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Foreign Aid, a Blessing in Disguise. Evidence from Selected South Asian Economies
... Khan and Ahmed (2007) tried to investigate if foreign aid is a blessing or a curse for Pakistan. The study analyzed the aid-growth relation at aggregate and dis-aggregate level and used auto regressive distributed ...
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THE RETURNS OF BOTSWANA’S EQUITY MARKET ARE PREDICTABLE: IS THIS A BLESSING OR A CURSE?
... Empirical research to date has declared the returns of Botswana’s equity market (BSE) predictable. This paper investigates whether investors are taking advantage of this return predictability and examine the investments ...
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Mechanical ventilation in medical departments: a necessary evil, or a blessing in bad disguise?
... The policy changes suggested in this paper could lead to a change from a “necessary evil” situation to one that could be considered a “blessing in disguise”. Rather than refraining from intubation if there is no ...
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Natural Resources from Curse to a Blessing: Conjuring the Curse
... However since the 1960s, a robust statistical evidence based on empirical growth studies taken into account all the possible influences and interactions has showed that natural resources are less often a blessing ...
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Oil a Blessing or Curse: A Comparative Assessment of Nigeria, Norway and the United Arab Emirates
... Oil booms have brought unprecedented wealth and development to some countries while in others this has not been the case. The latter is attributed to the resource curse phenomenon which has been explained by the Dutch ...
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Are 'Village Doctors' in Bangladesh a curse or a blessing?
... To understand the issues related to shortage of health workforce and healthcare provision, this paper investigates the role of various healthcare providers in provision of health servic[r] ...
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THE BRAHMAPUTRA: AS A BLESSING OR A CURSE TO THE AGRARIAN SOCIETY OF ASSAM
... Among the largest rivers on earth in terms of discharge and sediment, Brahmaputra is intrinsic to the economic life in Assam. Brahmaputra has also been at the c[r] ...
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Are natural resource windfalls a blessing or a curse in democratic settings: a case study Ghana?
... In mapping out the dimensions of the curse, themes discussed included: natural resource abundance and economic growth; Dutch Disease and high priced economies; natural resource price vol[r] ...
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Hernia Societies—A Blessing or a Curse? Who Is Running Them? Ethical Surgeons or the Industry
... Ethical Surgeons or the Industry Robert Bendavid Shouldice Hospital, Thornhill, Ontario, Canada Email: [email protected] Received 15 April 2014; revised 14 May 2014; accepted 13 Jun[r] ...
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Facebook: a blessing or a curse for grocery stores?
... 2014 on social media, the unit of analysis consisted of the content of the Facebook pages of Tesco and Walmart and the coding units were the individual posts and comments by customers of[r] ...
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Testing of Natural Resources as Blessing or Curse to the Knowledge Economy in Arab Countries
... This paper focuses on testing if natural resources constituted a blessing or a curse to the progress of knowledge economy in Arab countries. Some of these economies are based on natural resources and mainly oil ...
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... a blessing if a country had already implemented good institutional quality before experiencing a resource boom, but turns into dependency in case of poor ...
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Sketch Out the Myth of Wisdom and Blessing of Islamic Boarding School
... a blessing may be considered an abstract concept since it is concerned with the bestowal of divine favor (Szuchewycs, 2006), it is a magical power that is unseen and ...the blessing is essentially a vehicle ...
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On the Issue of Polite Appeals and Blessings in Indian English
... says 'God is Truth'’ [19]. The author of the work R. Mehta uses the ritual formula of greeting common among Sikhs for both speech acts of greetings and leave-taking. The stereotypical response to this expression is a ...
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Globalization: Blessing or Curse for the Economy of the Developing Countries?
... Nowadays globalization is a debatable topic regarding the economic growth of the developing countries around the world. This paper tries to determine the aspects associated with this argument and explains the effects of ...
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Abraham, Israel and the Nations: The Implications of Abraham’s Blessing for the Nations
... a blessing, God will bless/curse others depending on their relationship with Abram and all the families of the earth shall be blessed (or bless themselves) through ...the blessing clause in which ...
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A Discursive Analysis of Imperatives in the Bible
... order, blessing and admonition which are considered as commands on the one hand; and dissuasion, warning, inhibition and deterrence as prohibitions on the ...
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The rise of Jobbik, populism, and the symbolic politics of illiberalism in contemporary Hungary
... The Creation of Direct Action Groups In 2007, and with the blessing of his party, Vona founded the Magyar Gárda, or Hungarian Guard, as a direct action organisation intended to “strengt[r] ...
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Some lessons for policy makers who deal with the mixed blessing of capital inflows
... To offset some or all of the monetary expansion associated with the purchase of foreign exchange, central banks have most often opted to sell Treasury bills or central bank paper-but in [r] ...
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Tapol bulletin no, 12, October 1975
... temples and churches , they will give thanks to our Gracious Lord for the blessing of independence. But at the same time, countless tens of thousands of fellow Indonesians are[r] ...
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