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KNOWLEDGE AND TECHNOLOGICAL INTERACTION:A POLICY ORIENTED STUDY OF THE AFRICAN UNION

NWAOBI, GODWIN CHUKWUDUM - EconWPA - 2003

POWERED BY THE DEVELOPMENTS IN NEW TECHNOLOGY APPLICATIONS, THE WORLD IS MOVING RAPIDLY TOWARDS KNOWLEDGE … ELECTRONICALLY AND IN INTERDEPENDENT RELATIONSHIPS. KNOWLEDGE, EDUCATION AND TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS PRESENT OPPORTUNITIES FOR … IS EMPOWERING IN THE 21ST CENTURY, IT IS THE ACQUISITION OF KNOWLEDGE AND THE CREATION OF TECHNOLOGICAL CAPACITY FOR THE …

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The Impact of HIV/AIDS on Social Safety Nets: What Can the Caribbean Expect?

Theodore, Karl; Foucade, Althea Dianne La - EconWPA - 2001

By the end of 1999 HIV/AIDS was present in at least 200 countries and approximately 34.3 million people were living with the disease, 5.3 million of whom had been infected in that year alone (WHO 2000). Approximately 21.8 million persons had died from AIDS by 2000 and countries where life...

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Paying paper by paper

Matthiasson, Thorolfur - EconWPA - 2003

Icelandic university teachers, the Ministry of Finance and the University of Iceland have been conducting an interesting experiment by changing the form of remuneration of university teachers in a fundamental way. This paper accounts for the development of university teachers salaries the last...

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Transition in Regional Capitals along the Volga

Melo, Martha de; Ofer, Gur; Yossifov, Plamen - EconWPA - 2003

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As the People Want It, Blueprint for a New Confederation

Knutsen, John F - EconWPA - 2004

Presents a complete and detailed constitutional framework applying the rational self-interest model and market mechanisms to intra and inter- governmental behaviour and collective decisions. In particular, the paper presents an enabling mechanism for the creation, adjustment and dissolution of...

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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 countries’ social and overall spending as well as their tax rates on labor, consumption and capital. Accounting for potential endogeneity of the regressors, the results show that...

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Do gasoline prices converge in a unified Europe with non- harmonized tax rates?

Dreher, Axel; Krieger, Tim - EconWPA - 2004

The paper presents univariate and panel unit root tests for gasoline and oil price convergence over the last decade. We test for the absolute versus relative version of the LOOP and estimate the speed of convergence as well as its development over time. Our results show that the absolute version...

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Strategic Institutional Choice: Voters, States, and Congressional Term Limits

Lopez, Edward J.; Jewell, R. Todd - EconWPA - 2005

This paper demonstrates that states’ decisions on limiting congressional terms are empirically determined by measures of relative political influence in Congress. States’ choices on term limits are quantified as a multiple-categorical variable that reflects variation in the stringency of...

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The Dynamics of Municipal Fiscal Adjustment

Buettner, Thiess; Wildasin, David E. - EconWPA - 2003

The dynamic fiscal policy adjustment of local jurisdictions is investigated empirically using a panel of more than 1000 U.S.~municipalities over a quarter of a century. Distinguishing own revenue, grants, expenditures, and debt service, the analysis is carried out using a vector error-correction...

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POLITICS AND INTERJURISDICTIONAL TRANSFERS: THE ROMANIAN CASE

Mutascu, Mihai Ioan; Dima, Bogdan - EconWPA - 2005

this paper represents a continuation of a previous paper where we demonstrated the “abnormal” behavior that local authority from Romania is manifesting regarding the subventions received from the central budget. In accord with public choice theory, exist an “affinity” of a social group -...

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