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State entrepreneurship is a policy by which productive enterprises are owned as public agencies but operated according to standard business criteria. State intervention of this kind is increasingly common in the Third World, where this policy is a response to the entrepreneurial capabilities of local private & multinational enterprise. Accounts of the interrelationship of state, local, & multinational entrepreneurship are studied & found to have theoretical shortcomings. These deficiencies are eliminated by isolating the central tenets of the explanations & deducing the generic from entrepreneurship histories. Insights emerge concerning the prospects for survival of the alliance of state, local, & multinational capital. The groundwork is laid for an in-depth study of selected political & economic determinants of state entrepreneurship. 2 Figures. Modified HA.

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Through analysis of oral history interviews and quantitative source material,this articleoffers a gendered modelofsocialmobilityinthe post-wardecades.Itarguesthatwomenbornbetweenthelate1930s and early 1950s achieved social mobility through entering postsecondary education after a period of employment, followed by occupational movement into the welfare professions. Women's mobility primarily occurred in the long 1970s, facilitated by the Wilson government's investment in the welfare state and its expansion of further education and creation of the polytechnics. This challenges the predominantly masculinised trope of the grammar school as the driver of post-war mobility.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Dedication -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- List of Abbreviations -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Tax, Transition and the State: The Case of Russia -- 3 Budget Softness and the Russian Enterprise Sector -- 4 Tax Arrears and the Romanian Enterprise Sector -- 5 Effective Tax Administration in Transition Countries -- 6 Tax Capacity and Effort in Transition Countries -- 7 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index

AbstractThe debate on whether Mexican immigrants are positively or negatively selected on education has been limited by studying immigrants in data collected only from the sending or the destination country. Using nationally representative data from Mexico that tracked migrants to the United States prospectively, we examine the education selectivity of Mexicans who immigrated to the United States from 2002 to 2005. We find that using reports of migration by remaining household members and proxy substitution of migration education underestimates migrant selectivity. Migrant men and women were positively selected within households and rural municipalities of origin but negatively selected from the national educational distribution. Differences in selectivity by size of place, as well as when considering the local or national context, means that the answer of whether immigrants are positively or negatively selected on education depends on the context considered.

I test the hypothesis advanced by Richard Easterlin and others that the importation of modern technology and prospects for economic development in the Third World are principally a function of the local population's formal schooling. According to orthodoxy, manufacturing more than any other sector should repay investment in human capital. Yet the correlation of schooling with the manufacturing sector is much lower than with the mineral sector, an enclave in colonial economies and a symbol of underdevelopment.

International audience ; In communities across the world, there is a growing need and responsibility to provide options that give people the opportunity to walk; to walk more often, to walk to more places, and to feel safe and happy while doing so. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development has created a working group on "pedestrian safety, urban space and health (PUSH)" in 2008. This group has worked on means that could be used by national governments to improve pedestrians' safety and well-being in urban space. Communication on walking and education for walking are then needed to increase number of people who safe walk in urban space. Aim of this paper is to expose strategies and content of communication and education on walking. Targets and contents for communication and education have been defined and best practices in OECD countries have been collected (professional, road users, pedestrians - especially younger and older ones -). The main results proved in the paper refer to the figures of several topics and targets for communication and education and to the solutions implemented to improve pedestrian communication and education in several OECD Countries.