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The Road out of Crisis and the Policy Choices Facing Russia

Freeman, Alan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

today, combined with an industrial policy whose centre is human development – forging and nurturing a talented and creative …

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Culture, Labour, and Resources: Principles of a Practical Alternative Growth Path

Freeman, Alan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This paper was due to be presented to the 2013 conference of the World Association for Political Economy, in Florianopolis, Brasil. In the event, the author was unable to attend. The paper summarises the main conclusions of ten years of research into the Creative Industries in London and the UK,...

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Investing In Civilization

Freeman, Alan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

This paper asks whether, and how, the state can solve the present crisis. The method of enquiry is to analyze what it did in the two comparable crises of 1893 and 1929. In each case, a prolonged and structural slowdown in the world economy was followed by financial crisis, a period of turmoil...

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Creating markets for ecosystem services

Murtough, Greg; Aretino, Barbara; Matysek, Anna - EconWPA - 2002

Ecosystem services are the functions performed by ecosystems that lead to desirable environmental outcomes, such as air and water purification, drought and flood mitigation, and climate stabilisation. Markets rarely exist for them. This study examines how newly defined property rights have been...

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Creating Markets for Biodiversity: A Case Study of Earth Sanctuaries Ltd

Aretino, Barbara; Holland, Paula; Peterson, Deborah; … - EconWPA - 2001

This papers examines the activities and operations of the first publicly listed company in Australia with wildlife conservation as its primary goal. Earth Sanctuaries Ltd (ESL) is the first publicly listed company in Australia with wildlife conservation as its primary goal. Its focus to date is...

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Cost Sharing for Biodiversity Conservation: A Conceptual Framework

Aretino, Barbara; Holland, Paula; Matysek, Anna; … - EconWPA - 2001

„h Many resource users undertake actions that conserve biodiversity. If, however, there were public demand for more conservation than would be provided voluntarily by the private sector alone, there are two broad principles for determining who should bear the costs ¡X ¡¥impacter pays¡¦ or...

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The Firms Speak: What the World Business Environment Survey Tells Us about Constraints on Private Sector Development

Batra, Geeta; Kaufmann, Daniel; Stone, Andrew H. W. - EconWPA - 2004

investment can be measured, analyzed, and compared across countries, and that governance is key to the business environment and … of the Firms from the World Business Environment Survey”, and based on a chapter in “Pathways Out of Poverty: Private … the World Business Environment Survey (WBES). It shows that important dimensions for the climate of business operation and …

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Governance and the City: An Empirical Exploration into Global Determinants of Urban Performance

Kaufmann, Daniel; Leautier, Frannie; Mastruzzi, Massimo - EconWPA - 2004

We contribute to the field of urban governance and globalization through an empirically-based exploration of … indicators of globalization (at the country and city level), city governance, city performance (access and quality of … framework and a set of hypotheses, and then test them econometrically. The findings suggest that good governance and …

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The Inequality of Influence

Hellman, Joel; Kaufmann, Daniel - EconWPA - 2003

Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey (BEEPS) conducted among 6,500 firms in 27 transition countries. We refer to the …

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Far From Home: Do Foreign Investors Import Higher Standards of Governance in Transition Economies?

Hellman, Joel S.; Jones, Geraint; Kaufmann, Daniel - EconWPA - 2003

Based on the Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey (BEEPS) of firms in transition countries, which … of governance standards; ii) in misgoverned settings, FDI firms may magnify the problems of state capture and procurement …

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