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Banking Competition, Good or Bad?: The Case of Promoting Micro and Small Enterprise Finance in Kazakhstan [PDF]
Competition is claimed to be beneficial in development projects promoting micro and small enterprise finance although there are still some doubts whether these loans can be developed into a profitable business.
Boriss Siliverstovs +2 more
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US Life Expectancy and Increasing Mortality Rates: An Analysis of the Crisis
The Milbank Quarterly, EarlyView.Policy Points US life expectancy is shorter than in other high‐income countries and the gap has widened dramatically over time, driven in particular by rising mortality rates that threaten the probability that youth can survive to middle age, or even adulthood.
STEVEN H. WOOLF
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Changing Competitiveness of the Wheat Sector of Kazakhstan and Sources of Future Productivity Growth [PDF]
Economic incentives in Kazakhstan have been radically reshaped since the Soviet era ended in 1991. In the first phase of transition, the economy and agricultural sectors declined by 40-50%.
Moldashev, Altynbeck, Longmire, James L.
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Participatory institutions are no longer confined to liberal democracies as autocrats around the world experiment with ‘authoritarian participation’. This also applies to the most successful democratic innovation of recent decades: participatory budgeting (PB).
DANIEL TJARKS
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Using Energy Resources to Diversify the Economy: Agricultural Price Distortions in Kazakhstan [PDF]
The agricultural sector in Kazakhstan experienced declining output throughout the 1990s, partly because relative prices shifted from being distorted in favor of farmers to being distorted against them.
Richard Pomfret
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract In flawed democracies, such as the Republic of Georgia, legal exceptions for urban megaprojects are becoming a standard mode of governance. While frequently analyzed as singular, top‐down sovereign acts, I argue that the imposition of such exceptions is a complex and dispersed process.
David Gogishvili
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[Karta masshtaba 1:500 000] [cartographic material] /
, 1992 Relief shown by contours, shading, gradient tints, and spot heights. Depths shown by contours and soundings.; Title devised by cataloger.; Individual sheet title in upper margin at center, e.g.: Shymkent.; Jurisdiction(s) covered by sheet given in upper ...
Kazakhstan.
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Human Resource Management Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Whether and why social processes support global HRM integration is an overlooked, yet increasingly relevant performance question in decentralized transnational work environments. Using social capital theory, we conceptualize the social dynamic and behaviors influencing global HRM integration.
Olga Tregaskis +7 more
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The new pensions in Kazakhstan : challenges in making the transition [PDF]
In June of 1997 Kazakhstan embarked on a dramatic reform of its pension system, replacing the inherited pay as you go regime with one based entirely on fully funded individual accounts.
Vilamovska, Anna-Marie +2 more
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Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.This study reports two isolated feather fossils from the Lower Cretaceous Dabeigou Formation in northeastern China. Morphological analyses identified them as the earliest known feathered theropods (potentially including avian) in the Jehol Biota. This finding reveals a complex ecosystem at the dawn of the Jehol Biota, bridging the temporal and faunal ...
Qian Wu +2 more
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