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Global Insecurity,Transparency and Sustainable Development:African Challenges
NWAOBI, GODWIN - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
institutions and governance to provide citizen security, justice and jobs is crucial to break cycles of violence while stimulating … recommends the need for restoring confidence, transforming institutions(procedures), providing specialized assistance, acting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112282
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Okun's Law and Jobless Growth
Khemraj, Tarron; Madrick, Jeff; Semmler, Willi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
This policy note tries to understand the slow job recovery in the United States as the economy exists a recession. We show that the time-varying Okun coefficient has declined since the early 1990s, thus being consistent with the observation of jobless growth. This finding contrasts with other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011110857
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Demografia, Occupazione e Produttività in Italia e nelle Regioni italiane [terza parte del progetto "Il presente e il futuro del Pay-Go in Italia, Europa e Us"]
SALERNO, Nicola Carmine - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The circular interplay between demography-employment-productivity-PayGo is investigated for Italy and Italian geographical repartitions. Looking forward to the mid-long run, the paper offers simulations of the burden each effective worker and each active citizen will have to bear to finance via...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112563
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Demografia, Occupazione e Produttività in Europa e Us [quarta parte del progetto "Il presente e il futuro del Pay-Go in Italia, Europa e Us"]
SALERNO, Nicola Carmine - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The circular interplay between demography-employment-productivity-PayGo is investigated for Europe and Us. Looking forward to the mid-long run, the paper offers simulations of the burden each effective worker and each active citizen will have to bear to finance via pay-as-you-go public health...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112836
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The priorities of the EU budget for 2009
Duduiala-Popescu, Lorena - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
The priorities of the EU budget for 2009 are: economic growth, employment, climate, strengthening security and safety of European citizens, the social dimension of the EU. Divided into areas, the EU provides for sustainable development, regional education and research 45.9 billion for natural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005619759
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African Development,Partnership and Rationality Challenge:An Exposition
NWAOBI, GODWIN - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Since 1950s, most African nations have gained independence from their colonial powers. Fortunately, independence has brought many changes to these nations and these include multi-party democratic government and western education systems. Unfortunately, the Africa’s economy is the least...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259767
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Transition in FSU and sub-Saharan countries: The role of institutions
Laurila, Juhani - EconWPA - 2002
institutions also influences economic growth and the ability of a country to attract trade and foreign direct investment …. Consequently, when institutions of FSU and sub-Saharan countries develop to the point they become attractive to traders and … commit credibly to increasing capacities of their state institutions with a view to supporting property-based rule of law and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076830
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Explaining the two-way causality between inequality and democratization through corruption and concentration of power
Eren, Ozlem - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2002
Corruption increases inequality in the society (Gupta et al, 1998) by reducing economic growth, biasing the tax system, reducing the amount and the efficiency of spending on key areas for human capital formation. Mohtadi and Roe (2002) and Mohtadi and Agarwhal (2002) argue that democracy first...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008695054
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Understanding Long-Run African Growth: Colonial Institutions or Colonial Education? Evidence from a New Data Set
Bolt, Jutta; Bezemer, Dirk - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Long-term growth in developing countries has been explained in four frameworks: ‘extractive colonial institutions … greater stability over time, than instrumented measures for extractive institutions. We therefore suggest that the impact of … the disease environment on African long-term growth runs through a human capital channel rather than an extractive-institutions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005790198
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Essays in Development and Transition Economics
Teksoez, Sitki Utku - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
, institutions and growth linkages and subjective well-being in transition countries. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008520738