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Exploring Trust: New Index Reveals Public Confidence Levels

The index, a wholly new approach to the measurement of trust among the general public, shows that brokers and advisers are the most trusted, followed by…

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Discover the Future of Online Shopping Innovations

Online shopping is big business. Websites selling everything from mp3 players and music to books and budget flights continue to thrive. Now, an international…

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Uganda’s Infrastructure Investment: A Path to Economic Growth

Musisi argues that the Ugandan government should invest 24 percent of the gross domestic product in physical infrastructure. Then in the mid to long term the…

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AIB Seed Capital Fund Launches at NovaUCD with €30M Support

The AIB Seed Capital Fund, which is being equally funded by AIB and Enterprise Ireland is the first fund to be established under Enterprise Ireland’s €175…

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Multinationals snuffing out some of Britain's most promising new companies

The research shows that the presence of multinationals on UK soil increases significantly the chances of an enterprising new business going bust in its first…

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Innovation Performance Improvement in Russia and Ukraine

Radosevic belongs to a team of economists from research organisations in Russia and Ukraine, led by Assystem, that has been applying the EC’s TrendChart…

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Multinationals snuffing out some of Britain’s most promising new companies

The research shows that the presence of multinationals on UK soil increases significantly the chances of an enterprising new business going bust in its first…

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World’s first Carbon Management MBA launched

UEA, world-famous for cutting edge climate change research, is pioneering an MBA in Strategic Carbon Management designed to deliver a new type of manager able…

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Executive Stock Options Linked To Increased Fraud Risk

“Incentives to Cheat: The Influence of Executive Compensation and Firm Performance on Financial Misrepresentation,” by Jared Harris, the Darden Graduate School…

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UK Companies Overlook History’s Business Benefits

By taking a more low key approach to their corporate past, UK companies may be failing to capitalise on a range of potential business benefits, argues…

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New Dimensions in Finance — Caltech dean comes to Lausanne

The financial and banking sector is one of the mainstays of the Swiss economy. With the emergence of many competing markets, a major effort in terms of…

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The new generation of entrepreneurs: students breathe new life into Europe’s entrepreneurship

These graduate companies trade with real products and real money and operate in real business life. The student companies behind these products competed in the…

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Impact of Recreation Goods Prices on American Men’s Work Hours

In a study appearing in the July 2007 issue of the Journal of Labor Economics, Jorge Gonzales-Chapela (Universidad de Alicante, Spain) combines…

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Micro-Finance: A Key Solution to Alleviate Poverty

Micro-finance really came under the spotlight after Professor Mohammad Yunus and Grameen Bank in Bangladesh won the Nobel Peace Prize for their work relating…

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Effective Regulation in the Transatlantic Marketplace Conference

The conference will be addressed by Mr. Josef Ackermann, Chairman of the Management Board and of the Group Executive Committee, Deutsche Bank AG and Chairman…

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"EconomyDoctor" Internet Service provides figures for EU agriculture

The FADN database is a significant farm-level database. As an example, for accounting year 2004, it contains information from 74,000 farms across the European…

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