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Towards an Understanding of the Phases of Goodwill Accounting in Four Western Capitalist Countries: From Stakeholder Model to Shareholder Model
Ding, Yuan; Richard, Jacques; Stolowy, Hervé - HAL - 2008
The objective of this paper is to illustrate that the change in shareholders' attitude towards firms (from stakeholder model to shareholder model) influences the accounting treatments of goodwill. Our study is based on four countries (Great Britain, the United States, Germany, and France) and...
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Sharpening the Bank's Capacity to Support the Housing Sector in Latin America and the Caribbean: Background Paper for the Implementation of the Social Development Strategy
Rojas, Eduardo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2006
The Bank expanded its housing finance activities in the 1990s, shifting its support toward sector reforms that increase the capacity of housing finance and delivery mechanisms to cater to the needs of low-income households. The present publication examines Bank experience in housing, draws...
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Facing the Challenges of Informal Settlements in Urban Centers: The Re-urbanization of Manaus, Brazil
Magalhães, Fernanda; Rojas, Eduardo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2007
The search for solutions to urban and social problems prompted by informal settlements is gaining importance in the development agenda of most large cities in Latin America. Nearly 60 percent of the population lives in informal, often centrally located settlements.
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Revista Integración & Comercio: Año 7 : No. 19 : Julio-diciembre, 2003 Title: Integration & Trade Journal: Volume 7 : No. 19 : July-December, 2003
Acea, Cristina; Sanguinetti, Pablo; Botto, Mercedes; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2004
La Revista Integración & Comercio del BID incluye artículos referidos a las distintas manifestaciones del proceso de integración en América Latina y el Caribe, a la integración hemisférica y, también, a los procesos con igual orientación que se llevan a cabo en otras partes del mundo....
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The Social Spatial Segregation in the Cities of Latin America
Sabatini, Francisco - Inter-American Development Bank - 2006
The cities offer Latin America and the Caribbean their best opportunity for economic and social development. Aside from concentrating on more than two thirds of the population, it is estimated that urban activities will generate more than 75 percent of the expected growth of the Gross Domestic...
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Why is the gender wage gap in Japan so large compared with France? : a comparison based on decomposition analysis
Hori, Haruhiko; Nohara, Hiroatsu - HAL - 2006
countries : France, an industrialized country where the disparities between sexes are outstandingly small, and Japan, where they … are particularly large. It is also proposed to explore the reasons why the male/female wage gap is so large in Japan in … markets in Japan and France. When it comes to the gender wage gaps, it is necessary to take the general structure of wages and …
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Revitalizing the Jamaican Economy: Policies for Sustained Growth
Thomas, Desmond; Artana, Daniel; Zavala, Emilio Osambela; … - Inter-American Development Bank
Revitalizing the Jamaican Economy: Policies for Sustained Growth aims to improve our understanding of the constraints to social and economic development in Jamaica. It also proposes practical solutions to overcome some of those problems. This book is a collection of studies commissioned by the...
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Revitalizing the Jamaican Economy: Policies for Sustained Growth
Artana, Daniel; Zavala, Emilio Osambela; Thomas, Desmond; … - Inter-American Development Bank
Revitalizing the Jamaican Economy: Policies for Sustained Growth aims to improve our understanding of the constraints to social and economic development in Jamaica. It also proposes practical solutions to overcome some of those problems. This book is a collection of studies commissioned by the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010895467
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International Initiatives to Bring Stability to Financial Integration
Fernández-Arias, Eduardo; Hausmann, Ricardo - Inter-American Development Bank - 1999
Financial liberalization and integration have generated disappointing results. They were supposed to set up a win-win situation: capital would flow from capital-abundant, low-return, aging industrial countries to capital-scarce, high-return, young emerging countries. Growth in receiving...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010944233
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Achieving Stability in Latin American Financial Markets in the Presence of Volatile Capital Flows
Rojas-Suárez, Liliana; Weisbrod, Steven R. - Inter-American Development Bank - 1995
This paper considers whether reserve requirements have been effective in controlling excessive liquidity growth. It … expansion of risky bank credit that often accompanies excessive liquidity expansion. …
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