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Microcredit programs have a positive socioeconomic impact on the rural female borrowers of Bangladesh. This study suggests that the microcredit programs do not help the borrowers to develop any entrepreneurial capabilities other than survival. Thus, this paper aims at identifying the factors related to the development of entrepreneurship among rural women through the microcredit programs of providers. A multivariate analysis technique (Factor Analysis) was conducted to identify the factors related to entrepreneurship development. Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) was used to identify the relationship between microcredit programs and the development of rural female entrepreneurship in Bangladesh. Results show that financial management skills are the most important factor and have a sign...
...Half of this population is women. Men who live in the rural areas are prim... a key to economic development in many countries across the globe (OECD, 1998, 2003; UN, 2004). Abo...
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... world--one that calls for a population sophisticated enough to make appropriate decisions... in the major agriculture producing countries, gave us the collective ability to provide adequat... Learning (Oslo: ICDE, 2009); UNESCO-UIS/OECD, Education Trends in Perspective: Analysis of the ...
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[...] access to cheap energy resources is of such major importance for the industrialized countries that it triggers political and military conflicts. [...] the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has increased from the pre-industrial level of 280 parts per million (ppm) to 385 ppm today, resulting in an increase of the average global temperature of about 0.6 °C. Based on results of the International Panel on Climate Change,2 there is a growing scientific and political consensus that an increase of 2°C of the earth's average temperature above pre-industrial levels is the maximum safe level that can be envisaged.
...While the world population has quadrupled since 1870, to 6.3 billion at prese... percent of the world population in the OECD countries has over eighty-one percent of the gross...
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... further examined for each of the ten countries included in the study. The following section provi...The target population of this 2005-2006 survey consisted of people who h...Proceedings of the OECD Conference on Women Entreprrneurs in Small and Med...
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... for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries essentially will remain flat through 20.... Q: How do changes in the world's population and standards of living affect energy-demand trend...
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Additionally, poorer states may believe that by allowing visafree travel from rich countries, problems such as large-scale illegal immigration or refugee crises will not arise. [...] our initial intent is to conceptualize visa-free travel rights as a measure of national influence and how closely this influence fits into the actual data.
...Surprisingly, health, trade, population size, geographic location and religion do not appe... for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), with high per capita income and effective democr...
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...Particularly, the developing countries are experiencing adverse effects of climate change..., water supply, natural resources, population migration and poverty (McCarthy et al., 2001; Hamd... and health status: Econometric evidence from OECD countries. Am. J. Applied Sci., 4: 192-196. DOI: 1...
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... during the last 10 years in some EU countries. From 1999 to 2009, the share of foreign-born in tthe population in Spain rose from 3 to 13.5 percent, and in Italy... International Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries to workers from the rest of the world, ...
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..., developed since the 1980s in most countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and DDevelopment--OECD--(Hood 1995; Pollit and Bouckaert 2004), have chan..., and because for municipalities with a population between 3,000 and 5,000 inhabitants the requiremen...
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MADRID, Oct. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Government debt burdens in most advanced economies could reach unsustainable levels of over 300% of GDP in the next 40 years, without fresh measures to address long- term age-related spending trends, according to a new study by Standard & Poor's Ratings Services. The report, titled "Global Aging 2010: An Irreversible Truth," and published on RatingsDirect, updates Standard & Poor's 2007 study on the sustainability of public finances in the light of demographic change and now covers 49 countries, totaling more than two-thirds of the world's population. To accompany the report, we also published a supplement on the methodology and sources used in our calculations, "Global Aging 2010: An Irreversible Truth--Methodological And Data Supplement.
In our view, po...