the political economy of the resource curse a literature survey

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... approach, in a sense, tries to capture the societal debates about environment and political economy rather than just the academic debates over the theories of the political economy of the environment. Naturally, ... science and international relations. They share many of the broad assumptions and arguments of market liberals—especially the belief in the value of economic growth, globalization, trade, foreign ... divides the world into arti- ficial territories, aggravates the effects of too many humans, because it violates the principles of ecology and creates what academic Garrett Hardin famously called a “tragedy...

Ngày tải lên: 01/06/2014, 10:55

... Goad, Joshua Gordon, Jeca Glor-Bell, and Sanushka Mudaliar also helped immeasurably with the research. We are grateful to the Australian Research Council and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council ... the theories of the political economy of the environment. Naturally, given the breadth of our labels, many disagreements exist among those in each category. We have tried to show the range of ... divides the world into arti- ficial territories, aggravates the effects of too many humans, because it violates the principles of ecology and creates what academic Garrett Hardin famously called a “tragedy...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 12:44

... conglomerates such as AstraZeneca, GE Healthcare, and Pharmacia (now absorbed by Pfizer). The big pharma company AstraZeneca alone accounts for the bulk of private bio-based research and development. ... (Australian Research Council 2002). Health and medical research is also an area of traditional strength and in the 1990s biotechnology and pharmaceuticals emerged as fields of relative specialisation ... research sector and the big pharma companies are of very recent vintage and remain weak and fragile by comparison to Sweden, the UK and the USA. According to the pharma industry its aggregate...

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... and the abolition of dual financing for hospitals were killed off by the opposition in the Bundesrat. All the government was able to ob tain was a reform of hospital finance. Instead of a standard ... Affairs of the Land of Bavaria encour- aged the local health care funds to do exactly this. The year 2003 became the year of health care reform. Scandals involving financial conspiracies between ... Bundesrat was accompa nied by a large-scale campaign involving all the major players in the health sector: doctors’ associations, the pharmaceutical industry, and the health insurance funds, 63 not...

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... provincial departments (and not just the Department of Economic Affairs, Agriculture and Tourism), as well as the work of local government, national departments, parastatals and the many other stakeholders ... providers, Iafrica.com and M-Web, are based in the province, and more than 50 call centres are located in the larger Cape Town area. One of the most successful integrators of traditional media and Internet ... competitors, unless the knowledge transfer takes place under circumstances that hold clear and immediate advantages for them. Such advantages have classically taken the form of the relatively low cost...

Ngày tải lên: 27/01/2014, 12:20

... introduced the main areas of the virtual economy and described the dierent business models that are used in them. In each of the areas it was found that at least some part of the economic activity ... to obtain virtual goods and make full use of the features of a game or a community. A key capability that all work aggregators share is the ability to not only contact a large number of people, ... detail the main areas of the virtual economy, their economic impact, business models and value chains. e two major areas of the existing virtual economy are identied as 1) third- party gaming...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 10:20

... ii.] With the rise of this system, and the attendant increased importation of slaves, came the end of the helpful contact of servants with their masters. Slavery was thereby changed from a patriarchal ... did not reach all parts of the colony.[2] The Quakers of North Carolina, however, had local schools and actually taught slaves. Some of these could read and write as early as 1731. Thereafter, household ... advocates of the education of the Negroes endeavored to give them such practical training as their peculiar needs demanded. In the agricultural sections the first duty of the teacher of the blacks was...

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... number of borrowers and outstanding loans (ii) analysis of overdues (iii) the average effective rate of interest, the average cost of funds and the average margin earned (iv) analysis of the ... clients, and 63.6% of the loan portfolio of Microfinance provided by all MFIs. We also examined the financials for the same year of two smaller MFIs. The results of that analysis are as under:- ... private equity has entered the sector. On the one hand, there was a huge unsatisfied demand for microfinance credit and on the other, there was a limitation on the capacity of not-for-profit...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 14:20

... N- and C-termini [33] and a transmembrane a helix in the central region (Fig. 1 ). On this basis, and in view of the finding that the C-terminal part of the LH1 a polypeptide plays an important ... via the plasmid pRKX (in trans) into the host Rb. s phaeroides DQ x/g, deprived of the chromosomal copy of the puf operon. Table 1. Bacterial strains and plasmids. The plasmid host strain in all the ... between that of the monomeric and the dimeric form ( see above) in mutant PufX54*. As in these last two mutants a short lag was observed (see Table 2), apparently the presence of a stable dimer...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 09:20

... and habit required at the start of a war a declaration to that effect, a declaration accompanied by the withdrawal of ambassadors. But neither Peking nor London had ambassadors positioned and ... more about Americans in China in the early nineteenth century than any man alive, made available to me xerox copies of a portion of the Carrington papers and read a large part of the manuscript ... was at its height, the admirers still imagined (as they had always and with perfect accuracy imagined) that the object of their admiration was as powerful as it was advanced. Yet for all that...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 14:18

... analyses. AB drafted the manuscript and participated in the statistical analyses. JWV and GM revised the manuscript critically. All authors read and approved the final manuscript. Berkes et al. Health ... part in the adaptation process for the PedsQL™ 3.0 Cardiac Module only; the Hungar- ian Generic Core Scale was already available through the MAPI Research Institute. Statistical analysis Feasibility ... gender. It was the mother who answered the questionnaire in 89.5% of the sample, it was the father in 4.57% of the sample, and it was someone else in 6.28% of the sample. Distribution of all participants...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... several clinical variables: 1) laboratory indicators: fasting plasma glucose, 2-hour postprandial plasma glucose, and HbA1c, and 2) complications of diabetes: retinopathy, neuropa- Health and Quality of ... Baltimore, MD, USA, 4 Tainan Hospital, Department of Health, Tainan, Taiwan and 5 Department of Educational Psychology, College of Education, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA Email: ... distribution-based approach, we estimated a stand- ard error of measurement (SEM) which accounts for relia- bility of the DQOL and standard deviation of patients under the investigation. SEM was estimated by a...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... SMP, IAP, JWV and PJA conceptualized the rationale and design of the study. MLRJ contributed to the statistical analysis and interpretation of the data. ACS and SMP drafted the manuscript. All authors ... USA Email: Ana C Scarpelli - anascap@yahoo.com.br; Saul M Paiva* - saul.paiva@mcgill.ca; Isabela A Pordeus - isabela@netuno.lcc.ufmg.br; Maria L Ramos-Jorge - mlrjorge@hotmail.com; James W Varni ... was no report by the patients or guardians of any lack of comprehension regarding the questions. The lack of validation studies on assessment scales of the quality of life among children and adolescents...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20

... score interpretations from these data [15]. Additionally, the way each rating scale is constructed has great influence on the quality of data obtained from the scale [16], and a rating scale may not be used ... in the way it was intended by the developer of the scale [15]. Thus, the assumptions about both the quality of the measures and utility of the rating scale in facilitating interpretable meas- ures ... citation purposes) aration are low, while item reliability and separation are high. As we mentioned earlier, these results indicate that the sample has a narrow spread and the sample size is large...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20

... groups. In addition, the patterns during early and late phases of phrenic neuro- gram were almost the same as those of gasping. As matu- ration proceeds, the similarity between the late phase of phrenic ... piglets. After the first week of postnatal age, the duration of the phrenic neurogram burst significantly increases and the patterns during the early phase of the phrenic neurogram are different ... neurogram is not a periodic signal and that its characteristics change rapidly during maturation. The dominant burst type activ- ities disappeared during the early phase of the phrenic neurogram although...

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