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Section of Cyprus are preparing their economy for a full-membership to the EU while Turkey, as an associate- member of the … Union since 1963 and as a part of customs union between Turkey and the EU since 1996, seems to be excluded from the next EU … Turkey different than the 11 membership candidate countries and the EU countries in terms of the ten selected macroeconomic …
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This paper examines the economic rationale of the ideas of Gladstone & Chadwick on railway regulation and the legacy of their ideas. In 1844 Gladstone proposed and implemented what we would now call price and quantity regulation whereas in 1859 Chadwick proposed competition "for the field", i.e....
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into the light in Britain during the First World War. …
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Americas and East Asia in the past two centuries. Between 1830 and 1945, labor-abundant Britain, the most advanced country … was most of East Asia. After WWII, however, with Britain’s decline and the rise of the land-abundant U.S., labor …
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The international goal for rich countries to devote 0.7% of their national income to development assistance has become a cause célèbre for aid activists and has been accepted in many official quarters as the legitimate target for aid budgets. The origins of the target, however, raise serious...
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meaning of security of supply. The following three sections deal in turn with the risks to future supply for oil, coal and …
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In examining the prospects for oil and gas supply from the GCC countries, we draw on the evidence that the supply of oil and gas from the region has been relatively reliable, notwithstanding the region’s perceived political instability. The approach taken here starts from this empirical...
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institutions, iii) a challenge within public sectors, and, iv) divorced from global governance or security issues - seen as … public sectors in many emerging countries. Finally, we suggest an empirical link between governance and security issues. …
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the owners in the management. Family firm is the most common form of business in Greece. Hence, the governance structures … explore the main aspects of CG of family-owned listed companies in Greece. For this purpose, we apply a specific CG rating … on the current state of corporate governance in Greece. Each firm is rated among the 120 total number of companies (both …
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We examine the transmission process of the policy rate to the lending and deposit rates in Greece for the period 1996 … of Greece into EMU in 2001. The bank rates become much more responsive to the policy rate in terms of impact multipliers …
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