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Un endowment es un fondo de capitalización cuyo fin es proveernos establemente de recursos financieros, con el fin de destinarlos a necesidades institucionales o familiares. Se invierte de tal modo que no pierda valor...

Whereas traditional explanations of differences in long-run paths of development across the Americas generally point to the significance of differences in national heritage or religion, we highlight the relevance of star...

Against a backdrop of growing environmental awareness and the need to mitigate climate change impacts, urban spatial planning and management policies inspired by European sustainable development recommendations are gaini...

This study explores the potential of cultural tourism as a strategic driver for sustainable urban development in Hail City, Saudi Arabia, emphasizing its alignment with the objectives of Saudi Vision (2030). Situated at ...

This paper analyses the factors determining inward foreign direct investment, particularly the role of natural endowments and economic and political characteristics of the host country. It expands on th...

This paper examines the sources of wage differentials among castes in Nepal, a country which had, until 1963, an age-old caste-based social division of labour. We use an extended Oaxaca decomposition model with occupatio...

This Campbell systematic review examines the effectiveness of farmer field schools in improving intermediate outcomes (such as knowledge and pesticide use) and final outcomes (such as agricultural yields, incomes and emp...

In the modern era of higher education in the United States, core universities-particularly those located in urban centers-have increasingly assumed the role of anchor institutions. While examples of anchor institution ac...

The aim of this paper is to investigate the effects of competing trade regimes on Serbian trade with its most significant (traditional) partners, like European Union and CEFTA 2006 signatories, and other untraditional tr...

The synergistic development of ecotourism, nature conservation and community well-being is central to the sustainable management of ecologically sensitive tourism destinations. Thus, this study investigates this nexus in...

Abstract The importance of character skills has been widely recognized as a crucial component of human capital over the past decades. However, effective strategies for cultivating these skills remain an area of ongoing e...

We apply a variant of the microeconometric decomposition methodology proposed in Bourguignon et al. (1998) to assess the relevance of various factors that affected inequality in the period 1986-1998 in the Greater Buenos...

Aplicamos una variante de la metodología microeconométrica de la descomposición propuesta en Bourguignon et al. (1998) para determinar la importancia de los varios factores que afectaron la desigualdad en el período ...

Este trabajo utiliza una base de datos longitudinales única sobre zonas rurales en El Salvador (1995-2001) para investigar las fuentes principales de la persistencia y variabilidad del ingreso. Primero, proponemos un ma...

Subjects / keywords: Endowments; Endowment of research; Electronic books

Subjects / keywords: Endowments; Endowment of research; Electronic books

Subjects / keywords: Endowments; Cantabria (Spain); Teaching; History; Electronic books

Subjects / keywords: endowments, islamic finance, charitable work; Social Sciences: Finance

Subjects / keywords: Social responsibility of business; Colombia; Case studies; Endowments; Community development; Peace-building; Electronic books

Subjects / keywords: Social Sciences: Finance