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  Sharing demographic risk – who is afraid of the baby bust?

  Mannheim Research Institute for the Economics of Aging, 2008

  Falling fertility rates and increasing life expectancy are putting a strain on existing public Pay-As-You-Go (PAYG) pension systems. The authors model the optimal reaction of a pubic PAYGO pension system to demographic shocks. They assume the existence of a fully committed planner.
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  Rich meets poor – an international fairness experiment

  Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2008

  While poverty-focused campaigns such as the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals argue their case in terms of charity, others, including fair trade initiatives, attempt to appeal to people’s sense of justice. But which approach is more persuasive? The Chr.
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  Norway's strategic interests in Central America

  Centre for Development and the Environment, University of Oslo, Norway, 2008

  Central America is a small and distant region where Norway has few obvious strategic interests. This paper analyses Norway’s strategic interests in Central America based on an evaluation of the current political and economic situation in the region, and the state of development policy and politics.
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  Centre for Sustainability Management, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg (CSM)

  Das Centre for Sustainability Management (CSM) der Leuphana Universität Lüneburg ist ein international tätiges Kompetenzzentrum zu Forschung, Lehre, wissenschaftlicher Weiterbildung und
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  'You are not going to amuse yourself', barriers to achieving wellbeing through international migration: the case of Peruvian immigrants in London and Madrid

  International NGO Training and Research Centre, 2007

  International migration from Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) to the EU is important but has received relatively little attention and needs to be better understood. This paper provides a wellbeing analysis of international migration by inductively analysing perceived obstacles or blocks to achieving wellbeing amongst a sample of 99 Peruvian migrants based in London and Madrid.
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  theIDLgroup

  theIDLgroup provides advisory, applied research, training and project management services to international development agencies and partner institutions throughout the world.
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  Towards sustainable entrepreneurship: a value creating perspective on corporate societal strategies

  Centre for Sustainability Management, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, 2007

  Companies often tackle societal issues in a fragmented and unstructured way leading to remote societal activities that often fail to reach their full potential for societal and business value creation. This paper focuses on the development of societal strategy options from a value generating perspective, which is missing in current research.
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  Quality of Government Institute (QoG)

  The Institute conducts and promotes research on the causes, consequences and nature of good governance and Quality of Government (QoG) - that is, trustworthy, reliable, impartial, uncorrupted and comp
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  CSR and competitiveness: European SMEs’ good practice

  KMU FORSCHUNG AUSTRIA, Austrian Institute for SME Research, 2007

  This study focuses on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) practices in European Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs).
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  Community forestry and sustainable livelihoods: the Nepal-UK community forestry project

  Eldis Document Store, 1999

  Can the livelihoods approach refocus existing projects to better address poverty elimination? How difficult is it for already established projects to realign themselves with the Sustainable Livelihoods (SL) framework? Can our understanding of the complexities of theSL approach be 'improved' by linking them with other frameworks?

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