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Is Zimbabwe More Productive Than the United States? Some Observations From PWT 8.1
In Penn World Table (PWT) 8.1, several developing countries stand out as outliers
with high total factor productivity (TFP) levels relative to the United States (U.S.).
For example, in 2011, Zimbabwe and Trinidad and ...
Building Adaptive Capacity For Natural Resource Management In Akaroa Coastal Environment, New Zealand.
This thesis examines how people in the coastal environment of the Akaroa area of Banks Peninsula, New Zealand are doing at building adaptive capacity for local approaches to natural resource management. Adaptive capacity ...
How do empowerment and self-determination affect national health outcomes?
There remains a persistent gap in health outcomes between wealthy and poor countries. Basic measures such as life expectancy, infant and child mortality remain divergent, with preventable deaths being unacceptably high, ...
Power and politics of organisational sustainable development : an analysis of organisational reporting discourse
This research begins and ends with a concern for the environment, in particular with unease about current constitutions of the organisation/environment relationship. This thesis explores the discourse of organisational ...
Income Inequality and FDI: Evidence with Turkish Data
This paper explores how foreign direct investment (FDI) and other determinants impact income inequality in Turkey in the short- and long-run. We apply the ARDL (Auto-Regressive Distributed Lag) modelling approach, which ...
Country of origin and confidence in quality of imported foods in China
Food distribution channel members in the Peoples’ Republic of China have been interviewed regarding the key factors that determine where they source imported food products. Concerns about food safety and mistrust of food ...
Community-Based Tourism And Language Revitalization In Haida Gwaii, Canada
The consequences related to the loss of the worlds indigenous languages are not fully understood–the warnings as to the urgency of this issue largely unheeded, due in part to the enormity and challenges of regaining lost ...
Roles of Universities in Clusters: The University of Otago and the Dunedin ICT Cluster
Cluster actors have the advantage of face-to-face interaction due to geographical proximity, which allows knowledge exchange with universities within clusters. The co-location of cluster actors provides an environment that ...
Deadlines, Procrastination, and Inattention in Charitable Giving: A Field Experiment
We conduct a field experiment to analyze the effect of deadline length on charitable giving. Subjects are invited to complete an online survey, with a donation going to charity if they do so. Participants are given either ...
Measuring aid effectively in tests of aid effectiveness
In the extensive empirical literature on aid effectiveness, aid is always measured as a share of GDP. However, measuring aid in real dollars per capita is also consistent with standard growth theory. We show that the choice ...