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Patronage or Participation? Community-based Natural Resource Management Reform in Sub-Saharan Africa
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2008-07)
This article examines the institutional factors that account for the outcome of efforts to decentralize control over natural resources to local communities. It focuses on the political nature of institutional processes ...
Derivatives Trading and the Volume-Volatility Link in the Indian Stock Market
(2008-08-01)
This paper investigates the issue of temporal ordering of the range-based volatility and volume in the Indian stock market for the period 1995-2007. We examine the dynamics of the two variables and their respective ...
Yuan Real Exchange Rate Undervaluation, 1997-2006. How Much, How Often? Not Much, Not Often
(2008-08-01)
Yuan real effective exchange rate misalignment is esitimated in a behavioral equilibrium exchange rate (BEER) model for the period 1997 to third quarter 2007. Using the Beveridge-Nelson decomposition a vector error correction ...
Labor supply responses to adverse shocks under credit constraints: evidence from Bukidnon, Philippines
(UP School of Economics and the Philippine Economic Society, 2008-12)
The ability of households to insure consumption from adverse shocks is an important aspect of vulnerability to poverty. How is consumption insurance achieved in a low-income setting where formal credit and insurance markets ...
But Is It Myopia? Risk Aversion and the Efficiency of Stock-Based Managerial Incentives
(Blackwell Publishing Inc, 2008-06)
Foreign Direct Investment and Structural Reforms: Evidence from Eastern Europe and Latin America
(2008-01-01)
This paper investigates the role of structural reforms ñ privatization, financial reform and trade liberalizationñ as determinants of FDI inflows based on newly constructed dataset on structural reforms for 19 Latin American ...
Complementary Alternative Benefits to Promote Peace
(2008-12)
Recent research has focused on business as a mediating institution that can influence society while engaging in the traditional profit-making and value generation functions. This work includes Professors Fort’s and ...
Standardized test outcomes for students engaged in inquiry-based science curricula in the context of urban reform
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2008-10)
Considerable effort has been made over the past decade to address the needs of learners in large urban districts through scaleable reform initiatives. We examine the effects of a multifaceted scaling reform that focuses ...
Is Courtesy Enough?Solidarity in Call Center Interactions
(2008-05)
Polite self-presentation is expected of call center agents even through they must convey complex and unfavorable information speedily via the telephone. This study identified and evaluated the use of response strategies ...
Fifty Years of Intercultural Study: A Continuum of Perspectives for Research and Teaching
(2008-04-30)
Reviewing intercultural research since the publication of Halls (1959) The Silent Language, this study identifies five different perspectivesuniversal, national, organizational, interpersonal, and intrapersonaland key ...