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The Porter Hypothesis Revisited: A Literature Review of Theoretical Models and Empirical Tests
Wagner, Marcus - EconWPA - 2004
The debate on the relationship between environmental regulation and competitiveness has been a topic of discussion for a number of years now. As early as 1991, the American economist Michael E. Porter proposed that stringent environmental regulation (under the condition that it is efficient) can...
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OIL POLICY IN NIGERIA: A CRITICAL ASSESSMENT(1958-1992)
NWAOBI, DR. GODWIN CHUKWUDUM - EconWPA - 2005
OIL AS AN ENERGY PROPELLER, IS THE LARGEST INTERNATIONALLY TRADED COMMODITY THAT SHOWS HIGHLY VISIBLE INTERPLAY OF POLITICS AND ECONOMICS IN THE DETERMINATION OF ITS INVESTMENT, PRODUCTION, TRADE AND PRICING POLICIES. THIS UNIQUENESS, NO DOUBT DEMANDS A WELL ARTICULATED OIL POLICY FOR AN OIL...
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Economy of Vietnam
McCarty, Adam - EconWPA - 2001
economy was thoroughly undermined. The collapse of trading relations with the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA … the urban household services economy, which offset the increase in the numbers of unemployed. The shift to markets was … Western markets without difficulty. During the 1990s the economy of Viet Nam underwent a transformation. Structural changes …
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AN EVALUATION OF POST-INDEPENDENCE AGRICULTURAL POLICIES IN RELATION TO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA(1960 - 1987}
NWAOBI, DR. GODWIN CHUKWUDUM - EconWPA - 2005
AGRICULTURE IN ITS COMMON PARLENCE INCLUDES PRODUCTION, RESEARCH AND TRAINING IN THE FIELDS OF CROPS, FORESTRY, FISHING AND LIVESTOCK. NIGERIAN AGRICULTURE WAS CHARACTERIZED BY LOW FARM INCOMES; LOW CAPACITY LEVEL TO SATISFY FOOD AND FIBRE NEEDS OF THE COUNTRY, AND PRIMITIVE TECHNIQUES OF...
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Policy Complementarities and the Washington Consensus
Aziz, Jahangir; Wescott, Robert - EconWPA - 1999
While economists continue to debate whether individual economic policies, such as those contained in Willliamsons (1993) Washington Consensus, can help to spur growth in developing countries, this paper demonstrates that it is groups of policies that are more critical for growth. Policy...
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Does ICT Investment Matter for Growth and Labor Productivity in Transition Economies?
Piatkowski, Marcin - EconWPA - 2004
Following up on a previous paper by the same author on the contribution of ICT capital to growth and labor productivity in Poland 1995-2000, this paper extends the study to eight transition economies: Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Russia, Slovakia and Slovenia. The paper shows that...
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The Contribution of ICT Investment to Economic Growth and Labor Productivity in Poland 1995-2000
Piatkowski, Marcin - EconWPA - 2003
post-communist economy in Central and Eastern Europe and a prospective member of the EU (2004). The paper discusses the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556009
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Democracy and growth: An alternative empirical approach
Shen, Jian-Guang - EconWPA - 2002
This paper proposes a “before-and-after” approach to empirical examination of the relationship between democracy and growth. Rather than the commonly used cross-country regression method, this paper compares the economic performances of forty countries before and after they became...
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China’s Economic Growth 1978-2025: What We Know Today about China’s Economic Growth Tomorrow
Holz, Carsten A - EconWPA - 2005
China over the next two decades. Extrapolating past real GDP growth rates into the future, the size of the Chinese economy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556063
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Inequality, Growth, and Overtaking
Sugimoto, Yoshiaki - EconWPA - 2005
inequality, a less egalitarian economy follows a higher growth path in the short run, with a lower growth path in the long run …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556070