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It has been said that insurance is the last of the financial services to accept radical change (Denney [1995-1996]). Yet there has been a fundamental shift in the geographic location and in the organization of the reinsurance industry in the last six years (Chichilnisky [19966]). Global...
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Two major trends in the world economy are international migration and environmental degradation. The object of the paper is to analyze the connection between these two trends, which have generally been analyzed in isolation. Here we represent a world economy in which the exploitation of natural...
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environment facing the developing countries and, in particular, the issues of export-led strategies and North-South trade in …
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An important problem in environmental economics arises from te irreversibility of consuming or destroying certain resources. Extractive resources like oil are a clear example. Even for environmental resources the same seems to be true in a number of environmental cases, for example biodiversity,...
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Current changes in Latin America include the abandonment of the economic pattern of import substitution, a growing opening of the national economies, a continental wave of political democratization, an apparent economic recovery from the "lost decade" (the 1980s), a growing social polarization,...
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reliability. The applications were to problems of population growth , the environment, energy, and alternative economic …
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environment). …
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The concept of basic needs is today at the center of many discussions about development and the international order. Some international organizations are rethinking their prior evaluation of development policies based largely on aggregate economic output, in particular, the welfare of the very...
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out of which belong to Muslim world. The governance of the political and corporate institutions, higher education and … technology readiness are classified as significant factors of the business competitiveness. It was concluded that governance … ultimately the sustainable economic development by improvement in the higher education and institutional governance. …
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countries in different ways. It was recommended that Muslim countries should improve their governance of the corporate and …
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