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QUAD and AUKUS and the Balance of Power in the Asia-Pacific Region: Prospects for Russia, China and ASEAN

open access: yesКонтуры глобальных трансформаций: политика, экономика, право, 2023
Over the past few years the US-China rivalry has been the main reason for the key events in the Asia-Pacific region. Now this strategic confrontation is taking new forms. Various alliances and coalitions led by the United States are being created.
E. S. Martynova
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China’s Cooperation with Multilateral Institutions of International Cooperation on Development Issues (Example of Interactions with the UN Institutions)

open access: yesСравнительная политика, 2020
The article examines main aspects of the PRC’s policy on international development cooperation, including China’s rationales, priority spheres and formats of interaction with 25 leading multilateral institutions of international cooperation (MIIC ...
S. V. Mikhnevich
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Three Priorities for Promoting Entrepreneurship – The Swiss Entrepreneurs Initiative

open access: yesCHIMIA, 2020
The Swiss Entrepreneurs Foundation was established in late 2017, with Federal Councillor Guy Parmelin its current patron. The privately funded public-interest foundation has three primary objectives: 1) Helping bring the innovative technologies of the ...
Simon Enderli
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Not-for-profit entrepreneurs [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Public Economics, 2001
Abstract Entrepreneurs who start new firms may choose not-for-profit status as a means of committing to soft incentives. Such incentives protect donors, volunteers, consumers and employees from ex post expropriation of profits by the entrepreneur. We derive conditions under which completely self-interested entrepreneurs opt for not-for-profit status,
Glaeser, Edward, Shleifer, Andrei
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Risk management assessment against the threat and disasters caused by forest fires. An application case for the wildland urban interface of Valparaíso, Chile

open access: yesBiodiversidade Brasileira, 2020
The growth of the cities has contributed to the generation of processes and dynamics linked to the transition between urban and rural-forest ecosystems, thereby enhancing the emergence of Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) spaces (Herrero-Corral, 2012), as ...
Teresita de Jesús Alcantara Diaz   +1 more
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Models of «business twenty» governance: possibilities of optimization

open access: yesСравнительная политика, 2016
: The article investigates the activities and structure of the «Group of Twenty» (G20) main outreach group - «Business Twenty» (B20). «Group of Twenty» is one of the leading international economic summitry institutions, which has enough capacity to infl ...
Alisa A. Prokhorova   +1 more
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Tourism and Entrepreneurship: A South African Literature Review [PDF]

open access: yesAfrican Journal of Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure, 2023
This study’s main objective was to investigate connections that might exist between entrepreneurship and tourism. The importance of entrepreneurs and new company start-ups in the tourism sector for innovation and value creation is reflected in the ...
Takalani Ramukumba
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The embedded entrepreneur [PDF]

open access: yesEuropean Management Review, 2009
Abstract Using comprehensive data on the Danish population, this paper examines the determinants of entrepreneurs' choices of where to locate their new ventures. Our findings suggest that entrepreneurs place much more emphasis on being close to family and friends than on regional characteristics that might influence the performance of their ventures ...
Dahl, Michael S.; id_orcid 0000-0002-3970-1483   +1 more
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China’s Entrepreneurs [PDF]

open access: yesWorld Development, 2009
Summary This paper investigates the traits of self-employed entrepreneurs in urban China, an economy rife with informational and institutional imperfections, under-developed financial markets, but a growing and important non-state sector. Despite this challenging context, this paper finds that entrepreneurs make on average 20% more than non ...
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The forgotten step in hand hygiene: A look at hand drying practices in the VFSM survey [PDF]

open access: yesBIO Web of Conferences
Handwashing is a cornerstone defense against the growing threat of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). This study explores knowledge of proper handwashing techniques among participants in the Village Food Safety Movement (VFSM) Program across all 34 ...
Lustriane Cita   +4 more
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