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SOCIO-ECONOMIC IMPLICATIONS OF COMBRAINS

DR.VSR.SUBRAMANIAM - EconWPA - 2005

of the Combrain will be to identify,plan&derive implementation methods for Basic Needs;Domestic Investment …

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Lange and Hayek Revisited: Lessons from Czech Voucher Privatization

Hanousek, Jan; Filer, Randall K. - EconWPA - 2001

A fundamental question in economics since the 1930s has been whether an administrative price system could simulate the results of perfect competition even without a true market for the means of production. The theoretical possibility of such a system has been known since the introduction of...

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Distribution of the Economic Gains of the 1990s

Parham, Dean; Barnes, Paula; Roberts, Paul; Kennett, Sharon - EconWPA - 2001

„h Australia¡¦s surge in productivity growth in the 1990s fuelled an acceleration in growth in total income and average income (income per person in Australia). ¡V Annual average income growth accelerated from 1.4 per cent in the 1970s and 1980s to 2.5 per cent in the 1990s. ¡V Faster...

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Latin American Progress under Structural Reform

Jr, Thomas M Fullerton; Sprinkle, Richard L - EconWPA - 2004

Subsequent to the economic difficulties of the 1980s, many Latin American governments reluctantly began to introduce market-oriented reform measures. In many cases, the new measures were adopted only as a means of participating in debt-relief programs such as the Brady Initiative. In no case,...

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Rosca Participation in Benin : a Commitment Issue

Dagnelie, Olivier; LeMay, Philippe - EconWPA - 2005

that individuals use their participation in a rosca as a device to discipline themselves to save money and commit against …

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A Framework of Asset-Accumulation Stages and Strategies

Beverly, Sondra; Moore, Amanda; Schreiner, Mark - EconWPA - 2001

must exceed current outflows. To meet this objective, people reallocate resources from current consumption, current leisure …, or future consumption or leisure. In the second stage (conversion), people may convert resources from liquid to illiquid …

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Financial Conditions and Investment during the Transition: Evidence from Czech Firms

Lizal, Lubomir; Svejnar, Jan - EconWPA - 2001

In this paper, we examine net investment during the early stages of transition using micro data on the population of … models of investment and test if investment behavior varies across categories of ownership and with the legal status of firms …. Our analysis of depreciation leads us to the conclusion that replacement investment displays a similar pattern in many …

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The Janus Development Strategy: Jamaica In Transition

Jones, Peter w - EconWPA - 2005

The ability to see past and present simultaneously must be of prime importance in any development scenario. This speaks to the essence of the Janus Development Strategy, whose philosophy is outlined below. .......................Janus was represented with two faces, originally one face was...

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New Capital Estimates for China

Holz, Carsten A. - EconWPA - 2005

(i) gross fixed capital formation does not equal investment, (ii) investment does not equal the value of fixed assets … newly created through investment, (iii) depreciation is an accounting measure that has no impact on changes in the …

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Does a Soft Macroeconomic Environment Induce Restructuring on the Microeconomic Level during the Transition Period? Evidence from Investment Behavior of Czech Enterprises

Lizal, Lubomir - EconWPA - 2001

The paper analyzes investment behavior of industrial enterprises in the period immediately following price and foreign … microeconomic decisions. A dynamic investment function with symmetric adjustment cost function based on the Euler equation has been … estimated. The derived and estimated investment function accounts for export sales in order to determine whether firms evaluate …

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