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Airtel Scholar Hunt: Win Scholarships to Top UK Universities

The show – Airtel Scholar Hunt: destination UK – will offer fully paid scholarships to five UK universities, including a three year undergraduate programme in…

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ICT Investment Growth Outpaces European Economy, Reports i2010

Published by the European Commission, the report finds that the ICT sector continues to grow faster than Europe's overall economy. Between 2000 and 2004, the…

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Higher Corporate Taxes: A New Strategy for Foreign Investment

Last week, Chancellor Gordon Brown announced that corporation tax for larger companies will be cut to 28% from April 2008. This followed an earlier pledge from…

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Ensuring Fair Pension Incomes for Women: Key Challenges

In the current debate, it has become plain that no pension solution will be socially sustainable without guaranteeing fair retirement incomes for women. Our…

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Evaluating Corruption Indicators for Effective Poverty Solutions

With that comes the adoption of new strategies for fighting poverty, that place factors other than just classical economic considerations at the heart of…

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Evaluating Corruption Indicators in Development Aid Effectiveness

To measure the impact of governance, and especially corruption, global indicators have been created and international databases have proliferated. These…

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Understanding Electricity Prices: Key Factors Explored

The non-storability of electricity, absence of substitutes, inelastic supply and patterns in electricity consumption, make that power prices are subject to…

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Research Councils Applaud Boost in Science Budget Stability

In particular the commitment to 10 year Science and Innovation Investment Framework is extremely welcome as it will provide the long term stability that…

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Exploring Project Management Effectiveness Across Organizations

In recent years researchers have become increasingly interested in factors that may have an impact on project management effectiveness and the success of…

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Cutting Work Hours: Boosting Well-Being and Job Opportunities

Lonnie Golden, associate professor of economics at Penn State's Abington Campus in greater Philadelphia, said empowering the 7 percent of workers who claimed…

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Companies Limit Shareholder Rights: Insights from Arthur Anderson

Pornsit Jiraporn, assistant professor of finance at Penn State Great Valley graduate school, in suburban Philadelphia, said it's hard to say exactly why this…

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University of Portsmouth Launches Foundation Direct for Skilled Workforce

The new facility is called Foundation Direct and it will help men and women in the public and private sector workforce to study for their university degree by…

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The impact of immigration on UK wages

The research looks at the period from 1997 to 2005 and finds evidence of an overall positive impact of immigration on the wages of native born workers,…

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New Insights into Mutual Funds

Funds that display strong (weak) performance over a past period continue to do so in future periods. More importantly, Huij demonstrates that some fund…

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Changes needed to dismissal law in the US and Netherlands

This topic is central to Grace van Arkel’s dissertation 'A Just Cause for Dismissal in the United States and the Netherlands, A study on the extent of…

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Managers salute impact of Lancaster’s ‘Wilderness Thinking’

Fifty managers who experienced the Lancaster ‘learning retreat’ – a 48-hour period of individual reflection in the Lake District – reported significant…

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