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Emergence d’une profession comptable libérale : le cas du Maroc

OMARI, Sami El; SABOLY, Michèle - EconWPA - 2005

The purpose of this article is to study the birth and the evolution of accountancy profession and bodies in Morocco. The results show that accountants attempt to monopolize the market for accounting and audit services. National and historical specificities are highlighted.

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The Long Walk to School: International education goals in historical perspective

Clemens, Michael A. - EconWPA - 2004

Raising school enrollment, like economic development in general, takes a long time. This is partly because, as a mountain of empirical evidence now shows, economic conditions and slowly-changing parental education levels determine children's school enrollment to a greater degree than education...

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The History of Tipping - From Sixteenth-Century England to United States in the 1910s

Azar, Ofer H. - EconWPA - 2003

have no feelings and do not care about social norms. This article reviews the early history of tipping and offers an …

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INCOME CONVERGENCE DURING THE DISINTEGRATION OF THE WORLD ECONOMY 1919-39

Milanovic, Branko - EconWPA - 2003

Some economists have argued that the process of disintegration of the world economy between the two World Wars led to income divergence between the countries. This is in keeping with the view that economic integration leads to income convergence. The paper shows that the view that the period...

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The Influence of Globalization on Taxes and Social Policy – an Empirical Analysis for OECD Countries

Dreher, Axel - EconWPA - 2003

Using panel regression for the period 1970-2000 the paper analyzes whether globalization has influenced the OECD … endogeneity of the regressors, the results show that globalization (measured by an index covering 23 variables) did not generally … decrease the leeway for independent economic policy. Globalization even increased implicit tax rates on capital (as calculated …

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Is Islam really a development blockade? 12 predictors of development, including membership in the Organization of Islamic Conference, and their influence on 14 indicators of develo...

TAUSCH, Arno - EconWPA - 2005

. Our three-fold empirical understanding of the process of globalization – reliance on foreign savings, MNC penetration and …

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GLOBALIZATION AND GOALS: Does soccer show the way?

Milnaovic, Branko - EconWPA - 2003

in the national teams’ performances. The empirical examples from the history of the European Champions’ League and the … foreign clubs. This provides an example as how forces of efficiency but also inequality unleashed by globalization can be …

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A TALE OF TWO “GLOBALIZATIONS”: CAPITAL FLOWS FROM RICH TO POOR IN TWO ERAS OF GLOBAL FINANCE

Schularick, Moritz - EconWPA - 2005

globalization. The paper extends recent research on the developmental effects of international financial integration, long …-term trends in capital mobility and “globalization in historical perspective”. Analyzing the patterns of international financial … a central element of 19th century financial globalization, but plays only a minor role today. The Lucas paradox of …

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The Empire Effect: Country Risk in the First Age of Globalization, 1880-1913

Ferguson, Niall; Schularick, Moritz - EconWPA - 2005

conclude that these findings have important implications for the current globalization debate: lacking jurisdictional …

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Uneven geographies of organizational practice: explaining the cross-national transfer and adoption of ISO 9000

Neumayer, Eric; Perkins, Richard - EconWPA - 2004

associated with a high number of certificates. We conclude that globalization has increased the mobility of organizational …

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