state involvement in economic affair and the curtailment of free markets and liberal trade regimes. Reducing the economic power and role of ... . The insistence by SAPs on the deregulation of laws and the downs...

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... chance of improving the efficiency and equity of the land market through normal trading operations. An agricultural structure marked by the misappropriation and concentration of land in Mexico acts as a major barrier to the nation's economic and social development. In the short term, it inhibits growth of agricultural production and employment, while in the long term, it causes poverty and waste ... "not conducive to a rapid and meaningful political assimilation of its marginal rural population" (Brannon 186). In the face of such a situation, if the economy and society are to expand har...

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... made it enormously difficult for governments to regulate and control monetary transactions across national boundaries. The key nodes in this global economic and financial system are cities that act as major facilitators of cross- border transactions and are connected by a variety of economic and social networks. Such cities are the successor to the port cities that, in the past, were often ... major hubs for the development of criminal organizations. In concluding, with today's technology, the increasing loop holes in international monetary control, and weak or illegitimate government, ...

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... the use of pesticides and fertilizers, which seep into streams and rivers, harm the environment. Moreover, the increase in access to technology for vehicles has led to photochemical smog in major cities. For example, between 2005 and 2007, 2 million motorbikes were registered in Vietnam (and many more were unregistered), subsequently increasing pollution and placing pressure on Vietnam's infrastructure. Thus, the pursuit ... ...

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... human capital is available to support business activity as well as to develop innovative capacity and entrepreneurship. It is therefore to be expected that, over the coming years, a series of major systematic reviews of educational frameworks at the national level will be necessary in many countries across all stages of development. Overall, although there are indications that economic policies and measures ... ...

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... American capitalist approach to the world economy in the absence of the countervailing socialist bloc. This may seem benign enough and as simply the predictable role assumed by the world's major economic and political power with the breakup of its principal adversary in the Soviet Union of old. However, as Lipset warned just before the term Globalization began to be familiar ... ...

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... as the basic economic force and, through his analysis of the division of labor and his comprehensive study of the development of economic institutions in the West, established economics as a major area of study. The Division of labor is the specialization of the functions and roles involved in production. Among the different categories of division of labor are territorial, in which ... ...

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... maker not working with China will be excluded from the largest single event in the development of the world economy. Yet one must examine why China is becoming economically developed. Major reasons for China's economic development are its use of cheap labor, little civil liberties, and poor working conditions. These conditions are the result of a strategy where financial incentives for local ... ...

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... and contribute to development. It too, like high infant and child mortality rates, shows a lack of social development because quality of health and accessibility to it is one of the major indicators of social development. The introduction of new policies of trade, investment and communication by the government attempt to soothe and even reverse any decline in social development, however, such ... ...

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... . In summary, the development of Barrow Island would provide wide ranging, long term conservation benefits to the community, contribute to world class conservation programs while Australia would benefit from a new major competitive and more secure gas supply for the next phase of energy- intensive industry development and power generation, making Barrow Island the only acceptable location where the development can be ... ...

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... concerned with the basic principles underlying economic activity than with specific problems in economics during his era in the eighteenth century. Some of Cantillon's most notable works dealing with his major themes of study in economics that will be summarized initially in this paper deal largely with the market and prices, competition in the market and the critical role of the ... ...

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... (in David, 1986, 57) "As long as the Spartan's domination was confined to the Pelopennese (area), their own supplies and resources were sufficient for their needs". The economy had two major bases, the agrarian production of the helots, and the commercial/industrial work performed by the perioikoi. These were each essential for the economy to function and allowed for the ruling ... ...

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... the more relevant criteria for selecting managers than gender, ethnicity or even prior experience. Under such a scenario, the "learning organization " will be the standard philosophy for many enterprises and the major way they cope with change and turbulence. Success, in today's environment can be achieved only through the continous improvement of the business, a journey that spans from an initial awareness of ... ...

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