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The ability to see past and present simultaneously must be of prime importance in any development scenario. This speaks to the essence of the Janus Development Strategy, whose philosophy is outlined below. .......................Janus was represented with two faces, originally one face was...
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linking Domestic Investment with Domestic Saving Potential (Entrepreneurial Background). Both these Circles are to be …
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the migrant and his family, treating remittances as an endogenous variable in the migration system. Behind this model is … present or future consumption of remittances. The model has two purposes: estimate the relative significance of behavioural …
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investigating the impact of remittances on consumption, investment, imports and output. It estimates short and long-run multiplier … effects of exogenous shocks of remittances, with data from five Mediterranean countries. The analysis reveals a uniform … changes, in the sense that the good done to growth by rising remittances is not as great as the bad done by falling …
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This study examines the determinants of worker’s remittances. Variance decompositions, impulse response functions and … Granger causality tests derived from a vector error correction model are used to test if remittances are affected by the … Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Mexico and the U.S. are used. The results indicate that remittances respond more to changes in …
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of schooling among applicants, as a result of the positive selection at the review step the resulting migrants are …-selection that occurs at the application stage, and the resulting migrants are negatively selected in this dimension. …
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The bank-based financial systems of Germany and Japan were considered most conducive to growth in the 1980s. After the Japanese stagnation of the 1990s and the most recent slump in Germany, the conviction that the market-based Anglo-American financial systems are a prerequisite for a dynamic...
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(i) gross fixed capital formation does not equal investment, (ii) investment does not equal the value of fixed assets … newly created through investment, (iii) depreciation is an accounting measure that has no impact on changes in the …
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Australian, state and territory regimes came under review for the Commission’s inquiry into native vegetation and biodiversity regulations. The Commission’s preliminary findings were released for public comment in December 2003. It found that the cost of farm regulations could be reduced if...
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This paper shows the impact that investment in infrastructure may have on the efficiency of agricultural products …
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