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Transition in FSU and sub-Saharan countries: The role of institutions

Laurila, Juhani - EconWPA - 2002

This study compares transition processes in countries of Central and Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union (FSU) and sub-Saharan Africa. By widening the scope from most- to least-developed transition economies, the study establishes the importance of a strong state with evolved institutional...

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Context Matters – Rethinking the Resource Curse in Sub-Saharan Africa

Basedau, Matthias - EconWPA - 2005

Natural resources in sub-Saharan Africa suffer from a bad reputation. Oil and diamonds, particularly, have been blamed for a number of Africa’s illnesses such as poverty, corruption, dictatorship and war. This paper outlines the different areas and transmission channels of how this so-called...

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Institutions and Agricultural Productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa

Fulginiti, Lilyan E.; Perrin, Richard K.; Yu, Bingxin - EconWPA - 2005

Agricultural productivity in 41 Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) countries from 1960 to 1999 is examined by estimating a semi-nonparametric Fourier production frontier. Over the four decades the estimated rate of productivity change was 0.83% per year, although the average rate from 1985-99 was a strong...

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Uncertainty, Trade, and Capital Flows in Sub-Saharan Africa

Cuddington, John T.; Liang, Hong; Lu, Shihua - EconWPA - 1996

In most African economies, both agricultural production and the terms- of-trade are highly uncertain. This paper re-examines the implications of such uncertainty for the optimal mix of production and trade under alternative assumptions about international capital flows. The ultimate objective is...

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Stable pricing in multiproduct natural monopoly (in French)

Iehlé, Vincent - EconWPA - 2004

We provide some existence results of stable pricings for natural monopoly as defined in the theory of contestable markets. The main addings are based on the assumption of separated markets and the possibilities of entries. We borrow tools from cooperative game theory. Following the work of...

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Audit externe sur la dette globale du Canton du Valais / External audit of the overall debt of the Swiss canton of Valais

Soguel, Nils; Iogna-Prat, Simon - EconWPA - 2005

of the sustainability of the Valais’ public debt in order to determine if its level is excessive or not. …

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Trade Liberalization and Industrial Pollution in Mexico: Lessons for the FTAA"

Gallagher, Kevin - EconWPA - 2001

As the barriers to hemispheric trade and integration are lowered, it will be asked whether we will we hear the "giant sucking sound" of poorer nations luring U.S. and Canadian firms south to take advantage of low wages and lax environmental regulations? Or, will Latin American nations passively...

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Finding a path in the sustainability jungle. A framework for corporate action.

Seelos, Christian - EconWPA - 2005

Collective concerns about sustainable development and proposals about how to achieve sustainability have produced a … sustainability; and yet the lack of clear definitions has left a vacuum of corporate guidance. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR …) has become a synonym for corporate action towards sustainability, but companies continue to struggle to understand how to …

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ECONOMIC / ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEM INTERACTION

Vildosola, Luis - EconWPA - 2003

of sustainability while establishing a consistent system of units for both the solar flux and economic transformation … processes. Conditions for a virtuous cycle dynamic in relation to sustainability is expressed, adhering to non …

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Modelo para valorar la atribución de Sustentabilidad

Vildosola, Luis - EconWPA - 2004

The identification is made of those conditions by which it is possible to generate synergy or mutually enforcing relations between economic development and environment conservation with the perspective of a systems entropy flow limits. Monetary and fiscal policies are the framework of structural...

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