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Whether changing the nature of that provision to a more personal and less business-like consultation will be what women users want remains to be seen. We expect the opportunity cost hypothesis to be most relevant for members of the traditional conservative parties, who have stronger ties to the business community. Qualitative and quantitative measures of the business environment are statistically strongly and significantly correlated with respect to their effects on business performance (ibid.). While associations are more visible, low-profile activity by individual business players has been geared towards influencing the policymaking process from within.
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