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Availability of Financing, Regulatory Business Costs and National Entrepreneurial Propensity
Ho, Yuen Ping; Wong, Poh Kam - EconWPA - 2005
regulatory business cost. The contribution of this paper is twofold: we compare the availability of different types of financing … in the 2002 Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, we examine the effect of availability of financing and regulatory business …-growth potential new firm formation. The availability of three types of financing sources is analysed: traditional debt financing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005134472
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Origen y evolucion de la manufactura en el interior. El caso de Bahía Blanca
Valentina, Viego - EconWPA - 2005
Bahía Blanca has been posed as the main Southern city of the country (both in population and economic terms) by various works in the field of economic geography. In particular, it has been emphasized its leading manufacturing sector (historically oriented to exports) and its role as center of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125838
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AN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE OF THE ACCOUNTING ENVIRONMENT: A GENERAL OUTLINE OF A WESTERN EUROPEAN AND NORTH AMERICAN LINKAGE
salvary, stanley c. w. - EconWPA - 2005
It is recognized that the usefulness of accounting infor mation is contingent upon its (1) neutrality, (2) relevancy, and (3) reliability. Given that all socio-economic systems are comprised of participants and institutions, it would seem that the attainment of those three qualities is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005134985
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DE-INDUSTRIALISATION
Stanners, Walter - EconWPA - 1996
The notion of de-industrialisation arises from the fact that industrial employment, having risen rapidly, is now in equally rapid decline. This paper presents the view that agriculture and industry together form, and have always formed, a logically seamless "primary" sector which from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062413
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The international diffusion of new technologies: a multi-technology analysis of latecomer advantage and global economic integration
Perkins, Richard; Neumayer, Eric - EconWPA - 2004
. To investigate these claims we use event-history analysis to estimate the determinants of diffusion speed across a large …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062437
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Functional Distribution, Land Ownership and Industrial Takeoff
Bilancini, Ennio; D'Alessandro, Simone - EconWPA - 2005
by a continuum of small markets producing distinct commodities. Following Murphy et al. (1989) we model industrialization … conditions, there is a non-monotonic relation between the distribution of land property rights and both industrialization and … land property rights can be detrimental to industrialization, ii) landownership affects the economic performance of an …
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the Transition Process in China: A theoretic and empirical Study
Pu, Chen; Chihying, Hsiao - EconWPA - 2005
In this paper we analyse the driving forces of the transition from plan to market in China. A two segments and two sectors model is constructed to take into account the particular economic situation in China during the transition process: a large agricultural sector and an industrial sector; a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556000
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Industrialization and Infant Mortality
Federman, Maya; Levine, David I. - EconWPA - 2005
early industrialization in some nations. This study examines the effects of growing manufacturing employment on infant … mortality across 274 Indonesian districts from 1985 to 1995, a time of rapid industrialization. Compared with cross … infant mortality in regions that experienced greater industrialization. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118693
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Manufacturing Firms in Developing Countries: How Well Do They Do, and Why?
Tybout, James - EconWPA - 1999
The manufacturing sectors of less developed countries (LDCs) have traditionally been relatively protected. They have also been subject to heavy regulation, much of which is biased in favor of large enterprises. Accordingly, it is often argued that manufacturers in these countries perform poorly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118709
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Economic Development and Strikes: An Examination of the Haas and Stack Model
Harvey S. James Jr. - EconWPA - 1996
of industrialization and the strike activity among its labor force. Their model is tested using data from a different …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118783